I have titled it Prayer as I believe this Zimbabwe and its people are in desperate need of Gods work. (When has prayer hurt anyone) other then bring about greater good.

I think a good place to start would be getting in contact with people from Zimbabwe and enquiring their prayer needs, if neccessary encourage them to pray.

I am from South Africa and Zimbabwe is a situation close to my heart as Im sure it is to many others. It would shock South Africans to know just how much coverage there is of Zimbabwe’s situation in the UK!

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Zimbabwe, we have brother s and sisters who are starving and being beaten to death for what? Exactly

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As for Zimbabwe’s situation, how can you realistically discuss peacefull means to oust Mugabe. Know you not his language and world view.

Talk and use diplomacy and he will hit you hard physically. A mad man like that needs a hard smack across the face to make him come to his senses.

Inciting people to demonstrate en masse is a wish which is impossible to realise.

Remember the system has imprinted it into every person’s mind that you should act as an individual no wonder people get victimised individually to instill fear in them (a Smith stragey)

As TUTU said these snakes need military intervention and imprisonment.

Theorising about violence and its past is all a fad, some mordern/current problems are still being resolved violently especially with ogres like those in zanu.

Zimbabwe did indeed win independence from England through violence. That is history.

Truth be told, Zimbabweans then turned their collective backs to the murder of some 20 thousand Ndebele instead of confronting Mubgabe then and there. Hitler was actually stopped dead in his tracks by a local German mayor who stood up to Hitler early on before he usurped power over life and death as Mugabe has done through the indifference of Zimbabweans and particularly the members of ZANU-PF who, much to their chagrin, are now suffering with everyone else.

As long as “it isn’t me” go ahead and feed friends and neighbors to the crocodile was the mantra of the day. Trouble is…now it’s them too and nobody to turn to and nobody else to feed to the croc.

Dear UK, if someone is beating you over the head with a knobkerrie and you’ve asked them politely to stop many times…then what…just kneel there and be beaten to death. Great idea!

As for me, “Give me liberty or give me death”.

Quoting Lobengula to Claudia: but didn’t Zimbabwe and the United States gain independence from England through violence?

Independence???? No. What Zimbabweans won was decades of servitude to a dictator and thug who started murdering the Ndelebe two years after he got to power.

The lesson is very simple and very clear: anyone who thinks that violence is a solution should never EVER EVER EVER be allowed to rule a country.

what is that suppose to mean…because people have done it before you can do it again..haven’t we all learned from the past? how can you adjudge people using violance to get what they want and use the same arms … you obviously got a resolution, so go for it, what stops you from doing so?

WOZA and similar demonstrations, while commendable, are too easily swept aside by heavily armed and violent police.

You say violence is never the answer but didn’t Zimbabwe and the United States gain independence from England through violence?

Yours was the only answer I’ve seen with any teeth at all…ALL Zimbabweans take to the street at one time. That would overwhelm attempts at control by police intervention. Only massive numbers will work. Little groups here and there are easily crushed by the “security forces”. Time sensitive coordination is the only way that can happen and it will be very very difficult..

That could well be the start of “pressure from within”.

Any other ideas I might suggest would be censored by this site which is why I’ve never included them.

The question:

What should a people do if their government makes war on them?

So far all we have done is politely ask them not to while our people are starved, beaten, murdered, raped and humiliated to the point of a multiple disease disaster and a humanitarian debacle. Maybe WE should DO something to rid ourselves of the problem. Everyone else in the world knows what that problem is!

Afterall, the people, it seems get the Government they deserve?

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/secure/7052.htm

Gono is not the problem he is just an opportunistic idiot, who does exactly what he is told to do by his “Seniors”. Even if you bomb him today there will be another two or three who will behave quite the same.

I would suggest making sure Gono can’t go to his office anymore! It is unacceptable that his term is extended and i dont understand why there is so little public outcry over that, why people or the army didnt spontaneously block him from going to work yesterday. He is THE main cause of the economic hardships and as long as he is in there, nobody’s life will improve even a bit. Why would anybody believe his hollow promise of bringing down inflation below double digit numbers by 2013, and why does he set such an un ambigious target? by that time the country will be really gone….. the army could start turning their anger on his office and ousting him instead of on innocent civilians they are supposed to protect – their first line of duty is towards the people though they seem to have forgotten that after all those years.