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For good reason I had attempted entitling this piece interrogatively thus: "Mugabe: Till D...Read the full article.

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Dear Mr SOC

Thanks for your though provoking article which has made me realize that eventually we'll need to start ranking articles on the NVS in terms of how good or bad they are. At the end of the year, there should be prizes not just for the best, but also for the worse articles.

The stupid ones will be the most interesting to classify and award prizes for.
In terms of categories for stupidity, the possibilities are limitless though, think what fun we could have: I'm thinking there would be the merely stupid, the more stupid, the ridiculously stupid, the most stupid and the most excellently stupid, e.t.c


What do you think?

Thanks for writing

Cheers

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Invasion by who please?

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Thanks my dear deepthought. You made my day, or is it night? - Perhaps, both day and night. Interestingly some retarded Africans still don't seem to get what is ongoing. They think its all about Mugabe and Tchangerai. They are choosing to believe the crap fed by the so-called international media.

Fact is, Zimbabwe, like Iraq for sometime to come is toast. Toasted by the powers that be, and the powers that want it to. Toasted by the same enemy Mugabe is trying to fight. The friend that Tcangerai is trying to court. Head or tail the Zimbabweans have lost, and will still lose the more.

The vultures are only waiting for Mugabe to leave so that they can come back and make the gains they lost. This time around the gains will appear very fast. And then the vultures will dump the market and return to where they've been hiding all along.

This is what you get for building your economy on the goodwill of 'foreigners'.
I only hope that Bukola Saraki and his ilks will by chance be reconsidering the folly of their acts.

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soc okenwa,

there is a new research going on which will enable people to physically slap people over the internet

as soon as the research breakthrough comes , please remind me to give you a slap as big as this article of yours(if we shall call it that) is stupid and ridiculous

nonesense

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'...there is a new research going on which will enable people to physically slap people over the internet'

Indeed, the above statement shows that nero africanus is detached from reality. You profess to be afro-centric but see no wrong in the sufferings of our brothers under a despotic rule.
Mugabe has chosen to bark at the wrong tree. He inadvertently feeds the causative organisms of his own woes. He might be quite right in the issue of the land settlement but the fact of the matter is that he must go!
At 84, he has simply run out of ideas. He can continue to release canons on opposition. He can buy the conscience of the Judiciary, but to twist the arm of the truth remains a stretch. I rest my case!

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Shouldn't it be obvious to us that Zimbabweans (like Nigerians ) need to be left alone to solve their own political problems without interference from meddling outsiders who have absolutely no clue and worst still, whose intentions are suspect?

But ever on the look out for an opportunity to have some good fun ......this one is too good to pass up O!.

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You profess to be afro-centric but see no wrong in the sufferings of our brothers under a despotic rule.<

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Crasinomium et Maddelirius par Ridiculocosium :D :D


Actually, there is a formal name from this kind of logic but which IMO will never capture the rich comic value of the above, so I'm forced to to invent my own term, to wit: I've used a piglatin derivative - because , apparently, this is the kind of language most likely to impress our friends with the opposing point of view.

Lets look at another example:

To many of us, people like Obasanjo, IBB, Abacha were crazy , despotic rulers whom we detest to no end. Rulers who killed Nigerians in their thousands, ruined millions of lives and shared out/pocketed the national economy amongst their circle of friends, much in the same was as a five year old would slice and share out a birthday cake.

But because we won't support the invasion of Nigeria to "free" Nigerians, from these despots, it therefore logically follows that we:

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see no wrong in the sufferings of our brothers under a despotic rule

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Crasinomium et Maddelirius par Ridiculocosium :D


And then this:

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Mugabe has chosen to bark at the wrong tree. He inadvertently feeds the causative organisms of his own woes

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Inadvertently?
Why inadvertently? It should be known that Mugabe in a bid to ruin the Zimbabwean economy, has actually been singlehandedly running around Zimbabwe, flogging prospective foreign investors with a bulala. and turning them away.
Just last Night, we were reliably informed (by the BBC of course!) that this devious man invaded the Mozambique Port of Beira, looking for any ships ladden with goods bound for Zimbabwe. Having found about a million of these (sent by the EU), he then wantonly burn them all down, putting to the sword the entire crew of such vessels.

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but the fact of the matter is that he must go!

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Yep. But by invasion? and by whom?-
-The Nigerian people's Army? the famed liberators of Zaki and Odi?
-Or by the American liberators of Mai Lai or Iraq?

Perhaps you have in mind the battalion of celestial winged creatures stationed a few parasecs away in the Delta quadrant? Or by the storm troppers on Sirus II at the beck and call of the comic relief Amateurs United (the AU) or NATO the malodourous modern day equivalent of the Knights Templars, complete in UN white Amour , whose luminiscence is dazzling and damaging to African eyes when reflected by the African Sun?

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there is a new research going on which will enable people to physically slap people over the internet

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:D
Nice.
But this one cuts both ways O!. I'm sure there are more people waiting out there to slap me and you than we could ever slap.

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When will you write for Otta to be invaded. The people of Odi have suffered under that despot or you do not care about the suffering of your 'Nigerian' brothers and sisters too. Nigerians should clean their filthy parlors before they would be taken seriously elsewhere the greatest and longest injustice is being carried out daily in the Niger Delta for over 50years now and nobody is concerned and you want people to take you serious outside

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In many ways , Mugabe is muddling up the future of his country and compromising the possibility of sustaining the little changes made in the land redristibution exercise that has caused Zimbabwe so much pain by endlessly presenting himself for elections to the presidency. There exist ,this feeling of indispensability about Mugabe within the government circles in Harare.. , and at the rate they are going, the may embolden him to attempt ruling from the grave someday! At 84, no matter how necessary his ideologies are to the economic freedom of his people , it is time for the batton to change hands...

Yet Zimbabwe is a peculiar case. A state that has been wrechlesly turned into some sort of political football by mighty nations.... What Mugabe should have done was to find a younger, strong hearted ZANU PF member, a radical apostle of his , and position him as his partys flag bearer in the last election then proceed to RIG(yes! you read right!)..., i mean rig the hell out of that presidential election infavour of this candidate! It may sound anti-democratic, but then hungry people are always susceptible to manipulations. With a record inflation, a constant bombardment of the Zim airwaves by the BBC and VOA ,nearly three decades in power, it is obvious that a large chunk of the elctorate maybe tempted to jump ship.Yet with a proven collobration between Tsvangarai and the British , it is nearly impossible to expect a positive contribution that will help uplift the lives of the Zimbabwean people from a presidency that answers to foreign powers....

What matters here is the quality of the votes and not the quantity since hungry men are always interested in the next meal and not next years agenda. So inspite of the rantings of the opposition , it is obvious that what happened during the elctions is similar to what happened in Venezuela where a popular leader got over confident and lumped so many questions/options to be answered by the electorate with one vote in one referendum.In essence , a vote against Chaves support for the FARC in Columbia ended up amounting to a vote to end his tenure which is not the worst Venezuelans have seen. Likewise a vote to have a fresh face in Zimbabwes presidency or to find ways out of the economic crunch will end up stoping the land redistribution scheme as that means handing power over to a neocolonialist implant.

Zimbabweans have suffered a lot! But then they have come to a point of no return on the land issue. Now, it surely looks like it maybe as painfull going backwards(which is what Tvangarai will do) as it will be going forward(which is what Mugabe intends to do ,) so why not finish it off with some national pride left which seems to be the only trophy at the end of the day since this option guarrantes more participation for local black Africans in the economic development of their state.While there should be increased diplomatic efforts to narrow the differences between the west and Harare, a complete change of power in that country infavour of MDC will only undo the gains achieved since independence! In the present circumstances , as bad as zimbabwe may look , it is still better when compared to " Rhodessia".

Handing power over to Tsvangarai sounds like handing power over to HAMAS in Gaza . It is a tragic result from a democratic experiment conducted on infertile ground;hungry population,ignorance , jumpy economic situation, misinformation, western intimadtion, etc. In essence what matters here now is the future of the country and not some dubious attempt to "cement" a sterile democracy in a hungry land! So when people call for the invasion of Zimbabwe you cant help but shudder at how easily the minds of fellow Africans have been endlessly invaded by ruthless imperialists employing dangerous propanganda dished out effectively by western media houses. Invade Zimbabwe? why not Burma? Nigeria? maybe Russia too.

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I must say the critics of the Zimbabwe election have a lot of cheek, particularly the mob at Lusaka. There was no one more hypocritical than Levy Mwanawasa, the Presidnt of Zambia. This is a man with a short memory. Levy won his first presidential contest on December 27, 2001, with only 29 percent of the vote courtesy of Zambia's first past the post system. His main rival in his inaugural presidential contest, the Western anointed Anderson Mazoka, who came a close second with 27 percent of the vote disputed Levy's victory. The EU actually jumped the gun and usurped the powers of the electoral commission of Zambia to announce that Mazoka and his United Party for National Development had won the elections. Premature congratulations flowed from Western capitals provoking wild scenes of violence in Lusaka when Levy was finally declared the winner. During his re-election in September 28, 2006 he faced a strong challenge from Sata. Though Levy won with 43 percent of the vote Sata, who made a clean sweep of the cities and towns, prematurely claimed victory, again causing scenes of violence throughout Zambia when the MMD began closing the gap when the rural constituencies began reporting in.

Mozambique's second multi-party elections produced such a close contest that election officials were forced to announce the winners a whole fortnight after polling stations closed as close contests naturally demand intense verification. Just like in Zimbabwe, the close outcome left the opposition Renamo frustrated and threatening to lodge a series of complaints in the Supreme Court. Renamo threatened to make Mozambique ungovernable if Chissano was endorsed ahead of Dhlakama.

In the end Chissano and Frelimo won 133 seats, while Renamo weighed in with 117 in the 250-seat Assembly. Chissano had 52,29 percent of the vote against Dhlakama's 47,71 percent. A bitter Dhlakama dismissed the results as a "democratic farce" threatening to create "difficult conditions" for Mozambique, which was taken to be a euphemism for a return to war. But the then Sadc chair did not call a summit as it was appreciated that election systems by nature involve complex counting. And in Mozambique the system left voters, citizens, diplomats, observers and the media increasingly tense as rumours flew about Maputo fuelling charges and counter-charges of vote manipulation amid a torrent of threats from Renamo. Finally on December 22, the National Electoral Commission announced the results saying it had taken its time recording the initial vote counts as it could not be rushed or tied down by regulations. Renamo meanwhile had capitalised on the delays by holding daily Press conferences where it insisted it was winning in six of the country's 11 provinces.

Renamo's figures, of course, were were dutifully picked by some local and Western media and non-governmental organisations to a point where Renamo declared itself the winner before the CNE had made even preliminary announcements. The resultant confusion created considerable tension which, combined with Renamo's allegations of fraud and other irregularities, put the spectre of military confrontation over a country that was just coming out of a ruinous war of destabilisation. Security forces were put on high alert as Renamo demanded the elections be declared null and void and a rerun held under the supervision of the "international" community, opposition speak for the white West. The CNE stood its ground, Chissano was declared the winner and Mozambique moved ahead. It did not take a summit to achieve that. The situation was the same five years latter when Guebuza won with 64 percent of the popular vote with Dhlakama receiving 32 percent, the results took much longer to come out and again Renamo and its coalition alleged electoral fraud and denounced the result. Renamo's claims were echoed by Western observers among them the European Union and the Carter Centre. But the then SADC chair did not convene a summit.

The overseas commentators are equally hypocritica. Britain just voided another election bevcause of postal vote fraud. In an earllier electoral fraud case in Birmingham, Richard Mawrey, QC, finally lost his temper with ministers’ arrogance as he ruled that Labour had organised a conspiracy across Birmingham to win the local elections by rigging postal votes. His trial found “fraud that would disgrace a banana republic”, while ministers were in “a state not simply of complacency but of denial”.

Yet, lest we forget before getting hot under the collar about Zimbabwe's two week delay in announcing challenged votes we must remeber the mother of all such delays; the period from 7 November 2000 to 12 December 2000 which saw in the rigged election of none other than George Bush. Africans have a lot to learn about electoral fraud and they won't need to look as far as Zimbabwe for their lessons.