The high-resolution imagery in Google Earth enables users to zoom into the region to view more than 1,600 damaged and destroyed villages, providing visual, compelling evidence of the scope of the destruction. The remnants of more than 100,000 homes, schools, mosques and other structures destroyed by the janjaweed militia and Sudanese forces are clearly visible.
New Statesman
18 April, 2007
Zimbabwe: Just what is the meaning of independence?
newzimbabwe, Mutumwa D. Mawere
Twenty seven years later the question is whether the citizens of Zimbabwe have progressed on the independence value chain. Are they freer today than they were under the Rhodesia Front? What is the difference, if any, between the approach to governance of Zanu PF and the Rhodesia Front?
It is clear from the conversations that I have had with many Zimbabweans that they feel alienated from their government. They feel that the last 27 years has not brought the citizens closer to their government anymore than Ian Smith was closer to his subjects.
What kind of communication would be appropriate to a person like President Mugabe to help him separate the interests of his party and national interest as well as his own personal interest and national interest?
Just imaging what Zimbabwe will be like after the extended term of President Mugabe is sufficient to make many people sick. In the face of a Tsugabe (the cousin of Tsunami), Zimbabweans cannot remain indifferent when their future is continuing to be mortgaged to a future with hyperinflation, corruption, dysfunctional state, poverty and exclusion.
Twenty seven years later the question is whether the citizens of Zimbabwe have progressed on the independence value chain. Are they freer today than they were under the Rhodesia Front? What is the difference, if any, between the approach to governance of Zanu PF and the Rhodesia Front?
It is clear from the conversations that I have had with many Zimbabweans that they feel alienated from their government. They feel that the last 27 years has not brought the citizens closer to their government anymore than Ian Smith was closer to his subjects.
What kind of communication would be appropriate to a person like President Mugabe to help him separate the interests of his party and national interest as well as his own personal interest and national interest?
Just imaging what Zimbabwe will be like after the extended term of President Mugabe is sufficient to make many people sick. In the face of a Tsugabe (the cousin of Tsunami), Zimbabweans cannot remain indifferent when their future is continuing to be mortgaged to a future with hyperinflation, corruption, dysfunctional state, poverty and exclusion.
Afro-pessimism
Mobutu Sese Seko
Idi Amin
Sani Abacha
Jean-Bedel Bokassa
Francisco Macias Nguema
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Charles Taylor
Robert Mugabe
/bh
Idi Amin
Sani Abacha
Jean-Bedel Bokassa
Francisco Macias Nguema
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Charles Taylor
Robert Mugabe
/bh
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