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		<title>By: Talking Points for 10 June &#171; BBC World Have Your Say</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/alexmatthews/2008/04/24/we-must-prevent-a-zimbabwean-genocide/comment-page-1/#comment-39707</link>
		<dc:creator>Talking Points for 10 June &#171; BBC World Have Your Say</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] sanctions? Military intervention? Diplomacy? [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Abel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Abel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 09:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Listen up, Mr Todd Kidd: At the heart of the matter are people, and so let&#039;s try to grow up and overcome the useless and and destructive loop of race talk. Would you care to explain how you can put your fond abstractions before the fundamental and dire needs of suffering millions? Now, Mr Kidd, you do not know my race or my nationality, whether I am black, brown, white, spotted, striped, African, Martian, European, American, Asian, or Inuit. So you needn&#039;t feel obliged either to attack or defend me on these grounds. Instead, I invite you to clarify whether it&#039;s just that you prefer to defend deadly conservative political thuggery -- that your preference is for government by dictatorship and cronyism, and complete disregard for democracy and the actual people who constitute a poplation an a country. Please let us all know what political or sociological profile you are shielding beneath your outdated, meaningless and obfuscatory race talk.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listen up, Mr Todd Kidd: At the heart of the matter are people, and so let&#8217;s try to grow up and overcome the useless and and destructive loop of race talk. Would you care to explain how you can put your fond abstractions before the fundamental and dire needs of suffering millions? Now, Mr Kidd, you do not know my race or my nationality, whether I am black, brown, white, spotted, striped, African, Martian, European, American, Asian, or Inuit. So you needn&#8217;t feel obliged either to attack or defend me on these grounds. Instead, I invite you to clarify whether it&#8217;s just that you prefer to defend deadly conservative political thuggery &#8212; that your preference is for government by dictatorship and cronyism, and complete disregard for democracy and the actual people who constitute a poplation an a country. Please let us all know what political or sociological profile you are shielding beneath your outdated, meaningless and obfuscatory race talk.</p>
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		<title>By: Lyndall Beddy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lyndall Beddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 02:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Haiwa Tigere

What will civil war achieve - except more dead people? However, if you think it will work, leave the comfort of your computer and come and help start it. Risk your own life - not other peoples lives.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Haiwa Tigere</p>
<p>What will civil war achieve &#8211; except more dead people? However, if you think it will work, leave the comfort of your computer and come and help start it. Risk your own life &#8211; not other peoples lives.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter.W</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/alexmatthews/2008/04/24/we-must-prevent-a-zimbabwean-genocide/comment-page-1/#comment-29875</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter.W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Toddkidd,

If whites have no right to speak up in Africa, then - by your logic - blacks have no rights to speak up in America ? Presumably you should emigrate to Africa ?

I assume you don&#039;t believe in Martin Luther King&#039;s philosophy ?

Logic 101 was not taught at your college, right ?!?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Toddkidd,</p>
<p>If whites have no right to speak up in Africa, then &#8211; by your logic &#8211; blacks have no rights to speak up in America ? Presumably you should emigrate to Africa ?</p>
<p>I assume you don&#8217;t believe in Martin Luther King&#8217;s philosophy ?</p>
<p>Logic 101 was not taught at your college, right ?!?</p>
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		<title>By: African</title>
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		<dc:creator>African</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ todd kidd
You criticize Mr Matthews about writing about Zimbabwe as a white person, yet you are an American, not an African. What gives you the right or makes you an authority on Africa and Zimbabwe? Brother, either move to Zimbabwe, or stick to what you know. Anyway, the Western empire is on the wane in my pov. The centre of power is - no, not moving to Africa, but east, to China. In the mean time, Africa needs to get its house in order.

@ Mnumzana Mongameli
Your illogical, poorly-written ranting makes little sense. Perhaps Mr. Kidd can join you and XNM in Zimbabwe, if you are so much in favour of mad Bob&#039;s pan-African vision. Good luck with that dream. Really.

@XNM
As for Bush, yes, like Mugabe he is as another dangerous idiot in my pov. Difference being that Bush screws up other countries rather than his own. And for the record, I distrust the large corporates immensely, but is does that give Mugabe the right to subjugate his own people? What make him better than Anglo American when he is stealing from his own people, while the latter is only “salivating”?

I suppose it is okay for a brother to be oppressed by another brother - as long as the crimes are not perpetrated by a &quot;white, chinese or arab&quot;, then all is fine.

&quot;So-called violence&quot;? You guys make me ashamed of being an African. Let us stop with the excuses. Wrong is wrong, as Moyo said in another blog.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ todd kidd<br />
You criticize Mr Matthews about writing about Zimbabwe as a white person, yet you are an American, not an African. What gives you the right or makes you an authority on Africa and Zimbabwe? Brother, either move to Zimbabwe, or stick to what you know. Anyway, the Western empire is on the wane in my pov. The centre of power is &#8211; no, not moving to Africa, but east, to China. In the mean time, Africa needs to get its house in order.</p>
<p>@ Mnumzana Mongameli<br />
Your illogical, poorly-written ranting makes little sense. Perhaps Mr. Kidd can join you and XNM in Zimbabwe, if you are so much in favour of mad Bob&#8217;s pan-African vision. Good luck with that dream. Really.</p>
<p>@XNM<br />
As for Bush, yes, like Mugabe he is as another dangerous idiot in my pov. Difference being that Bush screws up other countries rather than his own. And for the record, I distrust the large corporates immensely, but is does that give Mugabe the right to subjugate his own people? What make him better than Anglo American when he is stealing from his own people, while the latter is only “salivating”?</p>
<p>I suppose it is okay for a brother to be oppressed by another brother &#8211; as long as the crimes are not perpetrated by a &#8220;white, chinese or arab&#8221;, then all is fine.</p>
<p>&#8220;So-called violence&#8221;? You guys make me ashamed of being an African. Let us stop with the excuses. Wrong is wrong, as Moyo said in another blog.</p>
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		<title>By: dynamo</title>
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		<dc:creator>dynamo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice. Thank you Alistair Budd who seems to comprehend the true extent of the irony.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice. Thank you Alistair Budd who seems to comprehend the true extent of the irony.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter.W</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter.W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now there&#039;s a statement ! Mnumzana is not racist but believes that Africa belongs to those who make the best use of it - so long as they are not white, chinese or arab. Who does that leave? 

Mnumzana - surely you expect white racists to acknowledge that they were/are racists ? Yet you don&#039;t measure yourself by the same yardstick ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now there&#8217;s a statement ! Mnumzana is not racist but believes that Africa belongs to those who make the best use of it &#8211; so long as they are not white, chinese or arab. Who does that leave? </p>
<p>Mnumzana &#8211; surely you expect white racists to acknowledge that they were/are racists ? Yet you don&#8217;t measure yourself by the same yardstick ?</p>
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		<title>By: mnumzana mongameli</title>
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		<dc:creator>mnumzana mongameli</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i am not, have never been and am incapable of being a RACIST my primary identity first and foremost is that i am Afrikan, and as such i am should feel at home in any Afrikan country, both on the continent and in the Carribean and vele fo sho i am living in Zimbabge.i believe the continent will belong to those who will make the best use of it (for as long as they are not white,arabic or chinese)

look, the point of the matter is White hegemony is on the way out in SADC but that is not to say whites,coloureds and indians have no future in SADC.you are all just as Afrikan as i am but you need to learn to acknowledge that identity marawyz you&#039;ll become irrelevant in the long run. the new black thought rejects domination and detrimental influence from previously advantaged minority groups.believe me Bob might be going now but no self respecting Zimbabgean will ever allow himself to be dominated by whites in the way South Afrikans do.

I also believe in the concept of responsible leadership renewal and in respecting the will of the people, we voted the dude out but that does not mean because he&#039;s going let&#039;s all now give up our sovereignty and sell our souls to the devil and embrace Bretton Woods and or Beijing.therein lies my nkinga with the MDC. with the removal of the &quot;evil strong men&quot; Afrika seems to be breeding a new crop of idiotic leaders in the mould of John Kuffour, Raila Odinga, Jacob Zuma, Mwai Kibaki, Laurent Gbagbo, King Mswati and of course our very own Morgan &quot;teaboy swankson&quot; Tsvangirai, who are ideologically unsound and devoid of the ideals of Uhuru as defended by Presidents Kikwete, Guebuza,Yaradua,Wade and WaMutharika.the struggle ain&#039;t over yet until the whole of SADC is finally free.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i am not, have never been and am incapable of being a RACIST my primary identity first and foremost is that i am Afrikan, and as such i am should feel at home in any Afrikan country, both on the continent and in the Carribean and vele fo sho i am living in Zimbabge.i believe the continent will belong to those who will make the best use of it (for as long as they are not white,arabic or chinese)</p>
<p>look, the point of the matter is White hegemony is on the way out in SADC but that is not to say whites,coloureds and indians have no future in SADC.you are all just as Afrikan as i am but you need to learn to acknowledge that identity marawyz you&#8217;ll become irrelevant in the long run. the new black thought rejects domination and detrimental influence from previously advantaged minority groups.believe me Bob might be going now but no self respecting Zimbabgean will ever allow himself to be dominated by whites in the way South Afrikans do.</p>
<p>I also believe in the concept of responsible leadership renewal and in respecting the will of the people, we voted the dude out but that does not mean because he&#8217;s going let&#8217;s all now give up our sovereignty and sell our souls to the devil and embrace Bretton Woods and or Beijing.therein lies my nkinga with the MDC. with the removal of the &#8220;evil strong men&#8221; Afrika seems to be breeding a new crop of idiotic leaders in the mould of John Kuffour, Raila Odinga, Jacob Zuma, Mwai Kibaki, Laurent Gbagbo, King Mswati and of course our very own Morgan &#8220;teaboy swankson&#8221; Tsvangirai, who are ideologically unsound and devoid of the ideals of Uhuru as defended by Presidents Kikwete, Guebuza,Yaradua,Wade and WaMutharika.the struggle ain&#8217;t over yet until the whole of SADC is finally free.</p>
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		<title>By: japes</title>
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		<dc:creator>japes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Al,

100%. The SA governemnts inaction is actually a &quot;crime against the people&quot; of Zim and SA. For all the sycophantic Mugabe supporters, this blind support for dictators who play the Goebbels-like tune of whites, colonialism, apartheid etc being to blame for everything, you are helping perpetuate the myth that black people are stupid.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Al,</p>
<p>100%. The SA governemnts inaction is actually a &#8220;crime against the people&#8221; of Zim and SA. For all the sycophantic Mugabe supporters, this blind support for dictators who play the Goebbels-like tune of whites, colonialism, apartheid etc being to blame for everything, you are helping perpetuate the myth that black people are stupid.</p>
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		<title>By: Al</title>
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		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mugabe has created an internal problem for SA: 2.5 million plus Zimbabweans who have come here (historic migration is a drop in the ocean compared with the present numbers). It&#039;s an SA problem, which SA has every right to take radical action to solve. The time for &quot;quiet diplomacy&quot; is way, way over.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mugabe has created an internal problem for SA: 2.5 million plus Zimbabweans who have come here (historic migration is a drop in the ocean compared with the present numbers). It&#8217;s an SA problem, which SA has every right to take radical action to solve. The time for &#8220;quiet diplomacy&#8221; is way, way over.</p>
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