Comments on: Bearer cheques, not election results … http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/834 This is Zimbabwe is Sokwanele's pro-democracy activist blog. It provides grassroots news and views from Zimbabwe. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:03:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Sokwanele http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/834/comment-page-1#comment-180681 Sokwanele Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:29:37 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/834#comment-180681 Have a look at <a href="http://www.sokwanele.com/map/all_breaches" rel="nofollow">this link too, where we mapped the election conditions on the ground</a> in the months running up to elections. We plan to re-visit this for post-election violence, but at the moment are waiting for court rulings to set the parameters of our work. Hope<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('180681','Sokwanele'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('180681','Sokwanele','Have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sokwanele.com\/map\/all_breaches\" rel=\"nofollow\">this link too, where we mapped the election conditions on the ground<\/a> in the months running up to elections.\r\n\r\nWe plan to re-visit this for post-election violence, but at the moment are waiting for court rulings to set the parameters of our work.\r\n\r\nHope'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Have a look at this link too, where we mapped the election conditions on the ground in the months running up to elections.

We plan to re-visit this for post-election violence, but at the moment are waiting for court rulings to set the parameters of our work.

Hope

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]]> By: Jo http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/834/comment-page-1#comment-180655 Jo Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:18:22 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/834#comment-180655 Hello Samuel You might like to follow this link here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7336372.stm As far as I know there isn't a mashup going yet for the post election violence. The Kenya mashup www.ushahidi.com might be worth emulating. I am sure people could do with so help adapting that one and then those of us without IT skills could try raise the money to host it in Joburg. The SMS link is important in Africa as most people don't have internet. I am sure Zimbabweans would like to thank you for thinking of us and would welcome any support you can provide.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('180655','Jo'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('180655','Jo','Hello Samuel\r\n\r\nYou might like to follow this link here. \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/7336372.stm\r\n\r\nAs far as I know there isn\'t a mashup going yet for the post election violence. The Kenya mashup www.ushahidi.com might be worth emulating. I am sure people could do with so help adapting that one and then those of us without IT skills could try raise the money to host it in Joburg. The SMS link is important in Africa as most people don\'t have internet.\r\n\r\nI am sure Zimbabweans would like to thank you for thinking of us and would welcome any support you can provide.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Hello Samuel

You might like to follow this link here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7336372.stm

As far as I know there isn’t a mashup going yet for the post election violence. The Kenya mashup http://www.ushahidi.com might be worth emulating. I am sure people could do with so help adapting that one and then those of us without IT skills could try raise the money to host it in Joburg. The SMS link is important in Africa as most people don’t have internet.

I am sure Zimbabweans would like to thank you for thinking of us and would welcome any support you can provide.

Reply to this comment — http://www.ushahidi.com might be worth emulating. I am sure people could do with so help adapting that one and then those of us without IT skills could try raise the money to host it in Joburg. The SMS link is important in Africa as most people don\’t have internet.\r\n\r\nI am sure Zimbabweans would like to thank you for thinking of us and would welcome any support you can provide.’); return false;”>Quote from this comment
]]> By: Samuel Mann http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/834/comment-page-1#comment-179079 Samuel Mann Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:49:11 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/834#comment-179079 Noktula, I work in the area of Computing for Sustainability. While enabling forums such as this, it seems that computing is not helping your plight. Do you know of anyone in the Zimbabawe IT industry that we might be able to talk with about this? It's not at all clear from the outside whether you are at a state of information infrastructure collapse, and if you are, do you need/want help? Cheers SaM<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('179079','Samuel Mann'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('179079','Samuel Mann','Noktula,\r\n\r\nI work in the area of Computing for Sustainability. While enabling forums such as this, it seems that computing is not helping your plight. Do you know of anyone in the Zimbabawe IT industry that we might be able to talk with about this? It\'s not at all clear from the outside whether you are at a state of information infrastructure collapse, and if you are, do you need\/want help?\r\nCheers\r\nSaM'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Noktula,

I work in the area of Computing for Sustainability. While enabling forums such as this, it seems that computing is not helping your plight. Do you know of anyone in the Zimbabawe IT industry that we might be able to talk with about this? It’s not at all clear from the outside whether you are at a state of information infrastructure collapse, and if you are, do you need/want help?
Cheers
SaM

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]]> By: proud Australian http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/834/comment-page-1#comment-176011 proud Australian Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:52:52 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/834#comment-176011 The whole world is watching the Zimbabwean election results - and waiting for Mugabe to give up and get out. I believe he will flee - I just hope my country would not take him. We all watch and grieve for the Zimbabwean people. We all watch and hold our breath and cross our fingers and pray.....God bless you all and good luck. We all hope you get what you deserve - a fair, honest government for the people, elected by the people. The kindest of regards, Australia<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('176011','proud Australian'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('176011','proud Australian','The whole world is watching the Zimbabwean election results - and waiting for Mugabe to give up and get out. I believe he will flee - I just hope my country would not take him. We all watch and grieve for the Zimbabwean people. We all watch and hold our breath and cross our fingers and pray.....God bless you all and good luck. We all hope you get what you deserve - a fair, honest government for the people, elected by the people. The kindest of regards, Australia'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> The whole world is watching the Zimbabwean election results - and waiting for Mugabe to give up and get out. I believe he will flee - I just hope my country would not take him. We all watch and grieve for the Zimbabwean people. We all watch and hold our breath and cross our fingers and pray…..God bless you all and good luck. We all hope you get what you deserve - a fair, honest government for the people, elected by the people. The kindest of regards, Australia
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]]> By: Jo http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/834/comment-page-1#comment-175969 Jo Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:13:39 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/834#comment-175969 Thanks as ever for the news. I couldn't bear the anxiety last night - I was hyperventilating and didn't want to eat. So I cheated a little, took a sleeping pill, and had a merciful blackout of my own for 8 hours. I have used your 'money' information in a post with information from elsewhere. The ZWD gained 50% in value last weekend and has plummeted by 33% in the last two days. We are still ahead I guess but we have squandered that initial gain in confidence. I was thinking about what the ordinary person can do. And the money trail made me think about the role of confidence in a country. If I am confident of you, you can be confident in me. And if we are confident in each other, we are willing to do business. The exchange rate is a direct reflection of that confidence and our belief in each other to make a place where we will be safe. So how can we as individuals help create a climate of confidence? I think we can show respect for differences. If each of us took the view "You don't believe in me but I believe in you" we could so something like, approach, say, 3 people who are in the 'opposition' (however we define that personally) with no purpose but to be generally pleasant and to make their day better. We could use tomorrow, Sunday, to consider how to make Zimbabwe a safe place for our enemies. Emotion is very contagious and I suspect that in no time at all Zimbabwe might be moving towards that place where we can say "I don't like what you say but I will defend to the last your right to say it". And would this make a difference? Would it take us forward? Has my good night's sleep made my light headed? What does everyone else think?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('175969','Jo'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('175969','Jo','Thanks as ever for the news. I couldn\'t bear the anxiety last night - I was hyperventilating and didn\'t want to eat. So I cheated a little, took a sleeping pill, and had a merciful blackout of my own for 8 hours.\r\n\r\nI have used your \'money\' information in a post with information from elsewhere. The ZWD gained 50% in value last weekend and has plummeted by 33% in the last two days. We are still ahead I guess but we have squandered that initial gain in confidence.\r\n\r\nI was thinking about what the ordinary person can do. And the money trail made me think about the role of confidence in a country. If I am confident of you, you can be confident in me. And if we are confident in each other, we are willing to do business. The exchange rate is a direct reflection of that confidence and our belief in each other to make a place where we will be safe.\r\n\r\nSo how can we as individuals help create a climate of confidence? I think we can show respect for differences. If each of us took the view \"You don\'t believe in me but I believe in you\" we could so something like, approach, say, 3 people who are in the \'opposition\' (however we define that personally) with no purpose but to be generally pleasant and to make their day better. We could use tomorrow, Sunday, to consider how to make Zimbabwe a safe place for our enemies. \r\n\r\nEmotion is very contagious and I suspect that in no time at all Zimbabwe might be moving towards that place where we can say \"I don\'t like what you say but I will defend to the last your right to say it\". And would this make a difference? Would it take us forward?\r\n\r\nHas my good night\'s sleep made my light headed? What does everyone else think?'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Thanks as ever for the news. I couldn’t bear the anxiety last night - I was hyperventilating and didn’t want to eat. So I cheated a little, took a sleeping pill, and had a merciful blackout of my own for 8 hours.

I have used your ‘money’ information in a post with information from elsewhere. The ZWD gained 50% in value last weekend and has plummeted by 33% in the last two days. We are still ahead I guess but we have squandered that initial gain in confidence.

I was thinking about what the ordinary person can do. And the money trail made me think about the role of confidence in a country. If I am confident of you, you can be confident in me. And if we are confident in each other, we are willing to do business. The exchange rate is a direct reflection of that confidence and our belief in each other to make a place where we will be safe.

So how can we as individuals help create a climate of confidence? I think we can show respect for differences. If each of us took the view “You don’t believe in me but I believe in you” we could so something like, approach, say, 3 people who are in the ‘opposition’ (however we define that personally) with no purpose but to be generally pleasant and to make their day better. We could use tomorrow, Sunday, to consider how to make Zimbabwe a safe place for our enemies.

Emotion is very contagious and I suspect that in no time at all Zimbabwe might be moving towards that place where we can say “I don’t like what you say but I will defend to the last your right to say it”. And would this make a difference? Would it take us forward?

Has my good night’s sleep made my light headed? What does everyone else think?

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