All for a loaf of bread . . .

Which is cheaper?

How much does a banana cost?

Lol, Damn this is hilarious??

ztyle:

Lol, Damn this is hilarious??

its quite sad actually. . .

i watched him giving oneof his speeches today. . . he's pure evil!

dont blame them

Na so we see am

Zimbabwe's endangered species

Lol! na wa oh

uhmn

brilliant. well written.

is this the end of 'cry baby Tsvangirai??

It has been done with great brutality, but Robert Mugabe has achieved an extraordinary turnaround here.

Back in March, when the first round of voting took place, he was humiliated by being beaten into second place in the presidential race, and by losing the parliamentary election outright.

Now he's the sole effective candidate in Friday's presidential run-off, and he cannot fail to win with an overwhelming majority.

The moral is clear: never underestimate Robert Mugabe's ferocious determination to stay in power


His opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been completely outmanoeuvred. The outside world, which mostly sympathises with him, can do nothing whatever to help him.

The suburban street outside the Dutch embassy where he's taken refuge in Harare is empty, except for a few security policemen on the look-out.

Even his choice of embassy has been turned against him by his political enemies. It might well have been better for him politically if he had chosen an African rather than a European country to ask for help.

As it is, MDC supporters are gloomy and resentful. They are also cowed.

The streets of Harare are quiet because there is no longer any need for the groups of violent political activists in Zanu-PF T-shirts who have been roaming them, looking for people to beat up.


There will be no demonstrations in favour of the man inside the Dutch embassy. He seems as cowed as his supporters.

There are plenty of people here who do not even know yet that Morgan Tsvangirai has dropped out of the political race.


Morgan Tsvangirai's presidential campaign has been ignored or belittled

That is not entirely surprising. The official media scarcely mentions Mr Tsvangirai or the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) unless they are obliged to.

The main English-language television news programme at 8pm each evening on the ZBC is an hour-long paean of praise to Mr Mugabe and his past record.

The programme's reporting merges imperceptibly with the frequent election advertisements for Mr Mugabe. If anything, the reporters and newscasters praise him more than his own party hacks.

As for Mr Tsvangirai, he only gets a substantial mention on television when he is being attacked. One rather well-made advertisement lists him with Tony Blair, George W Bush and Gordon Brown as members of the "failures club".

A long news report on Mr Mugabe's political campaigning contrasts his successes and his likely future achievements with Mr Tsvangirai's inexperience. The reporter, referring to Mr Tsvangirai's past as a union leader, says dismissively that he has merely negotiated about getting more money.

Neither she nor anyone else in this hour-long programme mentions that on Monday the Zimbabwean dollar fell to 30 billion against the US dollar. The cost of a tub of margarine in a Harare store on Monday was Z$420m.

Chinese support

No-one knows how much worse the economic collapse will be after Mr Mugabe wins the vote on Friday. The economy seems to be in complete freefall now.

But as long as he can blame it on Western sanctions, even though they are few and mostly aimed at leading members of Zanu-PF, he will remain unscathed.

Western powers will be openly angry about the eclipse of Morgan Tsvangirai and the sweeping victory of Robert Mugabe on Friday. Many African governments will be just as angry, but will be more discreet about it.

Some countries, China in particular, will continue to help Mr Mugabe quietly and give him what diplomatic protection they can.

It all adds up to a remarkable sweeping victory for a man who only three months ago seemed to be on the ropes.

The moral is clear: never underestimate Robert Mugabe's ferocious determination to stay in power, nor the ability of his political opponents to destroy their own case

Sad.

Zimbabwean presidency - No vacancy!

oh my !! roflmao!!!

What an ugly man!!!!!!!!

I heard the little tache he leaves is intended as some sort of simulacrum of Hitler's famous tache

stillwater:

What an ugly man!!!!!!!!

That is what you will say now, until he blazes you his sweet lyrics and you melt like butter.

cool post davidylan. @post, this guy has proved to be a great zombie. African governments need to come together and declare that they want no more dictators anywhere in the west, east, and south of Africa. That way, there will be a fine line and a stark difference that would be much easier to contain and handle. Is not only zimbabwe, this list includes a few like next door to Nigeria the so called Biya, then gadaffi, and the gabonese president just to name a few. Africans don't need to be told to do the right thing. This is not a black and white issue this is the mean mentality vs pan african mentality. They are pulling others down by so much authoritarian and really need to be stopped. Naija need to really begin thinking of militarizing every citizen without being a bully to our neighbors; that way it would send a message when we say something and it would create equality and respect in Nigeria itself cuz everyone would have an army training. Mehn, I don't know wat, but something needs to be done in Africa and "aid" is not one of them.

1. Open a new file in your computer.

2. Name it 'Robert Mugabe'.

3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.

4. Empty the Recycle Bin.

5. Your PC will ask you. 'Do you really want to get rid of
'Robert Mugabe ?'

6. Firmly Click 'Yes.'

7. Feel better?

This test has only one question, but it's a very important one.
Please don't answer it without giving it some serious thought.
By giving an honest answer you will be able to test where you stand
morally.

The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation, where you
will have to make a decision one way or the other.

Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.

You're in Zimbabwe, near Kariba, to be exact. There is great chaos
going on around you, caused by an unpredicted hurricane and severe floods.

There are huge masses of water all about you. You are a Daily News
photographer and you are in the middle of this great disaster. The
situation is nearly hopeless. You're trying to shoot very impressive
photos.

There are houses and people floating around you, disappearing into the
Zambezi River as it roars through the gorge.

Nature is showing all its destructive power and is ripping everything away
with it.

Suddenly you see a man in the water - he is fighting for his life, trying
not to be taken away by the masses of water and mud.

You move closer. Somehow the man looks familiar.

Suddenly you know who it is, it's Robert Mugabe!

At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him
away, forever.

You have two options and no time to lose. You can save him or you can take
the best photo of your life. You can't do both.

So you can save the life of Robert Mugabe, or you can shoot a prize
winning photo, a unique photo displaying the death of one of the world's
most notorious leaders. And here's the question (please give an honest
answer):


Would you select colour film, or rather go with the simplicity of classic
black and white?

RSA:

1. Open a new file in your computer.

2. Name it 'Robert Mugabe'.

3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.

4. Empty the Recycle Bin.

5. Your PC will ask you. 'Do you really want to get rid of
'Robert Mugabe ?'

6. Firmly Click 'Yes.'

7. Feel better?

Yes, that changes everything in zimbabwe , funny

RSA:

This test has only one question, but it's a very important one.
Please don't answer it without giving it some serious thought.
By giving an honest answer you will be able to test where you stand
morally.

The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation, where you
will have to make a decision one way or the other.

Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.

You're in Zimbabwe, near Kariba, to be exact. There is great chaos
going on around you, caused by an unpredicted hurricane and severe floods.

There are huge masses of water all about you. You are a Daily News
photographer and you are in the middle of this great disaster. The
situation is nearly hopeless. You're trying to shoot very impressive
photos.

There are houses and people floating around you, disappearing into the
Zambezi River as it roars through the gorge.

Nature is showing all its destructive power and is ripping everything away
with it.

Suddenly you see a man in the water - he is fighting for his life, trying
not to be taken away by the masses of water and mud.

You move closer. Somehow the man looks familiar.

Suddenly you know who it is, it's Robert Mugabe!

At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him
away, forever.

You have two options and no time to lose. You can save him or you can take
the best photo of your life. You can't do both.

So you can save the life of Robert Mugabe, or you can shoot a prize
winning photo, a unique photo displaying the death of one of the world's
most notorious leaders. And here's the question (please give an honest
answer):


Would you select colour film, or rather go with the simplicity of classic
black and white?

LOL
@RSA i think i will go black and white, has a more classic feel to it.

Black and White because he is not worth the more expensive Coloured shot.

LOL,  @Sagamite i bet if you also happened to have a disposable camera in your pocket you would use that instead, no focus or red eye removal or flash or any of that fancy rubbish, just a one click half a second (but still time wasting) picture before you can get back to focusing more on the hurricane. LOL.

An old man like Mugabe should not be heavy handed in his actions. He was offered immunity from prosecution but he repayed it with violence. You would think a man of his age would happily take the deal that was on the table. Don't worry, the moment his health begin to fails, he will hear wahala. There are enough people in Zimba and in his party ready to stick the knife into him at any sign of failing health.

Y'all are just jealous of Mad Dog Mugabe's immaculately manicured "Little Hitler" moustache.

To show solidarity with Zimbabwe's Maximum Leader, I shall henceforth cultivate a "caterpillar-died-on-my-upper lip" moustache trimmed sharp enough to inflict mortal wounds on cowardly enemies of progress such as Tony Blair, even as they flee in disarray.

"caterpillar-died-on-my-upper-lip"  abeg you guys should leave Mugabs alone, it is not his fault that he has 'lip baldness' on all areas of his lip except the middle 'landing strip'. We should even be opening charity sef, let us fight to cure lip baldness in our generation, Mugabs can be the poster boy but not before face transplant

His name is MUGARBAGE

before we start running zimbabwe and mugabe down,all nigerians on here should realise we are ten times worse than mugabe and nigeria would have been worse off if not for the oil,whatever you ll say about the man and how warped his reasoning is,he has not kow towed to the west like our president who said its a priviledge for him to be in the white house and in zimbabwe they have the freedom of information bill which we have found difficult to pass, our currency is not that much better than the zimbabweans considering our resources and the opportunities we v had and no matter how bad mugabe is abacha or ibb or abdusalam are still way ahead,even though he s not allowing the opposition at least he has not assasinated them like we do in nigeria,bola ige comes to mind,ken saro wiwa and the 8,dele giwa,maman vatsa,mko abiola was a bigger and more popular opposition than tvisanga whaever with the same coverage zimbabwe is having now in 1993 but they still jailed him and later killed him mugabe has not done that so lets remove the log in our eyes before the speck in mugabe's

lucabrasi:

before we start running zimbabwe and mugabe down,all nigerians on here should realise we are ten times worse than mugabe and nigeria would have been worse off if not for the oil,whatever you ll say about the man and how warped his reasoning is,he has not kow towed to the west like our president who said its a priviledge for him to be in the white house and in zimbabwe they have the freedom of information bill which we have found difficult to pass, our currency is not that much better than the zimbabweans considering our resources and the opportunities we v had and no matter how bad mugabe is abacha or ibb or abdusalam are still way ahead,even though he s not allowing the opposition at least he has not assasinated them like we do in nigeria,bola ige comes to mind,ken saro wiwa and the 8,dele giwa,maman vatsa,mko abiola was a bigger and more popular opposition than tvisanga whaever with the same coverage zimbabwe is having now in 1993 but they still jailed him and later killed him mugabe has not done that so lets remove the log in our eyes before the speck in mugabe's

In as much I wont stand here and say that all is well with Nigeria but spare me such horrible comparison!
Who has ruled Nigeria non stop for 10 years?
You also said that they have freedom of information bill To that I will say just like everything is free in Freetown.
Information free in Mugabeland better don't deceive yourself that one na paper.
You went further to say that he has not killed , Mugabe not killed? Mhhh! I beg let me not go further bye.

lucabrasi:

before we start running zimbabwe and mugabe down,all nigerians on here should realise we are ten times worse than mugabe and nigeria would have been worse off if not for the oil,whatever you ll say about the man and how warped his reasoning is,he has not kow towed to the west like our president who said its a priviledge for him to be in the white house and in zimbabwe they have the freedom of information bill which we have found difficult to pass, our currency is not that much better than the zimbabweans considering our resources and the opportunities we v had and no matter how bad mugabe is abacha or ibb or abdusalam are still way ahead,even though he s not allowing the opposition at least he has not assasinated them like we do in nigeria,bola ige comes to mind,ken saro wiwa and the 8,dele giwa,maman vatsa,mko abiola was a bigger and more popular opposition than tvisanga whaever with the same coverage zimbabwe is having now in 1993 but they still jailed him and later killed him mugabe has not done that so lets remove the log in our eyes before the speck in mugabe's

Are you so dim-witted?

Do you bother to research topics or listen to the news before you open your gob?

So making statements that shows diplomatic courtesy is being kow towed to the west?



Are you so dim-witted?

This is your freedom of information: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1748979.stm

Zimbabwe's parliament has passed three out of the four controversial bills, which President Robert Mugabe's government had wanted to enact ahead of presidential elections in March.
Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act

The Act establishes a Statutory Media Commission, which requires all journalists to apply for a one-year renewable licence to be allowed to work.

Licences will only be awarded if a stringent set of requirements are met, and can be revoked at any time for those who breach a planned code of conduct.

In addition, foreign media organisations must pay a total of $13,050 per correspondent every year.

Those found guilty of any offence will face a fine of up to Z$100,000 ($1,875) or two years' imprisonment.

Widespread criticism - even from within Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party forced some minor concessions.

- All journalists must be Zimbabwean citizens, which bars all foreign nationals from reporting in the country.

- Foreign correspondents may be allowed to cover special events.

- It is an offence to "spread rumours or falsehoods that cause alarm and despondency under the guise of authentic reports".

- Journalists are barred from publishing "unauthorised" reports of cabinet deliberations and policy advice by a head of a public body, as well as information that may be harmful to the law enforcement process and national security.

- Public bodies are also barred from releasing information that relates to intergovernmental relations or their financial or economic interests.

The Foreign Correspondents Association in Zimbabwe has appealed to the courts against the law.

The Public Order and Security Act

Constitutional lawyers have warned that the wide-ranging provisions of this bill - which give unprecedented powers to the police - are similar to apartheid-era security legislation in South Africa.
Punishment for breach of the bill ranges from the death penalty to jail terms to heavy fines.

The bill makes it illegal:


- "To undermine the authority of the president" or "engender hostility" towards him.

- To make abusive, obscene or false statements against the president.

- To disturb the peace, security and order of the public, which includes public gatherings "to conduct riots, disorder or intolerance".

- To perform acts, utter words, distribute or display any writing, sign or other visible representation that is obscene, threatening, abusive, insulting or intended to provoke a breach of peace.

- The police are given powers to arrest anyone at a public meeting not in possession of an identity card.

- Senior police officers will have powers to control and disperse public gatherings and crowds whenever they deem it reasonable to do so.

General Laws Amendment Act

Changes to the Electoral Act place significant obstacles in the way of those registering to vote.


In urban areas, they are required to produce passports and utility bills to prove that they have lived in their constituencies for the last 12 months.

In rural areas, local chiefs and village heads, seen as being pro-government, are required to vouch for anyone registering to vote.

Postal votes are restricted to diplomats and members of the armed forces, disenfranchising millions of students and workers living abroad.

Foreign and independent local monitors are barred but after much pressure, foreign observers, with fewer powers than monitors, will be allowed.
Election posters or pamphlets cannot be used without prior permission.

Labour Relations Amendment Bill

The bill was debated in parliament but not passed after it was called "unconstitutional". It cannot now be passed until after the election

The bill would make it illegal for union officials to organise strikes.

It would also outlaw worker demonstrations.

Freedom of information is when all journalists have to be vetted annually by the incumbent government before they are allowed to continue practicing journalism?



Are you so dim-witted?

Our currency is not much different from the Zimbabwean currency?

Rates in 2003
$1 = N129
$1 = Z$0.824

Current Rates
£1 = N117 (appreciated)
£1 = Z$9,005,149,887 (depreciated)
(Note: The ZWD rate shown is the official rate. Actual available ZWD rates may vary significantly.)

I bet you will claim you went to school. So, Professor of Reasoning, how are the currencies similar? Which one will you invest in, Dim wit?

Inflation
Nigeria: 5.5%
Zimbabwe: 10,453% (official data; private sector estimates are much higher)

Growth Rate
Nigeria:       6.4%
Zimbabwe: -6.1%



Are you so dim-witted?

Politicians Mugabe is suspected of killing
Josiah Tongogara (Commander of the ZANLA [ZANU's militant wing during the struggle])
- Many expected him to be the first president of Zimbabwe, with Robert Mugabe, head of Zanla's political wing, ZANU, as prime minister.
- A CIA intelligence briefing of 28 December 1979 said Tongogara was a potential political rival to Mugabe because of his ambition, popularity and decisive style.
- He attended the Lancaster House conference that led to Zimbabwe's independence and the end of white minority rule.
- As Lancaster House concluded, Tongogara returned to Mozambique, where Zanla was based, to inform his soldiers of the ceasefire.
- Six days later, Mugabe announces that Tongogara was dead, killed in a car accident in Mozambique on December 26, 1979.
- Zanu released an undertaker's statement saying his injuries were consistent with a road accident, but no autopsy results or pictures have been released.
- One of the people present on the fatal journey was Josiah Tungamirai (Later to be Mugabe's air chief marshal and serve as the commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe)
     - After Josiah Tungamirai's death, his widow Pamela Tungamirai claimed that he had been poisoned.
- US embassy in Zambia reported: Almost no one in Lusaka (Mugabe's allies) accepts Mugabe's assurance that Tongogara died accidentally. When the US ambassador told the Soviet ambassador the news, the surprised Soviet immediately charged 'inside job'.
- On his dead body, there were three wounds, consistent with gun shot wounds, to his upper torso. The undertaker's statement was not a formal autopsy report and as such was dismissed by all but the senior politburo of ZANU.


Opposition politicians Mugabe has harrassed
Ndabaningi Sithole (founder member ZANU)
- In 1983, went into self-imposed exile when he declared that his life was in danger becuase he was a major candidate to take over from Mugabe.
- Returned in 1992, took up a position as an MP.
- Was a candidate in the 1996 presidential election against Mugabe.
- 1997, a court tried and convicted him of conspiring to assassinate Mugabe and the government disqualified him from attending parliament. He was granted the right to appeal, appeal was filed, but the case was never heard by the Supreme Court. He was allowed bail because of his deteriorating health. He died 12 December 2000.
- Mugabe confisticated a farm land he bought

James Chikerema (founder member ZAPU)
- Following the Lancaster House Agreement, his party, the ZDP, stood in the 1980 elections. Chikerema complained about intimidation by ZANU-PF supporters during the campaign. He lost heavily and left politics.
- In 1993 he formed the Forum Party of Zimbabwe, soon after the farm he owned was designated for purchase by the Zimbabwe government. And in 2000 it was included in the list of farms to be compulsorily purchased without compensation. He is not white and was a freedom fighter.

Joshua Nkomo (founder member ZAPU)
- Real leader of independence struggle but lost out to Mugabe due to not being a member of the major tribe, Shona.
- In 1982 was accused of plotting a coup d'état after South African double agents in Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organization, attempting to cause distrust between ZAPU and ZANU, planted arms on ZAPU owned farms, and then tipped Mugabe off to their existence.
- In a public statement Mugabe said, "ZAPU and its leader, Dr. Joshua Nkomo, are like a cobra in a house. The only way to deal effectively with a snake is to strike and destroy its head."
- He unleashed the Fifth Brigade upon Nkomo's Matabeleland homeland in Operation Gukurahundi, killing more than 20,000 Ndebele civilians in an attempt to destroy ZAPU and create a one-party state.



Are you so dim-witted?

This is just from a little and basic research.

I have not even included Morgan Tsvangarai with his beating and multiple arrests and flight for his life to dutch embassy.

Hundreds of his supporters beaten and killed. State media, police commissioner attecking his personality and refusing to report any news about his campaign and police repeatedly raiding MDC headquarters to pack people to beat.

So much for your freedom of information.



Dim-wit!!!