Prospects dim for Zim peace deal

When a country gains independence, that means self governing and self determination on all aspects of everyday running of the country. The prospects are not dim, but they are dim for those who had agenda of reversing all the gains of independence. Land being at the centre of all the problems, these all Africa should fight to gain complete controll of their resources. In the US and Europe all the land belongs to the natives, so why should the natives of Africa just be tenants in their own countries, and the foreigners or settlers be the landlords.

Odinga is trying to get Tsvangirai in the same job he holds in Kenya. They are friends. He is teaching him the game. Everybody wants their name up in lights. Kenya is falling apart. Didn't Odinga see what is happening to Brown in Uk". He is about to be thrown out on his rear from Downing St. He had better go pay attention to the lives of his people that he claims he fought so deperately to improve. Kenya and Zim are not the same. I also take issue with the write of this article. For what it's worth, two black brothers are sitting together and trying to hammer out a deal. Why do you write this fatalistic article?. You spread doom and gloom like a pay-day pauper. They are TRYING to save Zim. The prospects are dim for the land thieves not the indiginous people. Why don't you go home and go wash clothes or cook or farm?. OOps!. I forgot. You can't farm, the Africans got the farms from Mugabe.

Right, gain control of the resources, that's exactly what has been happening with Mugabe's cronies and sychophants. Big question what resources do you think are left that are not in his own and his friends Swiss (or other) bank accounts. Oh yes, excluding those which have been sold to Zimbabwe's new colonial masters, China, South Africa etc. He sold your birthright for a 'mess of potage". Sorry its all gone.

It is not true to say that in Europe and America all the land belongs to the natives. Anyone can buy land in Britain whether native or not. Most of the best properties in London are owned by foreigners. The Russians can buy football clubs; the Indians can buy car companies; the Arabs can buy casinos. The basic principle of the British economic system is that free trade and open investment policies benefit everyone in the society, "native" or not. Countries like tiny Singapore have become rich since independence because they understood economics. Too bad nobody in Zimbabwe's government does.

It came as no suprise that the oldest and most reviled political scum crawling the African political landscape (Omar Bongo, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Paul Biya) were the first ones to congratulate Mugabe for his savage and most shameful political acrobatics. For once, I just hope these ancient creatures of West Africa can leave us alone to sort out Southern African problems. Zimbabwe refugees are chocking South Africa, Botswana and Zambia, not Malabo, Yaounde or Gabon, its about time they minded their own damn business.