The Zimbabwean Election

Yeah, Mugabe and his ZANU-PF thugs are a disgrace to justice. This is a good example of why government must always be held to strict limitations.
 
The Mugabe elections made a complete farce of democracy, disguised as a coup d'état.

Absolutely shameful...I hope he's booed and ignored by other leaders at whatever council he goes to next.
 
One of Mugabe's former right hand men lives in Didsbury. He was a police officer in Zimbabwe but after a couple of years serving he got to see the corruption of the regime and asked to quit. He was told he wasn't allowed to quit becuse of what he knew. He was later allowed to leave Zimbabwe on the pretense that he was coming to England to earn certain qualifications but he was told he had to return afterwards. He did return and he setup the MDC in opposition to Mugabe, he eventually had to flee the country for his life. He regularly recieved beatings from Mugabe's men but he recieved a tip off that he had been placed on Mugabe's hit list and was the number one target so on the day he found that out he left everything and fled back to Brritain.

He lives about 10 mins walk from my house, I've seen him but never spoken to him, all of what I know comes from the local news and people I know a lad who lives on the same street as him. He went through hell trying to achieve justice and failed, fortunately his familly got out at a later date unharmed.
 
Pupik
The Mugabe elections made a complete farce of democracy, disguised as a coup d'état.

Absolutely shameful...I hope he's booed and ignored by other leaders at whatever council he goes to next.
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The irony of him appearing at the UN Food Council was huge.

Change in Zimbabwe won't occur within, the Zanu-PF are too powerful for the MDC and the other oppositions. Why I think it is paramount that international action is taken, I know that is very unlikely to happen given what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan, though differing circumstances.

I have quite a strong feeling about this given the connections with Cricket, but the Asian bloc Cricket boards don't care about basic human rights. Despite it being proven that the Zimbabwean Cricket Union president, Peter Chingoka, has political links to the Zanu-PF and that the ZCU has financial irregularities (Guess what those are?, the Asian Cricket boards still said it wasn't a moral issue! Yes, because there is nothing immoral about funding a terrorist!

I feel so much for people who don't have the wanders of our democracy, but Africa as a whole just can't cope with it. In fact, seems only the 'Western' countries can deal with democracy.
 
Sureshot
I feel so much for people who don't have the wanders of our democracy, but Africa as a whole just can't cope with it. In fact, seems only the 'Western' countries can deal with democracy.
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Well, I do believe that is selling some parts of Africa short. I do recall a time in which Kenya was a guiding light to a lot of the continent, and you certainly could make an arguement in the favor of South Africa (post-Apartheid) as well. But nevertheless, certainly, states not of the European decent have had some issues. Possibly the only exceptions to that rule being parts of South America. But nine times out of ten, the "success" that are non-White generally are propped-up by the US or the UK.
 
What a mess: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/18/zimbabwe

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Of course, this image is 4 months old. Now, it's probably worth 5 cents.
 
If I'm reading the wikipedia page on the least valuable currencies, 1 US dollar is now worth over 600 billion Zimbabwean dollars....!
 
And oh the horror when the stock market here in the States dropped nearly 2000 points within a couple months. Zimbabwe has gone from relatively wealthy to literally nothing in a couple months. I don't even know how that could happen over here, but it probably could if something wild happened.
 
YSSMAN
But hey! At least oil is cheaper, right? RIGHT???
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The only oil they can afford is what their skin produces. ... Unless they have hundreds of thousands of dollars.
 
Keef
And oh the horror when the stock market here in the States dropped nearly 2000 points within a couple months. Zimbabwe has gone from relatively wealthy to literally nothing in a couple months. I don't even know how that could happen over here, but it probably could if something wild happened.
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It's been over a longer period than that, Keef. Their economy has been in freefall for the best part of a couple of years. The slide started with the farm reclaiming thing. If you can't produce any food, your economy will hit the bottom quicker than a torpedoed ship.

I still find it abhorrent that we import food from them. Only today I saw a pack of sugar snaps in the greengrocers from Zimbabwe.

Omnis
Unless they have hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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American dollars, obviously. Mugabe has made pretty much the whole urbanised population trillionaires.

It won't end any time soon.
 
Omnis
The only oil they can afford is what their skin produces. ... Unless they have hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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That was a failed joke on my behalf.

My apologies to everyone.
 

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