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  Scrote at 08:31 AM JST - 22nd April

  Mugabe refuses to recognise the results of the election. It's time for other governments to refuse to recognise him as the president of Zimbabwe, starting with the spineless Mbeki.

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  skipthesong at 11:09 AM JST - 22nd April

  time for other governments to refuse to recognise him" I think the problem lies with history.. The South African government, after being under apartied for so long, feel its their duty to roll with Mugabe as he basically puts his country's whites under the same type of system.. and should any western power intervene it would cause a back lash.. I think all the world can do is wait Mugabe's life out.

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  frontandcentre at 12:57 PM JST - 22nd April

  The longer Mugabe delays his inevitable political demise, the angrier the mobs are going to get. No statue is to big not to fall.

  skipthesong - the irony is that it's the vast majority of the population - the black working class - that are by far suffering the most, not a few white people. The land grab was handled stupidly and was done simply to reward Mugabe's supporters, hence the almost total collapse of commercial agriculture in what was not long ago the 'Bread Basket of Africa'. Had it been a sensible and just reform process with compensation paid, no-one would have had too much reason to complain. Instead it was a crude political stunt, which did far more harm than good. The same applies to the banning of foreign investment. You are in the midst of a huge economic crisis and you ban foreign investment ? That's straight out of the Pol Pot school economic wisdom...

  Mugabe's socialism seems to be creating equality by making everyone equally destitute

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  redacted at 02:20 PM JST - 22nd April

  The UN is hopeless. The Commonwealth won't life a finger.

  Not surprisingly, China had hoped to cash in on the chaos and instability. and is arming Mugabe's thugs.

  But look who is slapping them down -

  "The Bush administration is intervening with governments in southern Africa to prevent a Chinese ship carrying weapons for Zimbabwe's security forces from unloading its cargo, The Associated Press has learned.

  "At the same time, the State Department's top Africa hand, Jendayi Frazer, plans to visit the region this week to underscore U.S. concerns about the shipment. Frazer also will try to persuade Zimbabwe's neighbors to step up pressure on President Robert Mugabe's government to publish results from a disputed election that the opposition claims to have won, administration officials said Monday."

  "U.S. intelligence agencies are tracking the vessel, the An Yue Jiang, and American diplomats have been instructed to press authorities in at least four nations — South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia and Angola — not to allow it to dock, the officials told The Associated Press."

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  skipthesong at 03:42 PM JST - 22nd April

  the black working class - that are by far suffering the most, not a few white people" Well, just be happy you are not one of them then. Still, I believe that any fixing to this situation is mostly bogged by what would be considered racist policies - Mugabe has the western powers right where he wants them.. As for any land grab being handled, it would have been better to make the whites till the land as a form of servitude. Personally, I can't fathom why they even stayed.

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  skipthesong at 06:16 PM JST - 22nd April

  now this is odd: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/22/us.zimbabwe.ap/index.html

  China actually has a ship bringing weapons to Mugube's forces.. What do they seek there?

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  unscrejects at 02:09 PM JST - 27th April

  Listen up y'all. Go back to October 1997 and see what the crisis is all about. The Zimbabwe story is going to make a Ludlum thriller look as interesting as "My Pet Goat". Remember how the reader ends up feeling a misture of pity and sorrow for Iago? Well you might just feel that way for one man in Zimbabwe some day.

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