Comments on: 200 Zimbabweans seek refuge at the American Embassy in Harare http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161 This is Zimbabwe is Sokwanele's pro-democracy activist blog. It provides grassroots news and views from Zimbabwe. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:49:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Mfan'ekhaya http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161#comment-255500 Mfan'ekhaya Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:05:43 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1161#comment-255500 I see lots of Chinese swarming Zim and giving military advice and training like the Cubans were doing in Angola and Mozambique. I know there would be triggerhappy so -called war vets possibly 16 year olds etc who would fall for this and be the canon fodder for a would be long dead dictator then. Chew on this folks!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('255500','Mfan\'ekhaya'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('255500','Mfan\'ekhaya','I see lots of Chinese swarming Zim and giving military advice and training like the Cubans were doing in Angola and Mozambique. \r\n\r\nI know there would be triggerhappy so -called war vets possibly 16 year olds etc who would fall for this and be the canon fodder for a would be long dead dictator then.\r\n\r\nChew on this folks!'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> I see lots of Chinese swarming Zim and giving military advice and training like the Cubans were doing in Angola and Mozambique.

I know there would be triggerhappy so -called war vets possibly 16 year olds etc who would fall for this and be the canon fodder for a would be long dead dictator then.

Chew on this folks!

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]]> By: Ants http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161#comment-255271 Ants Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:16:33 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1161#comment-255271 I wouldn't worry about Zim going to war with it's neighbours. They are either too stupid to know the difference between right and wrong, or too gutless to do anything about it. Eitherway - no war.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('255271','Ants'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('255271','Ants','I wouldn\'t worry about Zim going to war with it\'s neighbours.\r\n\r\nThey are either too stupid to know the difference between right and wrong, or too gutless to do anything about it.\r\n\r\nEitherway - no war.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> I wouldn’t worry about Zim going to war with it’s neighbours.

They are either too stupid to know the difference between right and wrong, or too gutless to do anything about it.

Eitherway - no war.

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]]> By: Refugesta http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161#comment-255182 Refugesta Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:49:24 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1161#comment-255182 We used to make those sack blankets for the tomato plants too. Now people flee from their homes to beg for safety at foreign embassies, in our own country. We are a nation made homeless in our own country, a nation starved, maimed, raped and murdered by its own government.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('255182','Refugesta'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('255182','Refugesta','We used to make those sack blankets for the tomato plants too. Now people flee from their homes to beg for safety at foreign embassies, in our own country. We are a nation made homeless in our own country, a nation starved, maimed, raped and murdered by its own government.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> We used to make those sack blankets for the tomato plants too. Now people flee from their homes to beg for safety at foreign embassies, in our own country. We are a nation made homeless in our own country, a nation starved, maimed, raped and murdered by its own government.
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]]> By: Sally http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161#comment-255181 Sally Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:42:50 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1161#comment-255181 Someone has said that Zimbabwe will implode. Apparently it is promising to explode. Our president on arrival in Zimbabwe has warned neighbouring states not to provoke him. I wonder what he means. Does he define words of caution and restraint from other SADC regional LEADERS as provocation? Is he demanding recognition as a president after being denounced as an election thief by the very SADC protocol to which he should be a signitory. First of all, why did he hold the elections if wanted to win. He could have declared that in his state no elections are to be held. And guess what many people would be alive today. What a clumsy cling to a thin veil of legitimacy. Has this man gone mad or high on a deception that he is invincible even to the SADC region? How big are his balls for him to think he can bully his own countrymen and the rest of the SADC region. Does his 1987 executive presidential powers sxtend to the SADC. What a truck load of ZANU pooh!!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('255181','Sally'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('255181','Sally','Someone has said that Zimbabwe will implode. Apparently it is promising to explode. Our president on arrival in Zimbabwe has warned neighbouring states not to provoke him. I wonder what he means. \r\n\r\nDoes he define words of caution and restraint from other SADC regional LEADERS as provocation? Is he demanding recognition as a president after being denounced as an election thief by the very SADC protocol to which he should be a signitory.\r\n\r\nFirst of all, why did he hold the elections if wanted to win. He could have declared that in his state no elections are to be held. And guess what many people would be alive today. What a clumsy cling to a thin veil of legitimacy. \r\n\r\nHas this man gone mad or high on a deception that he is invincible even to the SADC region? How big are his balls for him to think he can bully his own countrymen and the rest of the SADC region. Does his 1987 executive presidential powers sxtend to the SADC. What a truck load of ZANU pooh!!'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Someone has said that Zimbabwe will implode. Apparently it is promising to explode. Our president on arrival in Zimbabwe has warned neighbouring states not to provoke him. I wonder what he means.

Does he define words of caution and restraint from other SADC regional LEADERS as provocation? Is he demanding recognition as a president after being denounced as an election thief by the very SADC protocol to which he should be a signitory.

First of all, why did he hold the elections if wanted to win. He could have declared that in his state no elections are to be held. And guess what many people would be alive today. What a clumsy cling to a thin veil of legitimacy.

Has this man gone mad or high on a deception that he is invincible even to the SADC region? How big are his balls for him to think he can bully his own countrymen and the rest of the SADC region. Does his 1987 executive presidential powers sxtend to the SADC. What a truck load of ZANU pooh!!

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]]> By: Faraway http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161#comment-255177 Faraway Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:26:52 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1161#comment-255177 If the AU summit finished on Tuesday, why has Mugabe arrived back on Friday? Doesn't he know there is a crisis going on in his country? What's the story? Doing some duty free shopping or something?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('255177','Faraway'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('255177','Faraway','If the AU summit finished on Tuesday, why has Mugabe arrived back on Friday? Doesn\'t he know there is a crisis going on in his country? What\'s the story? Doing some duty free shopping or something?'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> If the AU summit finished on Tuesday, why has Mugabe arrived back on Friday? Doesn’t he know there is a crisis going on in his country? What’s the story? Doing some duty free shopping or something?
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]]> By: exbulawayo http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161#comment-255173 exbulawayo Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:08:20 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1161#comment-255173 I agree "in the middle of winter" and the nation has small babies and children, do they have to pay for all of this madness ?The elderly as well needs warmth and good food. Where are the people to come and take control of this nightmare ?This must end now, no more blood spilling please, we need to rebuild a once prosperous and still beautiful country that so many want to visit again.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('255173','exbulawayo'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('255173','exbulawayo','I agree \"in the middle of winter\" and the nation has small babies and children, do they have to pay for all of this madness ?The elderly as well needs warmth and good food. Where are the people to come and take control of this nightmare ?This must end now, no more blood spilling please, we need to rebuild a once prosperous and still beautiful country that so many want to visit again.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> I agree “in the middle of winter” and the nation has small babies and children, do they have to pay for all of this madness ?The elderly as well needs warmth and good food. Where are the people to come and take control of this nightmare ?This must end now, no more blood spilling please, we need to rebuild a once prosperous and still beautiful country that so many want to visit again.
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]]> By: S Davies http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161#comment-255035 S Davies Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:50:13 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1161#comment-255035 I just can't get my head past the thought "...and in the middle of WINTER!" Growing up in Harare/Salisbury, I used to enjoy the Winters, certainly more than the miserable polluted Johannesburg winters of more recent experience. There is so much beauty in a clear Zimbabwe Winter's day... We had a good house in Greendale with no draughts, we had blankets and quilts, electric heaters. We had "winter pyjamas" of warmer stuff and we wore thick jerseys mostly home knitted. On our way to school we wore stockings, scarves and gloves in addition to our jerseys and blazers. And with all this, we still knew it was COLD. White frost on the grass in the morning, ice on the bird bath, sometimes a black frost; tender plants and young trees had to be wrapped in sacking or sometimes got a little kaya of their own with thatch. A bone chilling cold would set in as the sun went down. Although Zimbabwe is in the tropics, the main cities of Harare and Bulawayo are at high altitude. This is what I can't accept: that people including many small children and elderly people, are outdoors ALL NIGHT in below-zero conditions.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('255035','S Davies'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('255035','S Davies','I just can\'t get my head past the thought \"...and in the middle of WINTER!\" \r\n\r\nGrowing up in Harare\/Salisbury, I used to enjoy the Winters, certainly more than the miserable polluted Johannesburg winters of more recent experience. There is so much beauty in a clear Zimbabwe Winter\'s day...\r\n\r\nWe had a good house in Greendale with no draughts, we had blankets and quilts, electric heaters. We had \"winter pyjamas\" of warmer stuff and we wore thick jerseys mostly home knitted. On our way to school we wore stockings, scarves and gloves in addition to our jerseys and blazers. \r\n\r\nAnd with all this, we still knew it was COLD. White frost on the grass in the morning, ice on the bird bath, sometimes a black frost; tender plants and young trees had to be wrapped in sacking or sometimes got a little kaya of their own with thatch. A bone chilling cold would set in as the sun went down. \r\n\r\nAlthough Zimbabwe is in the tropics, the main cities of Harare and Bulawayo are at high altitude. This is what I can\'t accept: that people including many small children and elderly people, are outdoors ALL NIGHT in below-zero conditions.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> I just can’t get my head past the thought “…and in the middle of WINTER!”

Growing up in Harare/Salisbury, I used to enjoy the Winters, certainly more than the miserable polluted Johannesburg winters of more recent experience. There is so much beauty in a clear Zimbabwe Winter’s day…

We had a good house in Greendale with no draughts, we had blankets and quilts, electric heaters. We had “winter pyjamas” of warmer stuff and we wore thick jerseys mostly home knitted. On our way to school we wore stockings, scarves and gloves in addition to our jerseys and blazers.

And with all this, we still knew it was COLD. White frost on the grass in the morning, ice on the bird bath, sometimes a black frost; tender plants and young trees had to be wrapped in sacking or sometimes got a little kaya of their own with thatch. A bone chilling cold would set in as the sun went down.

Although Zimbabwe is in the tropics, the main cities of Harare and Bulawayo are at high altitude. This is what I can’t accept: that people including many small children and elderly people, are outdoors ALL NIGHT in below-zero conditions.

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]]> By: duke http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161#comment-254988 duke Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:01:29 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1161#comment-254988 Peace be with the reader. Take courage, the time has come. The harvest is ripe. The Faithful Witness<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('254988','duke'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('254988','duke','Peace be with the reader.\r\nTake courage, the time has come.\r\nThe harvest is ripe.\r\n\r\nThe Faithful Witness'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Peace be with the reader.
Take courage, the time has come.
The harvest is ripe.

The Faithful Witness

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]]> By: sokukwanile! http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161#comment-254953 sokukwanile! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:30:35 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1161#comment-254953 Okunje soku beyond ukuyangisa<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('254953','sokukwanile!'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('254953','sokukwanile!','Okunje soku beyond ukuyangisa'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Okunje soku beyond ukuyangisa
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]]> By: Faraway http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161#comment-254886 Faraway Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:59:08 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1161#comment-254886 The Crisis Action group have done well in Germany. Latest is the blocking of Zimbabwe from a trade function. http://www.swradioafrica.com/news030708/german030708.htm their contact info: Crisis Action org http://www.crisisaction.org/en/contact.php<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('254886','Faraway'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('254886','Faraway','The Crisis Action group have done well in Germany. Latest is the blocking of Zimbabwe from a trade function.\r\nhttp:\/\/www.swradioafrica.com\/news030708\/german030708.htm\r\n\r\ntheir contact info:\r\nCrisis Action org\r\nhttp:\/\/www.crisisaction.org\/en\/contact.php'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> The Crisis Action group have done well in Germany. Latest is the blocking of Zimbabwe from a trade function.
http://www.swradioafrica.com/news030708/german030708.htm

their contact info:
Crisis Action org
http://www.crisisaction.org/en/contact.php

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]]> By: Peter http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161#comment-254800 Peter Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:04:04 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1161#comment-254800 Greetings from New Zealand. We have seen quite a bit on our news about the events continually unfolding in Zimbawe. I cannot imagine such a life, so offer my sympathy and respect for all citizens of your country seeking an end to the 'madnes'... Take care Peter<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('254800','Peter'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('254800','Peter','Greetings from New Zealand. We have seen quite a bit on our news about the events continually unfolding in Zimbawe. I cannot imagine such a life, so offer my sympathy and respect for all citizens of your country seeking an end to the \'madnes\'...\r\nTake care\r\nPeter'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Greetings from New Zealand. We have seen quite a bit on our news about the events continually unfolding in Zimbawe. I cannot imagine such a life, so offer my sympathy and respect for all citizens of your country seeking an end to the ‘madnes’…
Take care
Peter
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]]> By: To'Yo http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161#comment-254711 To'Yo Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:08:15 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1161#comment-254711 If the virtual and real global community fail in the Mission of Zimbabwe in bring back the lovely sealing of democracy the lesson can be, that our picture. I read the other day some one saying 15 generation... i am not to optimistic...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('254711','To\'Yo'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('254711','To\'Yo','If the virtual and real global community fail in the Mission of Zimbabwe in bring back the lovely sealing of democracy the lesson can be, that our picture. I read the other day some one saying 15 generation... i am not to optimistic...'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> If the virtual and real global community fail in the Mission of Zimbabwe in bring back the lovely sealing of democracy the lesson can be, that our picture. I read the other day some one saying 15 generation… i am not to optimistic…
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]]> By: mama http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1161#comment-254543 mama Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:04:57 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1161#comment-254543 just in case you have not seen this http://www.avaaz.org/en/zimbabwe_chance_for_peace/50.php Any news on the Woza Ladies bail hearing today?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('254543','mama'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('254543','mama','just in case you have not seen this http:\/\/www.avaaz.org\/en\/zimbabwe_chance_for_peace\/50.php\r\n\r\nAny news on the Woza Ladies bail hearing today?'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> just in case you have not seen this http://www.avaaz.org/en/zimbabwe_chance_for_peace/50.php

Any news on the Woza Ladies bail hearing today?

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