Comments on: Toll gate chaos http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/4595 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: rayaz http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/4595/comment-page-1#comment-274317 rayaz Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:51:33 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=4595#comment-274317 You Sokwanele are a big liar. I have driven through these toll gates and there is no absolute problem with the overall running of the system. You will not even spend 10 seconds on that point. STOP LYING ABOUT ISSUES YOU ARE NOT EXPERIENCING. You shameless propagandist.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('274317','rayaz'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('274317','rayaz','You Sokwanele are a big liar. I have driven through these toll gates and there is no absolute problem with the overall running of the system. You will not even spend 10 seconds on that point. STOP LYING ABOUT ISSUES YOU ARE NOT EXPERIENCING. You shameless propagandist.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> You Sokwanele are a big liar. I have driven through these toll gates and there is no absolute problem with the overall running of the system. You will not even spend 10 seconds on that point. STOP LYING ABOUT ISSUES YOU ARE NOT EXPERIENCING. You shameless propagandist.
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]]> By: Sokwanele http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/4595/comment-page-1#comment-274315 Sokwanele Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:30:33 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=4595#comment-274315 The comments are not censored David - they are moderated in line with our principles, and I believe there is a difference and I do not believe that this threatens free speech. Sokwanele's objective is to promote democracy, free speech, tolerance, respect and non violence etc. We are ultimately an advocacy group and we have to decide whether it is in the interest of our objectives to allow our blog to be used as a platform for anything which works against our core values or not. We have decided to keep our blog focussed entirely on our objectives. Almost any opinion will be published provided it is articulated respectfully and without hate racism violence etc. So our moderation policy is not a barrier to free speech, its a challenge to express different views in a civilised way in line with the values of <b>tolerance</b> and <b>respect</b> for all readers from different backgrounds. A big plus for visitors to the site, is that the moderation also prevents spammers from littering our comments with endless adverts for odd medications, where to sell your gold, or forex trading! As robust as our spam control is, it's like trying to hold back a tidal wave. You'd have to read a lot of rubbish to find the proper comments if we didn't moderate. :) Hope.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('274315','Sokwanele'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('274315','Sokwanele','The comments are not censored David - they are moderated in line with our principles, and I believe there is a difference and I do not believe that this threatens free speech. Sokwanele\'s objective is to promote democracy, free speech, tolerance, respect and non violence etc. We are ultimately an advocacy group and we have to decide whether it is in the interest of our objectives to allow our blog to be used as a platform for anything which works against our core values or not. We have decided to keep our blog focussed entirely on our objectives. Almost any opinion will be published provided it is articulated respectfully and without hate racism violence etc. So our moderation policy is not a barrier to free speech, its a challenge to express different views in a civilised way in line with the values of <b>tolerance<\/b> and <b>respect<\/b> for all readers from different backgrounds. \r\n\r\nA big plus for visitors to the site, is that the moderation also prevents spammers from littering our comments with endless adverts for odd medications, where to sell your gold, or forex trading! As robust as our spam control is, it\'s like trying to hold back a tidal wave. You\'d have to read a lot of rubbish to find the proper comments if we didn\'t moderate.\r\n\r\n:)\r\n\r\nHope.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> The comments are not censored David – they are moderated in line with our principles, and I believe there is a difference and I do not believe that this threatens free speech. Sokwanele’s objective is to promote democracy, free speech, tolerance, respect and non violence etc. We are ultimately an advocacy group and we have to decide whether it is in the interest of our objectives to allow our blog to be used as a platform for anything which works against our core values or not. We have decided to keep our blog focussed entirely on our objectives. Almost any opinion will be published provided it is articulated respectfully and without hate racism violence etc. So our moderation policy is not a barrier to free speech, its a challenge to express different views in a civilised way in line with the values of tolerance and respect for all readers from different backgrounds.

A big plus for visitors to the site, is that the moderation also prevents spammers from littering our comments with endless adverts for odd medications, where to sell your gold, or forex trading! As robust as our spam control is, it’s like trying to hold back a tidal wave. You’d have to read a lot of rubbish to find the proper comments if we didn’t moderate.

:)

Hope.

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]]> By: David Wheeler http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/4595/comment-page-1#comment-274314 David Wheeler Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:05:34 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=4595#comment-274314 And - while I am still in rant mode - I think that it would be a good idea - for a while at least - to remove the censorship of comments on this website. Let us try some freedom of speech. There may be a lot of foolish comments made, but let's listen to them, and answer them, rather than suppressing them. Either we are for freedom of speech or we are against it. David Wheeler.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('274314','David Wheeler'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('274314','David Wheeler','And - while I am still in rant mode - \r\n\r\nI think that it would be a good idea - for a while at least - to remove the censorship of comments on this website. Let us try some freedom of speech. There may be a lot of foolish comments made, but let\'s listen to them, and answer them, rather than suppressing them. Either we are for freedom of speech or we are against it.\r\n\r\nDavid Wheeler.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> And – while I am still in rant mode –

I think that it would be a good idea – for a while at least – to remove the censorship of comments on this website. Let us try some freedom of speech. There may be a lot of foolish comments made, but let’s listen to them, and answer them, rather than suppressing them. Either we are for freedom of speech or we are against it.

David Wheeler.

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]]> By: David Wheeler http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/4595/comment-page-1#comment-274313 David Wheeler Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:01:20 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=4595#comment-274313 These stories absolutely exasperate me. There are millions of Zimbabweans overseas, many of whom would be a great asset to our beautiful country, looking ever-hopefully towards home. And these stories are just nauseous - another form of taxation, badly organised and executed, with absolutely no accountability or guarantee, that any significant portion of the money collected will be used for the purpose, for which it has been supposedly collected. I note that a huge wage hike has also recently been announced - back-dated by a number of months. This can only be a deliberate attempt to kill off any businesses, which have managed to survive as long as they have. I know wages are low, and I know wage hikes are necessary. However no honest business can absorb the losses caused by back-dated expenses. How can they budget for this? Wage increases must be announced in advance with sufficient time for businesses to adjust. What on earth is the point of killing off the last vestiges of business surviving in Zimbabwe? David Wheeler.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('274313','David Wheeler'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('274313','David Wheeler','These stories absolutely exasperate me. There are millions of Zimbabweans overseas, many of whom would be a great asset to our beautiful country, looking ever-hopefully towards home. And these stories are just nauseous - another form of taxation, badly organised and executed, with absolutely no accountability or guarantee, that any significant portion of the money collected will be used for the purpose, for which it has been supposedly collected.\r\nI note that a huge wage hike has also recently been announced - back-dated by a number of months. This can only be a deliberate attempt to kill off any businesses, which have managed to survive as long as they have. I know wages are low, and I know wage hikes are necessary. However no honest business can absorb the losses caused by back-dated expenses. How can they budget for this? Wage increases must be announced in advance with sufficient time for businesses to adjust. What on earth is the point of killing off the last vestiges of business surviving in Zimbabwe?\r\n\r\nDavid Wheeler.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> These stories absolutely exasperate me. There are millions of Zimbabweans overseas, many of whom would be a great asset to our beautiful country, looking ever-hopefully towards home. And these stories are just nauseous – another form of taxation, badly organised and executed, with absolutely no accountability or guarantee, that any significant portion of the money collected will be used for the purpose, for which it has been supposedly collected.
I note that a huge wage hike has also recently been announced – back-dated by a number of months. This can only be a deliberate attempt to kill off any businesses, which have managed to survive as long as they have. I know wages are low, and I know wage hikes are necessary. However no honest business can absorb the losses caused by back-dated expenses. How can they budget for this? Wage increases must be announced in advance with sufficient time for businesses to adjust. What on earth is the point of killing off the last vestiges of business surviving in Zimbabwe?

David Wheeler.

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