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From bread basket to basket case
It's like an offbeat, wacky comedy; African dictator holds election with only himself as candidate, threatens people with death if they don't vote for him, then claims 'victory' in every voting district, and declares himself 'elected' president. But it isn't fiction of the Monty Python kind, this is the surreal tragi-comedy reality of Zimbabwe, and no African countries are prepared to criticise unduly due to the dictator once being an anti-colonial freedom fighter, way back when he was still sane. Even Mandela has been silent up to now, and still failed to mention Zimbabwe or Mugabe in his recent over-mild statement. I expect he's been too busy being an icon for Africa that all the white liberals love to be seen with. Of course, if the UN had ever been allowed to have teeth, it could go in and sort out the rabble of bullies who support the prancing psychopath in his taste-free shirts, but that's not going to happen, and the morally bankrupt Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, who until recently believed AIDS could be cured by some cheap African herbs, and in whose extremely rich country abject poverty is more rife than under apartheid, won't even criticise Mugabe despite the horrors that are being perpetrated. Zimbabwe, once a prosperous, modern country that was known as the bread basket of Africa with huge surpluses of food to export, is now bankrupt and surviving on food aid. But how long do we have to pour money and food into the country while the cause of it all, Mugabe, struts? It's about time this insane old man who thinks he's president is led away to a padded cell for the rest of his life where he can do no more harm. Let him keep the shirts.
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Yup, the west just sits back and goe "tut, tut, naughty boy" and then does absolutely nothing to help. You've got to ask if the guardians of freedom and democracy would be so slow at "helping" if Zimbabwe had oil reserves?
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