Yeah, it was kind of silly for us to believe Zimbabwe's arrogant president, Robert Mugabe, was going to leave office without a fight, but we were going by what the "experts" said. Now, of course, the "experts" say that Mugabe and his party, ZANU-PF, will continue squabbling for control of the presidency in the likely event that last Friday's election results show that neither he nor his main opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai, claimed a majority of the votes. “ZANU-PF is ready for a runoff,” Mugabe's deputy information minister told the press. “We are ready for a resulting victory.” According to a source close to ZANU-PF, who spoke to the New York Times under condition of anonymity, one reason the party is so confident about its chances in a runoff is because it's fully prepared to brutalize any voter intent on standing in its way:
… Mr. Mugabe … met Tuesday evening first with the chiefs of military and intelligence and then with top members of his cabinet and the party presidium.
“They urged him to go to the bush,” the [source] said, meaning that in a runoff the party would employ tactics of intimidation and bloodshed that had worked well in earlier campaigns, especially in rural areas that could be closed off to opposition candidates.
Kinda makes all this "supercaucus" stuff a bit more tolerable, huh?
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If things are as bad as we read about,the people of Zimbabwe are going to vote for the politican who they believe will bring jobs and put food in their stomachs.
The UK government sabotaged the economy because he dared to attempt to redistribute prime lands to the Black populace. These prime lands are owned by British expatriates, who got them free from the Crown prior to independence.
PM Tony Blair promised to run Mugabe out of power, so he cut of the economic lifeblood of the country.
He had the the monetary institutions and other trading countries stop extending credit and purchasing imports, the economic horror was all brought about by the UK.
@ TruthTeller you are right, the British have a hand in the turmoil that is unfolding in Zimbabwe, however Mugabe has a responsibility to his people. Brutalizing and butchering innocent, women, men and children just to stay in power are the moves of an arrogant and sadistic dictator.
On a side note Mugabe is currently harboring the exiled former Ethiopian leader Mengistu Hile Miriam who was notorious for mascaraing hundreds of Somalis, Eritreans and Ethiopians - Mengistu has a new position he is in charge of training Zimbabwe's military to inflict the same tactics of torture and warfare that he inflicted on his victims.
So yes we can blame it on the the British, but there is something to be said about these African leaders that in my opinion are at times worst than their former colonizers.
@ Truthteller
We all know this. I'm from the UK via Africa-which I still go to.
It's hard because we are such a complexed continent that should've never been colonized. We were not equipped for the way Westerners were living their lives-so they fucked it up. We would've come up in our way that went with how our land is and it's environment.
But Africa should know this by now that you can't trust the countries who put you in this mess already! As if England would do anything against Mugabe? He hasn't got oil!
Africa depresses me. Gonna do some work there but….phew…