Much appreciated.

What we know is that the British Imperial government hanged the revolutionary Gogo Nehanda from a particular tree that we do not know.As Zimbabweans,we do not know too whether that tree is still alive or dead.

Another weakness of the article is the way it caricatures African economic problems. In Zim, for instance, we are told about: billionaires, about toilet papers, about the need for Gono to shut up and so on and so forth. But we are not told about the concerted effort by the white community who were aggrieved about land reform. They wanted to destabilise the economy and they had the power to do so. Yet the piece implies it was just bad governance.

And that leads me to my third gripe. The article uncritically accepts paternalistic white liberal propaganda which portrays itself as the conscience of the world. In the 1970s, for instance, NGOs like Amnesty International played a crucial role in exposing the brutality of the Pinochet regime in Chile. Yet they never explained why this brutality was taking place. If they had tried to find out the reason behind this brutality, they would have had to explain that unfettered free market economics, advocated by Milton Freedman and the Chicago boys was behind this. (Even Mrs Thatcher rejected this brand of economics when urged upon by her friend Hayek to implement in the UK on the grounds that such policies can only be implimented in a dictatorship like Chile.)

In conclusion, I make a more general point arising from the above. The article reflects a general lack of appetite for knowledge and consciousness about what is really in the interest of Africa. It adopts an uncritical acceptance of the paternalistic white liberal propaganda that serves the west. John Perkins in “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” explains very well what the American strategy is: that is, to build an empire which ensures that America has uninterrupted access to the resources of the world, no matter where they are. How it achieves this is by making poor countries heavily indebted to it through the use of its EHMs, the CIA (the jackals), and the army – in that order. And when they country cannot pay its debts, then they establish their military bases there. And in all this, “democracy”, “good governance”, “rule of law” – are the kind of phrases used – to woodwink the majority of Africans who do not bother scratch below the surface. And if the Africans do not know anything, truth does not matter, does it?

There is the post about the newspaper vendors and the plea for civility toward them. It is the same for BGLT people.

If they are Christians, and gay, they can abide by the Christian way and not be active. Yet they should be able to safely say, ‘No. I will not marry and live a lie.’ And God made them how they are…

If they are not Christian, and leave Christians alone – then crying out against them is truly wrong. People of other ways and beliefs have the right to live their religion fearlessly, even if it allows ways that are different, though harmless to the community.

I agree that the big issue of human rights needs to stay high on the work list. I also fully agree that MDC needs to get out around the electorate NOW. An invisible party quickly becomes irrelevant – and scarcely worth supporting.

Do the farmers belong to clubs or associations where they can share, and trade seeds, and spread their hard-won knowledge and skills? Or would that be dangerous for them?

Mthwakazians are appalled and disgusted by Zimbabwe and want out

And we all know – those of us living here – how and to whom the land has been distributed since ‘land reform’.

For those who are told by those racist Rhodesians that the land went to “Mugabe’s cronies”…google out “Ian Scoones Land Reform in Zimbabwe”. He will explain exactly how the land was distributed. Don’t worry he is a white guy too, so you can believe what he says.

God bless Zimbabwe and its indigenous people.