Just not cricket
I received this cartoon by email today. The issue of Zimbabwe and cricket is in the news again. This cartoon is old and I’m not sure where it was originally published but the story it tells is truer now than ever before.
Also in my inbox this morning was this image of Delani, who is 11 months old and had both his legs broken by Mugabe’s thugs. You can read his story here in The Times, and the image is also now on Flickr.
Update: The Times are retracting their story that this image was the result of Zanu brutality. We’ve now removed it from our Flickr account.
Both images reminded me of one of our cricket e-cards; if you haven’t seen them head over and check them all out in our ecard section of our site.
July 2nd, 2008 11:21
Zimbabweans, its time to go to the streets of Zimbabwe and claim your rights!!!! You are the ones suffering, the west, east, north, south cannot do anything. The option of sharing power with Zanu is a no go…Zanu do not take advice and criticism, they think they are always right…They are being used by satan to destroy Zimbabwe…. Zimbabwe will never ever become a colony, these Zanu PF’s are talking utter rubbish, they know it will not ever be re-colonised, they have failed the zimbabwean people and are blaming britain. Britain refused to give them money for land reform because they were giving themselves farms. If they had done the right thing and given the farms to ‘the people’, then maybe it would have worked. Zanu failed and are now making us pay… Stand Up Zimbabweans….Only you can save yourselves….Do not be afraid!!!
July 2nd, 2008 13:00
Actually Mavis,I don’t agree. We are living in a modern, interconnected world. We have seen this with An Yue Jiang and Giesecke & Devrient.
What we must do is be selective about the levers and apply them knowing the world we live in.
The duty of the ordinary citizen is like the private (foot) soldier in war - keep cover. Your job is never ever to expose yourself. Do not let the enemy have a clean shot at you. Let him walk far. Let him look here. Let him look there. Let him waste all his time and energy running around. Sit quietly and do not tell him where you are. And don’t laugh aloud when you see him wasting his energy.
We will not run around like mad things. Pick the target and go after it. Giesecke & Devrient took three months to fold. Three months - it really is amazing. I don’t know why we didn’t put pressuere on them before.
Now because we keep cover, we won’t all know what campaigns are going on. That doesn’t matter, pick your own target. Do what you can with the people you can! And when anyone wins, make sure it is well publicized. It cheers us up, it demoralizes the enemy and it brings people to our side. We need them now and we need them later as customers!
Seeing the report of President Mwanawasa being flown to Paris, I think it could be good to send well wishes to him.
A French speaker out there? Could you draft something for him as well? Nothing like doctors and nurses knowing this man is deeply respected. There is psychology in this. When they know we love him for his leadership, it will show in their behavior to him and it will increase his chances of recovery while he is so far from his family.
Focus that frustration like a missile and don’t fire till you see the white of their eyes!
July 2nd, 2008 13:58
oh my god that is evil
July 2nd, 2008 20:14
I am currently travelling in Canada and read in today’s “Globe and Mail”a piece about suspicious land dealings between the Mugabe regime and an Australian-South African dual citizen named Paul Calder LeRoux, disclosed by Canadian-Israeli Ari Ben Menashe to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Foreign Agents Registration Act. Mr.Ben Menashe was reportedly a PR agent for the Mugabe government until 2004 and received millions from these dealings.
I have written to Mr. Stephen Smith, Australia’s foreign minister, asking that he investigate whether any improper or illegal activities may have been involved.
The Globe and Mail piece can be found here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080702.wzimbabwecanadian02/BNStory/International/home
Does anyone have additional information on this?
July 2nd, 2008 22:46
Can anyone find an email direct to FIFA people so we can send them some Sokwanele e-cards… they’re brilliant! Meanwhile we can send FIFA a message via their contact page:
FIFA-Strasse 20,
P.O. Box 8044 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel : +41-(0)43 222 7777,
Fax : +41-(0)43 222 7878.
Contact page: http://www.fifa.com/contact/form.html
The controlling authority of FIFA on Friday stated that they had a contingency plan to move the World Cup away from Africa if, in their judgment, conditions were not right. It was a signal that South African leadership is on notice. Mbeki might notice?