Petrol coupons the new currency in Zimbabwe

It is important that the African continent stand side by side with each member state to help each other during hard times. Africa live in a world where countries that enslaved the African people and have destroy many part of the world are roaming the world to impose their supremacy in every corner of the world with Africa the part they play with the most.

President Mugabe has been saying the USA and the UK want to impose their puppet in Zimbabwe, and that is the pure truth as seen by these countries history and current actions in Zimbabwe and many other part of the world.

The economic trouble Zimbabwe is facing is purely engineered by these oppressive countries in a bid to preserve their supremacy in Zimbabwe. After what we endured in the hands of those countries we should be allergic to their meddling.

it is important that the African people also realize that 90% if the news we consume about Zimbabwe on the local media are produced by our oppressors or former oppressors news organizations that never willingly gave up their terror against the African people, that mean they will always pursue their dark agenda as long as they are not reformed.

i call on every African person to oppose neo-colonialism and support president Mugabe for an Africa free of neo-colonialism and the western Europeans entity domination.

There is obviously some powerful ganga available in Zimbabwe, judging by In Mugabe we Trust's comment. Perhaps they could use this as currency?

Great, please now give us a new story. I will give you the same old one. Lest we forget Mugabe has the great status of committing genocide against his own, namely the Matebele people. He has one of the biggest overseas bank account of any African leader. He and his cronies have used terror tactics to stay in power. Any popularity he enjoys has either been purchased or a result of the propaganda dished up to people who actually know no better and therefore can’t judge properly. His country is bankrupt, agriculture has collapsed and his people are starving to death. Zimbabwe, once a breadbasket of Africa has become a basket-case itself. It is so easy to blame the rest of the world, your parents, your potty training whatever when you mess things up, but basically all of this pain could have been avoided if Zimbabwe had not fallen into the hands of an ideological & racist meglomaniac. Regret he doesn't only think and act like Hitler he looks more and more like him everyday. Note the moustache it’s a dead giveaway! He will never ever win the respect of the majority of his people and has definitely lost it internationally!

To – ‘in Mugabe we trust’ – reading your post I realized just how effective the propaganda of the Mugabe regime has been. You obviously have no clue how a modern state operates – ie concepts such as democracy, independent judiciary, independent media, etc. These are the prerequisites for a prosperous society. I am afraid you deserve the leader you have and the country you have created. Nobody wants to live there, not even Zimbabweans who are fleeing in search of a better life – Mugabe has taken the country back to a barter economy, the highest inflation in the world, etc. – it is pathetic and a disgrace to try and blame it on the ‘west’ – the nightmare will continue until people like yourself start to wake up and smell the roses!!

It is sad to see that some people are still so blinkered and myopic to think 'heaven' of Mugabe despite the chaos that he has caused in the once beautiful country.

Countries that uphold democracy would walk the talk and as such would never put any dictator on a pedestal, be it African or whatever. As such Mugabe will have to walk alone on this because he doesn't belong to the democratic African leaders' league. Simple as. The west's targeted sanctions are aimed at certain individuals and not the general populace of Zimbabwe. People like In Mugabe we trust are so brainwashed by their masters to believe that sanctions are meant to cripple Zimbabwe as a country. In irony the food being donated by the west is rotting in warehouses because Mugabe wants to starve the masses. Come on, Zimbabwe surely its high time you see through this scam. Yes, indeed wake up and smell the roses!

To " In Mugabe We Trust"-
Dear Sir/Madam......I do not know how people like you can even post such a comment like the one you have posted here. Please brother/sister stop blaming the west. Wake Up!!! Wake up!!!-I feel powerless to even go on writing because I think it would be a waste of time because the brain washing that has been done to you-I think cannot be reversed-and I think the other commentators are right in saying you deserve the Zimbabwe you are living in. We in South Africa are having to deal with an exodus of people because of a situation that your Mugabe has failed to address...Have you ever heard of good governance? Do you know what is accountability? Freedom of the press, a good judicial system etc---Do such words ring a bell to you?? If not please go back to school....and then come and post a comment here. Problem with us as a people is that once we have been given power-we forget who gave us the mandate to lead...Mugabe was placed there by the people (i mean maybe in 1980, 1985 and 1990....and after that???), and if the people do not want him-it means he has to go?? However because of the greed.....he does not want to let go.....You know I am tired/ we are tired of people like you....because it is obvious that you are benefitting from this situation...you would not want it to change...reminds me of countries like HAITI, where even when people are suffering like hell..there is still a population that do not want change. I feel sorry for you, and I pray that the real people of ZIMBABWE, those that take pride in their country will prosper, as for you " In Mugabe we Trust" go back to school or find a dictionary.

To – 'in Mugabe we trust'
- "Stand together" - Like in Somalia, Darfur, etc.?
- What exactly does Zim have left to offer that the rest of world would want?

The facts are real. Neo-Colonialism is what is happening across Africa. Forget about the Genocide in Zimbabwe, as we should also bring the French to account for the genicide, murders in Rwanda as they were heavily involved. The investigation have just revealed that, France's late president, Francois Mitterrand, and former prime minister Dominique de Villepin were among a dozen French officials fingered in the report for providing support of "a political, military, diplomatic and logistic nature." Villepin was at the time the chief aide to foreign minister Alain Juppe, who was also named in the report, as well as then-prime minister Edouard Balladur. Twenty military officials were also accused of involvement,, according to a report from Agence France Presse. How come we are not calling for the entire French Government to be taken to The Hague and that the sanctions should be put immediately on France and The ICC has gone quiet, why? One of the moral, high ground accusers arenow being called to take account of their actions in 1994 Genocide atrocities in Rwanda. Same applies in 2008 it shall come out of what is happeninh in Zimbabwe. don't worry about what the media says. Zimbabwe shall embarrass alot of them. I have never read anything positive about Zimbabwe, how shallow.

The facts are real. Neo-Colonialism is what is happening across Africa. Forget about the Genocide in Zimbabwe, as we should also bring the French to account for the genicide, murders in Rwanda as they were heavily involved. The investigation have just revealed that, France's late president, Francois Mitterrand, and former prime minister Dominique de Villepin were among a dozen French officials fingered in the report for providing support of "a political, military, diplomatic and logistic nature." Villepin was at the time the chief aide to foreign minister Alain Juppe, who was also named in the report, as well as then-prime minister Edouard Balladur. Twenty military officials were also accused of involvement,, according to a report from Agence France Presse. How come we are not calling for the entire French Government to be taken to The Hague and that the sanctions should be put immediately on France and The ICC has gone quiet, why? One of the moral, high ground accusers arenow being called to take account of their actions in 1994 Genocide atrocities in Rwanda. Same applies in 2008 it shall come out of what is happeninh in Zimbabwe. don't worry about what the media says. Zimbabwe shall embarrass alot of them. I have never read anything positive about Zimbabwe, how shallow.

To Francois Retief. One thing you should remember is the truth is painful at times, but the people who are crossing illegally into South Africa as reported by a negative media, does not make South African media independent or democratic. Prosperity is not measured such a method. Russia and China are completely prosperous even though their judiciary and media are not as you mention. The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi controlls all the media institutions of Italy, and its not propaganda as long as its happening in Europe. Africans are so ignorant and shallow that they just swallow everything being pushed by the Governments, is just one of the ignorance being displayed here. China is the richest country, Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, but we apply different rules to different countries, why is that?

Who owns and controlls South Africa shall be known in the coming few months. Let me be the first to inform you, is that the petrol coupons are just that, petrol coupons. The South African media is very baised. The True value of the Rand shall will be known soo, and Tito Mboweni should go back to his home country. President Musharraf lost an election, but he is still President and called the most Democratic President. How come he fired The Supreme Court Judge. The is a problem with what is being said here, double talk, one is a dictator and the other is an ally. One comes through a Coup to overthrow a legitimately elected President, and then a prominent opposition leader is assassinated and the international community kept quiet, why? Then there is a coup in Mauritania, AND THE MEDIA is blind and deaf. But come Zimbabwe, hey the whole nobodies cry foul and call an innocent man names. Why?

You know what, I think The Mugabe We Trust, is right.When Everisto Kamera and Zulu attack without cause is correct. The Look East Policies of Mugabe of 2000 is actaully a Study Case in the USA University. Here is some of the FACTS. Take or leave them, because it wont change the truth, but it might help remove the blickers off your eyes.

Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, presides over one of the world's richest minerals treasures, the Great Dyke region, which cuts a geological swath across the entire land from northeast to southwest. The real background to the pious concerns of the Bush Administration for human rights in Zimbabwe in the past several years is not Mugabe's possible election fraud or his expropriation of white settler farms. It is the fact that Mr. Mugabe has been quietly doing business, a lot of it, with the one country which has virtually unlimited need of strategic raw materials Zimbabwe can provide— China . Mugabe's Zimbabwe is, along with Sudan, on the central stage of the new war over control of strategic minerals of Africa between Washington and Beijing, with Moscow playing a supporting role in the drama. The stakes are huge.

Zimbabwe 's President, Robert Mugabe is a very very bad man. This we all know from reading the newspapers or hearing the pronouncements of George W. Bush, earlier Britain 's Tony Blair and more recently Gordon Brown. In their eyes he has sinned badly. They charge that he is a dictator; that he has expropriated, often with violence, the farms of whites as part of land reform; they claim he rigged his re-election by vote fraud and violence; that he has ruined the economy of Zimbabwe .

Whether Robert Mugabe deserves to be in Washington 's honor roll of villains alongside Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Milosevic, Ahmadinejad, and Adolf Hitler, however, it is not the reason Washington and London have made Zimbabwe regime change priority number one for their Africa policy.

What his sin is seems to have more to do with his attempts to get out from under Anglo-American neo-colonial serfdom dependency and to pursue a national economic development independent of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. His real sin seems to be the fact that he has turned to the one nation that offers his government credits and soft loans for economic development with no strings attached—The Peoples' Republic of China.

Western media accounts conveniently tend to omit the second major party to what is a huge tug of war between Anglo-American interests and China to get control of Zimbabwe 's vast mineral wealth. We should keep in mind that for Washington there are always “good dictators” and “bad dictators.” The difference is whether the given dictator serves US national interests or not. Mugabe clearly is in the latter category.

Zimbabwe is the name of what under the era of British Imperialism a century ago was named Rhodesia . The name Rhodesia came from the British imperial strategist and miner, Cecil Rhodes, founder of the Rhodes scholarships to Oxford , and author of a plan for a vast private African zone, to be chartered from the Queen of England, from Egypt to South Africa . Cecil Rhodes created the British South Africa Company, modeled on the East India Company, along with his partner, L. Starr Jameson of Jameson Raid notoriety, to exploit the mineral riches of Rhodesia . It controlled what was later named Northern Rhodesia ( Zambia ) and Southern Rhodesia-Nyasaland. The model was that the British Government would assume all risks to militarily defend Rhodes ' looting while Rhodes and his London bankers, above all Lord Rothschild, who was a close associate, would assume all the gains of the business.

Rhodes, a seasoned geologist, knew well that there was a remarkable geological fault running from the mouth of the Nile at the Gulf of Suez south through Sudan , Uganda , Tanzania , down through today's Zimbabwe on to South Africa . Rhodes had already instigated several wars to gain control of the diamonds of Kimberly and the gold of Witwatersrand in South Africa . This geological phenomenon he, as well as enterprising German explorers, had discovered in the 1880's. They named it the Great Rift Valley .

Rhodesia , like South Africa after the bloody Boer wars, was settled by white settlers to secure future minerals gains for allied interests of the City of London , mainly those of the powerful Oppenheimer family and their gold and diamond enterprises in the region.

In 1962 when Africa was undergoing the wave of national liberation from colonial rule, a wave calculatedly supported by “non-colonial power” Washington, Rhodesia was one of the last bastions, along with former British colony South Africa, of white Apartheid rule. Whites in Rhodesia constituted only 1-2% of the total population so their methods of holding on to power were rather ruthless.

White supremacist Prime Minister, Ian Smith, declared Rhodesian independence from Britain in 1965 rather than agree to the slightest compromise on race or power sharing with black nationalists. Britain got UN trade sanctions imposed to force Smith to buckle under. Despite sanctions, there was considerable support from conservative business interests in London . Britain 's Tiny Rowland, head of the Lonrho mining conglomerate, secured the bulk of his African profits from Rhodesian copper mining and related ventures under the Smith regime. The City of London knew very well what riches lay in Rhodesia . The question was how to secure enduring control. Smith's Rhodesian backers had little interest in giving it all to London .

Following a long and bloody struggle, in 1980 the leader of the black African Popular Front coalition, Robert Mugabe, overwhelmingly won election as the first Prime Minister of a new Zimbabwe . Twenty eight years later, the same Robert Mugabe is under escalating attack from the West, especially Zimbabwe's former colonial master, England, including strong economic sanctions designed to bring the country to the brink of collapse, to force him to open the economy to foreign (read Anglo-American and allied) investment. Ironically, the issue seems not all that different from the Ian Smith era: London and US control of the resources of the rich land, and Zimbabwean efforts to resist that control.

Monsanto Seeds Company, knowing the facts and forgetting about the GMO story of wanting to feed the whole world and increase food. Guess who countered Monsanto's plan in Africa, you wont believe it but its true and this company controlls seeds throughout Africa. Its SeedCo Of Zimbabwe.

The United States Government has been financing research on a genetic engineering technology which, when commercialized, will give its owners the power to control the food seed of entire nations or regions. The Government has been working quietly on this technology since 1983. Now, the little-known company that has been working in this genetic research with the Government’s US Department of Agriculture-- Delta & Pine Land-- is about to become part of the world’s largest supplier of patented genetically-modified seeds (GMO), Monsanto Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri.

Relations between Monsanto, Delta & Pine Land and the USDA, on closer scrutiny, show the deep and dark side of the much-heralded genetic revolution in agriculture. It proves deep-held suspicions that the Gene Revolution is not about ‘solving the world hunger problem’ as its advocates claim. It’s about handing over control of the seeds for mankind’s basic food supply—rice, corn, soybeans, wheat, even fruit, vegetables and cotton—to privately owned corporations. Once the seeds and their use are patented and controlled by one or several private agribusiness multinationals, it will be they who can decide whether or not a particular customer—let’s say for argument, China or Brazil or India or Japan—whether they will or won’t get the patented seeds from Monsanto, or from one of its licensee GMO partners like Bayer Crop Sciences, Syngenta or DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred International.

None so blind as will not see.

Africa`s mess is a result of Africa`s leaders. I have no more "western colonial guilt". Take responsibility for the hell on earth you have created. Wake up Mugabe`s supporters your day of judgment will come.

To Thuthukani Mkhize. Mr Mkhize, let's for argument sake accept that Mr Mugabe is a good man and a good African leader, let's even say he is the best ever.

I would still like to know how do you, for yourself, for example when you go to bed and think about things, like we all do, think about the following:

Should a country, any country, have a president for life, even if that means longer then 28 years, even if his is the best president ever? When you think about it, how many countries in the entire world could you name that have a president (today) like that? Or should we be proud of Mr Mugabe for that?

Not undermining the huge importance of history, in all parts of the world and human kind, do you think the same political ideals and solutions from let's say 30 years ago still apply today? I mean, should we go on forever talk about history our should we look at the world how it is today and try to go ahead with out lives?

Do you think comparing with other bad examples in other parts of the world or history serves as a good excuse for doing the same bad things?

Are all black people that critisize Mr Mugabe puppets of America and Britain? All of them?

Do all black people that critizise Mr Mugabe even like Britain and America?

Why is it that Zanupf leaders for the last 8 years keep telling everybody that the Zimbabwe economy is on the way up again, and that the Zimbabwe dollar will soon increase in value. What I try to understand is why is it that day after day, month after month, year after year they really do believe that? Year after year, and still today, as if reality totally escapes them? Just as a test: Isn't it that even today you are still convinced of that yourself?

Still lying on your bed and thinking and thinking, how do you feel about a vote counting that takes more then a month and then one one that takes less then 12 hours? I would like to know, how does your mind in all honesty digest such things?

Do you also think that gay people are worse then dogs and pigs?

When you think about it to your opnion which employers threat there employees the best in terms of respect? The new Chinese employers? Do you feel comfortable with the new Chinese owners in Zimbabwe?

From those that you personally know, do the Zanupf employers, let's say the wealthy ones, at their houses, pay their staff well?

Do you think (still lying on your bed) that beating up opposition leader Mr Tsvangirai was ok?

Do you think President Mbeki was wright when he said Aids was not sexually transmitted? When he said there was no crisis in Zimbabwe? When he said there was no xenophobia? When he said (already in 2000 to President Bush) that he only needed maximum one year to solve the political problems in Zimbabwe?

Do you think all British and American people are bad? Also all their children?

Do you think French people or bad? Or Dutch? Or Italians? Or Egyptians? Or Senegalese? Or Tibetians? Or all white? Or also the coloured? Our only their leaders and politicians? Where exactly is it that you draw the line?

Do you think there is Britisch or American mum's and dad's that care about their family and friends, just as there are Zimbabwean good people that care about their family and friends?

Do you think the majority of Zimbabwean people are being mislead and they don't understand the Zimbabwean history and that's why they don't like Mr Mugabe anymore? Is that why when the Zimbabwe people now speak about OUR PRESIDENT in fact they speak about Mr Tsvangirai? Is it because they are being mislead, or don't they have enough brains, or no brains at all?

Do you think that the whole world is wrong about Mr Mugabe? Do you think that all European governments are wrong? That they don't understand anything of the thruth as you see it?

Do you ever really question yourself about these things? Like we all sometimes question ourselfs about our strongest beliefs?

Do you really think only the Zanupf people have brains and understand history? And the rest of the world is all wrong?

I am not saying you are wrong, I am just asking if you sometimes question yourself if there could be a tiny possibility that maybe you could be a little bit wrong, a tiny little bit?

How would you live with yourself if one day you would start questioning the ideas that you defend today? How would it make you think about your part of the responsibility of the suffering of your Zimbabwean brothers and sisters in their millions?

I sincerely hope that Zimbabwe will one day wake up from this terrible seemingly never ending nightmare, and that prosperity may come back to the Zimbabwe people. The Zimbabwe people deserve that. In that respect they are no different then any other people on our planet. Americans, Britains and Chinese alike. Maybe think about that.

Do you not know, Thuthukani Mkhize that the world is really tired of ideologists and those who peddle only one point of view? Have you not grown up to the fact that all people are corrupt to one extent or another? Do you really think that the 'Wicked West' is to blame for all the evil in the world, for the corrupt/compromised leaders of Africa or for their overly accepting and poorly informed citizens? Do you appreciate how much harm has been done in the world by ideologues?

These corrupt/compromised 'relationships' are a product of the interaction of both parties, or of guilty interactions held in private, out of the public view. The problem with your perception of reality is that it is far too selective and one dimensional. They show their origins in prejudice, national and racial stereotypes. Any of these ideas of yours carried to their logical extreme end up blaming and hurting people who are innocent. Also your tendency to look to conspiracy theories is also typical of this kind of prejudice. Have you read Animal Farm by George Orwell? Do you think the probable bribery going on around the SA arms deal was just a product of greedy arms merchants, or was it the lack of integrity on the part of those recipients of ‘incentives’? Like all evil and all compromise it involves and interaction between both or all parties.
Maybe when you have an argument in your family you put it down to one person, isn't that just a bit naieve? It takes two to tango!

To j c and Andrew Lawrence. Things are not as simple as you think. The ruling elite is not a phenomenon of Africa, but the West and Europe. The common man who works hard will never rule, so when you hear of Obama saying change, he is not talk in generality, its much deeper than that. The entire structures of power is an inbred and there are ruling stocks which might and will never be understood, because we are looking at the simplest form of explaining things. Believe whatever you want, it wont change the outcome of power. Look the entire House of Lords comprises of people who get there because of blood lines, nothing else, which rule is that. Its peerage and these people are not voted into office. The Capitol Hill in Washington, 90% of the Senators are there because of the very same system. Terms of office and reference is important. Just because a system which limits the terms of office that work in the US should not just be imposed on any other country. Because the Three Round Pin plug is used in South Africa it does mean its the best system. The Americans use a two pin plug and 110 voltage, that works perfectly for them, but their electric goods wouldn't work properly outside that country because , here we use 240. So introducing Presidential Term Limits has its advantages and disadvantages. The UK does not have a limit on their Prime Ministers.

We should understand the term called mature democracies and infancies democracies and immature democracies and non democracies. The present UK Government and the French Governments are socialists, so are they democratic as according to the definition of the work. China is a Communistic Government, operating with a Capitalist outlook, but that does not make it less democratic as the US or UK. The power behind the power is relatively the same. There are things which can never be accepted as correct but it does not mean its not true. Tolerance does not mean democratic, but it means acceptance to operate without interfernce as that particular thing might be beneficiary to the society or country. Just because people overwhelmly voted for change, it does not mean that they want Tsvangirai to be President, otherwise they would have given him 100% support. Just because The party is called Movement of Democratic Change, that it is democratic. Lets debunk this further, Movement means shifting but not consent and without a solid foundation. Change without real transformation, but merely to remove a person using a democratic system, but without changing what matters, but changing to return to a status quo. So anyone can make promises, without delivering those things.

to all those who consider themselves intelligent:
things are not what they appear to be in international affairs like politics, wars, finance & business.
unfortunately, the media (including this paper)is under the control of those who wish to conceal the truth of their activities and intentions.
for every bit if info they give you, you can bet theres 10 things they are not telling you.
this is becuse they cannot let you know these thing, not because they dont know it.
i am an indian muslim and mr Mugabe is not my favourite person but i know that theres MUCH MORE to the story than what we know.

to all those who consider themselves intelligent:
things are not what they appear to be in international affairs like politics, wars, finance & business.
unfortunately, the media (including this paper)is under the control of those who wish to conceal the truth of their activities and intentions.
for every bit if info they give you, you can bet theres 10 things they are not telling you.
this is becuse they cannot let you know these thing, not because they dont know it.
i am an indian muslim and mr Mugabe is not my favourite person but i know that theres MUCH MORE to the story than what we know.

my main gripe with Mugabe (& most African Leaders)is that he lives a comfortable ,if not luxurious life while the people are going through very hard times.
so its easy for him to tell the west "you cant tell me what to do"
if his stomach was empty, it would be another story.
a real leader is the servant of his people- he is there to serve the nation, not that the nation should serve him because he is the Chief, President, King or whatever- this is the downfall of many African Kings, Chiefs and presidents.
thet abuse the power and think they are entitled to it.
of course, they are nothing when compared th the Colonialists/imperialists & the Internatinal bankers