Zimbabwe And The Need For United Nations Reform by James W. Smith
For many years, the United States taxpayer has helped sustain the corrupt, bureaucratic organization known as the United Nations. In fact, the United States continues to fund more than $5 billion of the United Nation‘s $20 billion dollar annual budget. The question every United [...]
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I think the stance taken by Germany to stop one of their suppliers from providing paper for the printing of money in the country might be a realistic step for imposing pressure on the Mugabe regime.
Its a harsh thing to say but the reality is that eventually the people will simply no longer accept conditions [...]
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I heard a press report this afternoon that the President of Tansania PRAISED Mugabe for his handling of the elections and praised Mbeki for his diplomacy and mediation in the crisis.
This is ridiculous - at a time when the continent should be standing together against Zimbabwe, we have the dissension in the ranks. Poor form.
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“Why have the names of those bankrolling Zimbabwe’s deranged president, Robert Mugabe, been kept so well under wraps? For one thing, the deals behind the bankrolling are not simple, and for another, the robber barons are pretty smart and can also be pretty damn dangerous. Depending on how you count, there are four or five [...]
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Has Morgan Tsvangirai finally come to the conclusion that he cannot win a fair fight against Mugabe? Or has he simply lost the will to fight.
The decision to pull out of the run off seems to me that he has lost the will to fight. By seeing it through to the end, irrespsective of the [...]
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The two comments below (reported in mainstream South African media) are part of the reason people do not take the continent particularly seriously. The ANC Youth League is supposed to be the breeding ground for young politicians in Africa - yet they simpyl succeed in embaressing themselves time and time again. Literally they share the [...]
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“Power to the People” is a chronicle of events in Zimbabwe from independence and the experiences of the ordinary people as the country’s government changed hands from colonial rule to an independent country. The challenges of the regimes in the two eras, the administrative styles, the strategies adopted by the regimes to hold onto power, [...]
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So “quiet diplomacy” has come home to roost with South African policemen and women risking their lives to protect the lives of scores of legal and illegal immigrants now occupying our townships.
All this while law abiding, tax paying South Africans are complaining that crime is rampant in their own areas. Bottom line – we don’t [...]
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Lonrho Plc`s bottled water division, Lonrho Spring`s BVI, is pleased to announce substantial progress in its scheduled development of a pan African water business.
Since acquiring the technology and brand name of Swissta Holdings in May 2007, the company has subsequently become the market leader in Mozambique, is doubling the size of the plant in Kinshasa, [...]
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Up until a few weeks ago I was relatively supportive of Thabo Mbeki as our President. I think he had done enough unspectacular work to keep the country ticking along nicely.
Unfortunately I think his indecisiveness is now counting against him and he is going through the motions. The result – South Africans have lost faith [...]
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