President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is 89 and running for another term.

[likesfish]

British contribution in terms of aid to Zimbabwe stood at a half billion pounds since independence. Of this total, £47 million was targeted for land reform, and approximately £100 million was budgetary support which could have been used for land reform.
From wikkipedia

 

[TopCat]

British contribution in terms of aid to Zimbabwe stood at a half billion pounds since independence. Of this total, £47 million was targeted for land reform, and approximately £100 million was budgetary support which could have been used for land reform.
From wikkipedia

This if true is pennies compared to the death, destruction and oppression meted out by the British.

 

[likesfish]

Mugabe is certainly an improvement on Ian Smith and the murderous Cecil Rhodes. Re distributing land is something the South Africans would do well to emulate. The sanctions regime is responsible for the fucked economy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gukurahundi 20000 dead so not really

 

[phildwyer]

At 89, that can't be too long in coming.

I'll be interested to see how long he does last. You can bet that every kind of medical technology, both Western and traditional, is being used to keep him alive. So he is an interesting case study in the current possibilities. Apparently my son's life expectancy is 100.

Who'll last longest, Bob or Fidel?

 

[Buckaroo]

I'll be interested to see how long he does last. You can bet that every kind of medical technology, both Western and traditional, is being used to keep him alive. So he is an interesting case study in the current possibilities. Apparently my son's life expectancy is 100.

Who'll last longest, Bob or Fidel?

Or Chavez or Thatcher? Place yer bets. Maybe they're all dead already, de-frosted for special occasions. Jazzz where are ya?

 

[phildwyer]

Largest diamond reserves in the world, second largest platinum

Yet the people are starving. How could that be...

 

[Buckaroo]

Yet the people are starving. How could that be...

Lazy?

 

[coley]

Yet the people are starving. How could that be...

Swiss bank accounts?

 

[eatmorecheese]

Yet the people are starving. How could that be...

Starvation (as opposed to malnutrition) is overwhelmingly linked to undemocratic societies that lack transparency. As far as I'm aware, there has never been famine in a democracy with a free press (but I'm open to being corrected).

 

[Buckaroo]

If they ate more cheese they wouldn't be starving that's for sure but otherwise dead on. Transparent democracy and a free press, no problem, no famine.

 

[Crazylegs]

Evil never sleeps.
I know alot of young people in Scotland who grew up in Zim and they all love him. see him as a benevolent father figure as he made education possible for so many, that otherwise would have had nothing

 

[sim667]

hobnobs havent even been mentioned yet

 

[RedDragon]

A little surprise he surfaced in Rome today ...

 

[likesfish]

Fuckers not banned from the vatican for some reason so he and his bunch of thugs can travel to italy the only european state they are allowed in.

 

[Pingu]

FACT: wearing an old Rhodesia rugby shirt in Glasgow has a 50% chance of severely damaging your health

 

[TopCat]

Yet the people are starving. How could that be...

A comprehensive sanctions regime that has crippled the country and is designed to punish anyone with the temerity to re distribute land to the landless?

 

[chilango]

The supermarkets in Harare are full though...

 

[likesfish]

A comprehensive sanctions regime that has crippled the country and is designed to punish anyone with the temerity to re distribute land to the landless?

In February 2002 the European Union imposed a number of sanctions on Zimbabwe in response to a Council assessment that the Government of Zimbabwe was engaged in serious violations of human rights, as well as violations of the freedom of opinion, freedom of association and freedom of peaceful assembly.

The sanctions included an arms embargo as well as travel and financial sanctions. The arms embargo was part of Council Common Position of 18 February 2002 concerning restrictive measures on Zimbabwe, (2002/145/CFSP).


basically being a massive dick.

handing a commerical farm to a bunch of random peeps to practice subsitence farming is a fucking stupid policy.
forcing the farm workers off the land they worked is even more fucking stupid.

not a big fan of white farmers but turning a farm that worked back into wilderness helps no one
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/01/boers-moving-north-african-governments

replacing subsistence farming is progress and has to happen to move african states forward.

 

[Citizen66]

A comprehensive sanctions regime that has crippled the country and is designed to punish anyone with the temerity to re distribute land to the landless?

Those sanctions don't seem to apply to the Chinese buying up all those diamonds, however.

 

[likesfish]

China we dont give a fuck basically .

china probably the worst system ever. all the repression of the soviet system none of the support systems.
all the blood in red and tooth captialism and you can have the police kill anyone who complains

 

[xes]

I heard that Mugabe has a very very very small penis, and this is why he's such a fucking cunt. Same as Kim Jong Un. Both of them have indescribably small cocks.

 

[TopCat]

I heard that Mugabe has a very very very small penis, and this is why he's such a fucking cunt. Same as Kim Jong Un. Both of them have indescribably small cocks.

As far as I am aware Mugabe had his testicles removed whilst in the custody of the Apartheid era South Africans to stop him from reproducing.

 

[Citizen66]

As far as I am aware Mugabe had his testicles removed whilst in the custody of the Apartheid era South Africans to stop him from reproducing.

So he impregnated his secretary with whom he conducted an affair (and later married) through other means?

 

[phildwyer]

So he impregnated his secretary with whom he conducted an affair (and later married) through other means?

I wouldn't put it past him tbf.

 

[Citizen66]

I wouldn't put it past him tbf.

Well it's a possible narrative if seemingly unlikely.

 

[Pickman's model]

As far as I am aware Mugabe had his testicles removed whilst in the custody of the Apartheid era South Africans to stop him from reproducing.

mugabe hasn't even got one ball, as it were then

 

[TopCat]

So he impregnated his secretary with whom he conducted an affair (and later married) through other means?

Mothers babys Daddys maybe!

 

[weltweit]

So, the people of Zimbabwe are going to the polls.

 

[weltweit]

I saw some interesting claims on Newsnight tonight basically that in a voting population of some 6 million there have been 8 million ballots made, in many wards there are apparently more voters than residents, all seems pretty fishy and there seems little doubt Mugabe will win by fair means or foul.

 

[JHE]

As far as I am aware Mugabe had his testicles removed whilst in the custody of the Apartheid era South Africans to stop him from reproducing.

When and how was he ever in the custody of Apartheid Seth Ifrica? He was locked up for a decade in Rhodesia (as it then was), but SA.... ?

Is this just a joke that I don't quite get?