Comments on: Silence is shameful

By: robert

robert — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:44:58 +0000

I am hoping Mugabe’s days are fewer thantheywere last week. Quite how he will be ousted is anybodies guess but I hope that any groundswell form the opposition will convince Bob’s ardent supporters that they have been wrong to support him.

How can they still justify him being in control of a country he has destroyed? They must be blind and deaf to it all and just as meglomaniac as he is to not be concerned for their future.

He is pure evil. Africa’s Hitler. And the sooner he is gone the better for all Zimbabweans and at long last Africa will be rid of the last true communist dinosaur it has left.

The downfall of communism was Bob’s ruin. He lost his financial and political support systems. He must have felt lonely! Do I care? Not!

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:50:04 +0000

I agree with everything that has been said. I feel very sad and angry about Zimbabwe under Mugabe. I first went there when it was still Rhodesia and then later when it was doing reasonably well in Mugabe’s early days. I thought it was an extraordinarily beautiful country, particularly Zimbabwe ruins, the game parks and the eastern hills. It also had a legacy of a relatively modern capital city to build on. One of the things that Mugabe has played on is British colonial guilt and that the UK is behind the opposition movement. This has hamstrung our ability to speak out openly. But it is wrong and his behaviour is evil.

By: Jennifer Cascadia

Jennifer Cascadia — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:35:09 +0000

Cultural perceptions stop at the level where our physical bodies revolt at the punishment that it being dealt. At that level, we are all simply human.

By: Rachie

Rachie — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:53:15 +0000

Hi Susy – yes, it’s often confusing trying to sort out how my cultural perceptions colour my view of where I’m living! I agree with Dom though, that in terms of moral views, I think a great many people here see what Mugabe is doing is dreadful, and feel deeply for the people that are suffering under him. I don’t think there can be any other view of what Mugabe is doing to Zimbabwe than to be appalled.

Jack – I think you’re right. It will be on his terms. I hate to think of what might happen.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:54:10 +0000

I’m a Namibian who are appaled by what is going on in Zim. It is, in my humble opinion, about losing face. SADC leaders, old and new, have hailed Mugabe as a great African when he took farms from whites and distributed it amongst his cronies. They can’t now start to criticise him. I think it is the end for him as this sort of thing (violence and protests) was a common ocurence in the 1980’s when the apartheid government here and in SA saw its behind. I also think the oposition movement have now greater financial backing and are hell bend on pushing Bob out. He’ll still go on his terms though.

By: Dom

Dom — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:59:37 +0000

Sure I’m a first world person, and my personal circumstances are very different to people in Nam and Zim. I also have only limited experience of Africa. But … beating up political opponents is wrong, raping young girls is wrong and so many other things Mugabe has done are just as wrong. As a first worlder, what justifiable change in perspective must I make to view the abuse of ordinary Africans in this way as ok?

By: Susy

Susy — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:07:01 +0000

Rach- I understand your frustration…: seeing the situation in Zim through Western eyes, we are always going to take a morally different view, than that of a neighbouring African state. Your analogy of the, ‘ Its his business’ chimes very true.. It must be trying oftentimes to live in a place with such massive contradictions. Seeing a 3rd world country through 1st world eyes, I mean….