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Wise Man • N/A
Subject: N/a
Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:43:09 • N/A, I am happy that you want to use this knowledge of whether USAID is the MAJOR source of food in rural areas as a yardstick of whether one is in (or has recently been) in Zimbabwe. Let those who read this site judge for themselves. For your own information, no-one who goes to Zimbabwe and comes back will write whatever you are writing on this site. I will never allow myself to be an asylum seeker, kubatwa sechikorobho munyika dzavamwe handibvume, thats why I stayed in Stack room 3 kusvika pakuraramo. I am sure you dont even know stack room 3.
n/a • n/a
Subject: Food Aid
Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:39:23 • Wiseman-You want to give the impression that the majority of people in Zim are recieving food aid and USAID is the major contributor of this aid and that is false premise. A lot of food has been sourced from neighbouring countries to assist the people.From your rantings on this site, it is clear you have not been to Zim for years (maybe you are a failed asylum seeker who cannot go back because you lied). In my own neck of wood, we have not seen an iota of this USAID. Yes, Motormouth is right that Zims do not want this kind of aid. US imposed the sanctions that have killed millions of our friends and families. The only help Zims need is the lifting of US,EU and UK sanctions.Anyone who genuinely wants to help should give Zims farming inputs and not food aid. Give a man a fish and you feed him for the day, teach him how to fish and he will never go hungry again. Let us have less of this begging bowl syndrome and more of self help.
When those whose actions precipitated the crisis in the first place offer us assistance (food for today only), are we not allowed to question their motives?
We Zims should resist being mentally manipulated to think our yesteryear oppressors are suddenly our liberators.
Wise Man • N/A
Subject: Motormouth
Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:36:36 • Motormouth enda kumusha kwako, wherever you come from, and tell them that you dont want any aid from USA, that USAID food be removed from Zimbabwe, tione ukasabva uchimhanyiswa nanasekuru vako chaivo. At a time when people are facing hard times and spending days without eating, you have the guts and luxury of speaking such words in the comfort of another country!
Changamire Dombo • ChangamireDombo@rocketmail.com
Subject: Thanks SADC.
Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:53:48 • For putting your money where your mouth is, Thanks SADC!
KUTSVA KWENDEBVU TINODZIMURANA.
N/A • N/A
Subject: N/A
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:40:43 • Zanu PF will only lead us to death by starvation of disease. We want to be under foreign occupation to survive. Please foreign contries, invade us. I beg you to invedae our courty. Thank you in anticipation of an invasion. We cant remove Mugabe by whatever means. We tried elections but they took two months to count the results. If we go foe elections again they may take 10 years for the results to be announced.
P C M • itainondo@yahoo.com
Subject: Dellusions!
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:34:32 • Shame on you guys. Being proud of being beggers. Those SADC countries are using money sourced from those countries you trash. Myself being Zimbabwean, I am really ashamed! What we need is an environment that allows for investment, education and above all, self-relience. Kushivka riini tichipiwa???
Tshepo • n/a
Subject: n/a
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:07:02 • Excuse me. There is no cholera outbreak in Botswana. Botswana reported 3 cases of cholera all involving Zimbabwean citizens 3 weeks ago. Botswana is a middle income coutry therefore it does not always qualify for financial aid from the USA and other developed countries. Botswana has been weaned from this kind of aid. Cholera is in Zimbabwe: let's focus on that and thank Namibia, South Africa and Botswana for contributing to the package. It is not only Tanzania that contributed.
Mukanya • abjayz@hotmail.co.uk
Subject: Well Done SADC
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:37:06 • Editor,
I would to express my BIG THANK YOU to our comrades in SADC. This is a true testimony of African solidarity. This is the true antithesis of the stance being taken by the neo-imoperialists who are making loads of noises and doing very little if not making the situation worse. This confirms that if a fellow brother or sister is in distress for whatever reason, deal with the crisis at hand and then talk about the causes later when lives have been saved. Unlike the Western powers who instead of assisting they want to deploy their fire power onto the very same people who are in distress, what a paradox. At best that is plain irrationality and at worst a real display of unnecessary gung-ho jingoism.
What SADC has displayed is the true spirit of Pan-Africanism and this is what this grouping has always done since the Front Line States days during which Zimabawe itself played a crucial part. SADC know very well what the origins of the Zimbabwean problem is, regardless of what the West and their fifth column allies purport to be. We do know that time will come when we don't go globe trotting with begging bowls. Africa without being plundered over many centuries is a very rich continent and let us not lose sight of that.
The struggle continues!
DREADS • na.
Subject: ITS A CHOLERA TSUNAMI
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:07:53 • THE world can stand by and point fingers at President Mugabe, yet the cholera outbreaks in our own region are southern Africa's own Tsunami Disaster!
Just because we haved had no earthquake as Asia did on 26th December, 2004, that prompted that terrible natural disaster, it appears to have minimised the seriousness of our cholera outbreak which has reaked equal havoc in southern Africa.
Angola, Malawi, South Africa and even Zambia are also burying their dead. How come Botswana has not admitted to cholera outbreaks? Is it because they are first in line to receive any medication from the USA for all the diseases they, too, are prone to?
n/a • n/a
Subject: Sadc
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:45:13 • We, patriotic Zimbabweans hail our Sadc brothers/sisters who have come to our aid.Africa and Sadc have come of age. Look at this no strings attached aid from our African brothers and sisters. Shame to those detractors of Sadc and Africa.Where are those countries which are experts on rhetoric about worsening conditions in Zimbabwe but have shown very little inclination to assist to date? Where is Mcgee (the US Ambasador to Zim) and his bunch of do gooders who only want to provide aid during election periods but not when there is a humanitarian crisis?
Where is the assistance from the US, Britain, Canada, Belgium, France, Germany , Australia, New Zealand ect. These countries are very quick to impose sanctions but show very liitle enthusiasm to assist. All we are getting from these countries is the usual rhetoric of Mugabe out, Mugabe out. The most pressing problem for Zim is the cholera epidemic. Is Mugabe a new strain of cholera? As Bob Marley once sang Africans will liberate Zimbabwe and true to Marley's prophetic words Africans are coming to liberate Zimbabwe.
The firends of Africa who have contributed to date include South Africa, Nambia, Tanzania and China.These are true friends and not fair weather friends like the US who have states that the US will not extend aid to Zimbabwe as long as President Mugabe is in power. In other words the US is publicly stating that it does not care if any Zimbabwean dies of cholera ,starvation or what have you as long as the political outcome does not suit its foreign policy aims, sod all to your human rights.The US is demonstrating that it does not uphold any right to life of any citizen whose govt is at loggerheads with it. Where is the UK assistance to Zim in all this? The UK caused this problem in the first place and should assist.The UK turned a bilateral dispute into an international dispute and were at the forefront of calling for sanctions against Zim.The UK should remove its sanctions against Zimbabwe forthwith. The sanctions have killed more Zimbabweans than cholera. We Zimbabweans have a right to life, a right to safety, a right to dignity and a right to determine our own destiny.All the UK is doing at the moment is to deny visas to Zimbabweans who want to visit their friends and families in the UK using the excuse of the most severe economic collapse in Zimbabwe's history, unemployment at 82%, education,health services and social sectors crumbling etc. The UK caused all of these problems by the sanctions it and its allies the US, EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand imposed on Zimbabwe. The UK Visa section in Harare is doing a roaring trade in visa applications, charging the poor people $104 US per application and refusing visas to the majority of applicants citing the economic collapse of the country as an excuse.The UK should be ashamed of itself because it engineered the dire economic situation in Zim itself by imposing sanctions on a developing country. The UK is exploiting these people
John the baptist • N/A
Subject: Beggars
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:13:42 • We are now beggars.It is quite embarrassing that a few years ago we were at the forefront of humanitarian efforts to assist in Mozambique.What a shame.
Motormouth • na/
Subject: n/a
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:09:44 • The USA can keep its aid! We dont need it! They are a terrorist nation who are so used to everything evil so much that they have ceased to have whatever moral authority with which they may have hoodwinked the whole world with before! They should learn from the ''shoes that bid George Bush goodbye'' that as far as respect and dignity they may have held before, they are now just as good as their erstwhile chief enemy bin Laden in the eyes of the rest of the progressive world. They need to turn a corner and if Obama is going to continue with Bush's policies, then in ten years time, America will just be another state, just like Spain or France or Britain, who are apt to make the loudest noises but nobody listens to them! So Obama has to listen to the voices in the region, not solitary pro-western voices that we hear from Botswana but from SADC and then he will unlock the keys for huge American investments and access to resources in the region which will be uncontested by SADC countries themselves but greatly encouraged by them. He should not listen to the crazed noises emanating from Britain, Zimbabwe is not a British colony and that is the position of SADC! If Britain wants to participate in exploiting resources in Zimbabwe, she too, has to shift and change tactics from the delusions of Gordon Brown who thinks he an Emperor now running the Commonwealth. Good to know that we are no longer a member!
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