Is today the last day of tyranny..?
Another of our workers just got home.
He slept at his polling station last night and says he was in the company of hundreds of people doing the same.
They will be returning tonight to wait for the vote to be posted on the door of the station.
He tells me that one school is home to two polling stations and the queue endless.
He also tells me that they are openly speaking in front of the police, saying today is the last day of tyranny.
March 29th, 2008 16:57
I hope that there is a peacefull change of government so that the citizens of Zimbabwe can look forward to a brighter future. I am afraid that under Mugabe, who has brought this once great country to its knees, this will not be possible. He cannot keep blaming the western countries for the problems affecting Zimbabwe, for it is he who has had many years with the power to change things for the better of all his citizens. I pray for a safe trasition of government and for the future of Zimbabwe
March 30th, 2008 11:37
NO… today will not be the last day of tyranny, If mugabe is deposed, he will just be replaced by a different self serving person. It will be wonderful promises again followed by flag waving,lies, deceit, corruption and violence.
Who is the new leader?
Zimbabwe will take many many years to get back to the condition the country was in in 1980.We inherited a functional entity in 1980 and have totally and utterly ruined it.
Now we stand around like bewildered children having deliberately broken all their toys, tearfully asking the west for aid, crying to the new colonialists, the chinese communists who are all too eager to embark on their liebensraum.
We Zimbabweans should hang our heads in shame for having allowed this corrupt pariah state to exist, for our complacency, lack of responsibility, indolence and laissez faire attitudes.
Unless all Zimbabweans learn from their mistakes of the past they are doomed to repeat these mistakes again and again and again.
Will a new leader be aracial (colour blind) No, I doubt it.
Will a new leader be sufficiently objective to permit equal rights and responsibilities for all regardless of skin pigmentation? No, I doubt it.
Will a new leader abandon this corrosive and corrupt tribalism that is the curse of Africa? No, I doubt it.
So, in 2020 will we still be sitting on our lazy butts in the sun drinking tshwala under the Msasa’s blaming someone else (the west??, the whites??) for all our self inflicted troubles??? Probably…
Will prayer to some uncaring and undifferent god help ? NO…..
March 30th, 2008 15:27
Its funny to realize there’re still some pessimistic fools who still give comments on tribal grounds. Unless that mentality changes then some people will forever be suppressed. DO YOU STILL WANT GUKURAHUNDI? We have one enemy here, Mugabe. thats all