Comments on: SADC disappoints, again http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/2559 This is Zimbabwe is Sokwanele's pro-democracy activist blog. It provides grassroots news and views from Zimbabwe. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:26:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: True Grit http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/2559/comment-page-1#comment-272323 True Grit Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:16:00 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=2559#comment-272323 Whatever criticisms may be left at the door of Morgan Tsvangirai, I still take my hat off to him. To seek change the hard way; by peaceful, legal, and democratic means requires great spiritual strength and leadership. Up against a tyrannical regime that has not hesitated to use force and violence from day one against all who oppose them, and who has access to all the resources of the state while seeking to defend to the utmost their miserable hold on power, was never going to be a 'pushover'. After going through four elections, with all the attendant manipulation, rigging and violence of the electoral process, MDC succeeded in March'08 to defeat Zanu-PF. Whatever Zanu-PF have done since, and a lot of it was plain degenerate evil, no matter what they will do; nothing can erase that mantle of change, that seed of hope and determination, that start of a journey into sanity, and the fair and free horizon that is to come.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('272323','True Grit'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('272323','True Grit','Whatever criticisms may be left at the door of Morgan Tsvangirai, I still take my hat off to him. To seek change the hard way; by peaceful, legal, and democratic means requires great spiritual strength and leadership. Up against a tyrannical regime that has not hesitated to use force and violence from day one against all who oppose them, and who has access to all the resources of the state while seeking to defend to the utmost their miserable hold on power, was never going to be a \'pushover\'. \r\n\r\nAfter going through four elections, with all the attendant manipulation, rigging and violence of the electoral process, MDC succeeded in March\'08 to defeat Zanu-PF. Whatever Zanu-PF have done since, and a lot of it was plain degenerate evil, no matter what they will do; nothing can erase that mantle of change, that seed of hope and determination, that start of a journey into sanity, and the fair and free horizon that is to come.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Whatever criticisms may be left at the door of Morgan Tsvangirai, I still take my hat off to him. To seek change the hard way; by peaceful, legal, and democratic means requires great spiritual strength and leadership. Up against a tyrannical regime that has not hesitated to use force and violence from day one against all who oppose them, and who has access to all the resources of the state while seeking to defend to the utmost their miserable hold on power, was never going to be a ‘pushover’.

After going through four elections, with all the attendant manipulation, rigging and violence of the electoral process, MDC succeeded in March’08 to defeat Zanu-PF. Whatever Zanu-PF have done since, and a lot of it was plain degenerate evil, no matter what they will do; nothing can erase that mantle of change, that seed of hope and determination, that start of a journey into sanity, and the fair and free horizon that is to come.

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]]> By: alf http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/2559/comment-page-1#comment-272322 alf Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:18:46 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=2559#comment-272322 The sad history of Africa repeats itself again. How long before all the continent's people wake up and fight back against presidents for life who care nothing about anyone but themselves. How soon before South African goes the same way? 20, 30 years at the most. The people of Zimbabwe have only themselves to blame.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('272322','alf'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('272322','alf','The sad history of Africa repeats itself again.\r\nHow long before all the continent\'s people wake up and fight back against presidents for life who care nothing about anyone but themselves. How soon before South African goes the same way? 20, 30 years at the most. The people of Zimbabwe have only themselves to blame.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> The sad history of Africa repeats itself again.
How long before all the continent’s people wake up and fight back against presidents for life who care nothing about anyone but themselves. How soon before South African goes the same way? 20, 30 years at the most. The people of Zimbabwe have only themselves to blame.
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