DEAR EDITOR—Before I make a substantive comment on Sihle's article that I think is very informative, allow me to respond to readers who label us as the UK lot and on that basis think that our views out of step with reality.
Firstly some of us were born in rural Zimbabwe during war time, went through two famines in the eighties and early nineties and still have mothers and fathers back home who update us on how dire the situation is like on the ground.
We greatly sympathise with what is happening but sometimes people who are so close to the problem lose perspective of a brighter future which is why it is important for us in the diaspora to keep the hope of a prosperous Zimbabwe alive.
Brothers and sisters back home might think we are so arrogant as we write in our own comforts, but we are not. The modern day war is not fought in the bushes but on the battlefront of ideas and as we write on Zim Guardian who knows, politicians might stray and read what we write and regain their perspective.
Coming back to Sihle's article, I think every one of us must do everything every day to ensure that children's best interests are paramount.
Article 3 of the Geneva Convention on the rights of the child is clear and it states: "In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration."
Whenever adults fight, it's children who suffer. I hope we will realise this and stop the madness and I mean all politicians, all and sundry.
Thanks Sihle, keep up the good work.
Arthur London
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THE INTERCEPTOR • na Subject: I THOUGHT BY NOW WE SHOULD'VE ALL GROWED UP, HUH? Fri, 09 May 2008 18:53:34 • U write...Brothers and sisters back home might think we are so arrogant as we write in our own comforts...
Should someone in authority (UK) think that everyone here has had enough of the in-fighting between MT and the Zanu PF Government, and should that someone in authority decide that no more visas and any and all Zimbabweans be sent back on the next available transport because we are acting like spoit brats, then what will our brothers and sisters at home do and how will they survive?
New Labour set the pigeons amongst us back in 1997. Since then it has all been uphill in Zim. They knew exactly what would happen which is why they got a woman to write that letter. Hiding behind a woman's skirts.
How long do we have to wait for Conservatives to come into power and sort our country out because we are incapable, and the way we are going guys, that is how long it is going to take and we could have an earthquake in the Rift Valley before then and end up like Burma.
But there will be no tins of rice for us because there wont be any available in the world by then anyway.
In the meantime the propoganda coming out of Zim gets uglier and uglier because MDC-T have BBC/CNN and SKY at this disposal, and wants nothing less for his people than the crown for himself.
If he was serious about his 50% of the country he would have come to an ageement long ago. Whose side is he on? His own.
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