Comments on: Zimbabwe Business Watch : Week 26 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/4331 This is Zimbabwe is Sokwanele's pro-democracy activist blog. It provides grassroots news and views from Zimbabwe. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:20:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Graham (the original) http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/4331/comment-page-1#comment-274171 Graham (the original) Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:12:18 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=4331#comment-274171 According to the Zimbabwe Standard, the IMF, the World Bank and the African Development Bank have told Zimbabwe it cannot get more funds until it pays its currentl debts. "As at the end of May, Zimbabwe owed IMF US$138 million and World Bank (US$676 million). It also owed African Development Bank US$438 million as at the end of April." Given that it was the rest of the world who unashamedly approved Mugabe's emergence as a virtual dictator in 1980, supplied him with weapons and military advice, stood idly by during his Gukurahundi massacres, ignored his xenophobia and ethnic cleansing of white farms, and his rape of our diamond and wildlife resources, and given that the SADC were the ones who failed to effectively intervene in Zimbabwe's subsequent human and economic disaster, a cynic might be forgiven for now insisting that it is the rest of the world, not ordinary Zimbabweans, who should be the ones paying off Mugabe's debt burden.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('274171','Graham (the original)'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('274171','Graham (the original)','According to the Zimbabwe Standard, the IMF, the World Bank and the African Development Bank have told Zimbabwe it cannot get more funds until it pays its currentl debts.\r\n\r\n\"As at the end of May, Zimbabwe owed IMF US$138 million and World Bank \r\n(US$676 million). It also owed African Development Bank US$438 million as at \r\nthe end of April.\"\r\n\r\nGiven that it was the rest of the world who unashamedly approved Mugabe\'s emergence as a virtual dictator in 1980, supplied him with weapons and military advice, stood idly by during his Gukurahundi massacres, ignored his xenophobia and ethnic cleansing of white farms, and his rape of our diamond and wildlife resources, and given that the SADC were the ones who failed to effectively intervene in Zimbabwe\'s subsequent human and economic disaster, a cynic might be forgiven for now insisting that it is the rest of the world, not ordinary Zimbabweans, who should be the ones paying off Mugabe\'s debt burden.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> According to the Zimbabwe Standard, the IMF, the World Bank and the African Development Bank have told Zimbabwe it cannot get more funds until it pays its currentl debts.

“As at the end of May, Zimbabwe owed IMF US$138 million and World Bank
(US$676 million). It also owed African Development Bank US$438 million as at
the end of April.”

Given that it was the rest of the world who unashamedly approved Mugabe’s emergence as a virtual dictator in 1980, supplied him with weapons and military advice, stood idly by during his Gukurahundi massacres, ignored his xenophobia and ethnic cleansing of white farms, and his rape of our diamond and wildlife resources, and given that the SADC were the ones who failed to effectively intervene in Zimbabwe’s subsequent human and economic disaster, a cynic might be forgiven for now insisting that it is the rest of the world, not ordinary Zimbabweans, who should be the ones paying off Mugabe’s debt burden.

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]]> By: Graham (the original) http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/4331/comment-page-1#comment-274165 Graham (the original) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:46:23 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=4331#comment-274165 Petrol prices in Australia are between US$1.05 and US$1.30 per litre. In Europe it's more. So Zimbabwe, as a land-locked country, is simply coming into line with the rest of the world. Welcome to reality.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('274165','Graham (the original)'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('274165','Graham (the original)','Petrol prices in Australia are between US$1.05 and US$1.30 per litre. In Europe it\'s more.\r\n\r\nSo Zimbabwe, as a land-locked country, is simply coming into line with the rest of the world. Welcome to reality.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Petrol prices in Australia are between US$1.05 and US$1.30 per litre. In Europe it’s more.

So Zimbabwe, as a land-locked country, is simply coming into line with the rest of the world. Welcome to reality.

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