You can’t be living in SA! You would know that the most outraged are the blacks about what is happening to their fellow blacks.

To us, Africans who do not deny our land and blood, Mugabe’s dignity remains in tact. If this is such an evil man…and evil men we have seen in our live, why do Zimbabweans keep voting for him, ohh I know what you say to that he rigged the elections, now really. That country is Zimbabwe and belongs to Zimbabweans,not Europe and America…and if Mbeki told bush to butt out out of Zim , I believe he left it too late. you go on about how, if he did, Mbeki should not have done that , you are so used to taking crap from these superiorist pigs from US and Russia, one would think Mbeki insulted God looking at the reaction. That is what is engrained in your minds, blacks can’t thnk.. the whites must do that for us…pleasse

get the hell out of here with this hero worship garbage ..

is Zimbabwe a world class 1st world country …?

uuuh no..!

I rest my case …I think thoughts of his impending trip to hell when he crosses over should be encouraged and openly discussed

i feel that Zimbambwean living in South Africa have turned their backs on their own country and most i’ve met are ungrateful unpatriotic lot, but are quick to put the blame on our South african government for not helping.I think South Africans are ready to help, but How can we help, if Zimbabweans do not want to help themselves. Go HOme and Serve your Country!!!!!!

As for him dying…Well i wish otherwise, i wish he’d live and see the fruit of his investments return Home and being Patriotic and serving their Country

Lets recap.

You said: Mugabe is a Hero (april 9th, 12:48)

I say : To you maybe, but to most he is a Villan.
(April 10th, 13:47)

You Say: Mugabe deserves another chance, it is not his fault but the baboon British and Americans, & Tsvangarai cant be in charge because he was never a freedom fighter

I say : (A lengthy reasoned argument about why your comments don’t make sense) April 10th 14:25

You say: I need to see a psychologist, and that Mugabe has done well and that it is the Baboons from Britain that disturb him (April 11, 20:14)

(This really isn’t the sort of reasoned argument i would expect from a BA student at university, but rather a 9 or 10 year old. You offer no rebuttal of my points, no supporting argument for yours, and offer insults and refer to the British (of whom by the way I am one) as Baboons). If i called you a Baboon it would be racist would it not?

I Say: Do you honestly think?

You say : Yes I am honest (which doesn’t answer my question, which in any case was an attempt to get you to justify your arguments, rather than just to proffer insults.)

I say: (I explain what i meant in case you don’t understand, suggest that your debating style is not what i would expect from a BA student, ask a few questions, and probably, to be fair, offer a few insults, which you probably deserve, but maybe TL isn’t the place for them)

You say: (what exactly did you say? It didn’t make any sense in English, maybe you can post it in your own language and someone else can translate?)

Can you answer me:

1. Have you ever been to Zimbabwe?
2. Why you think Mugabe is a hero?
3. Why you think he should be given another chance?

If you want to post on a column such as this you are expected to offer at least some substantiation for your point of view?

Indeed.

I did see the programme, i also spent 3 weeks in Zim last year. have you read Ian Smith’s book. It should be compulsory reading for anyone who wants to understand how Africa got in this mess.

As usual, the idiot reporter who made the first film couldn’t work out that it was idiots like himself who were fundamental in bringing Mugabe to power, and those that he had been so quick to judge had been right all along.

Of all the quotes he could have used for Smith he used a sound bite, out of context to paint the man as a racist and an idiot, he was, IMHO, neither.

I you watched Carte Blanche on MNET sunday night
you will understand why people like vonani Chauke react like they do.

The commies were masters in misinformation and
found eager students in Africa.

Your English isn’t that great (but i am sure it is not your first language so there is no shame in that). When i say do you honestly?, i was asking the question do you think? not are you honest? I ask the question because your comments don’t actually show much thought at all.

Having visited your personal website i have some idea of the problem.

You are a snotty nosed 20 year old that has grown up in a country that has never know Aparthied in your lifetime (you were 6 in 94). You have been afforded every advantage because you are black and now are studying for a BA. You clearly didn’t get on the course a result of intelligent comment, so as as a tax payer i feel somewhat defrauded that my money can’t produce anything better than you. It does not bode well for our ‘skills shortage’ and i wouldn’t let you within 100m of any business i own.

You have no idea what it must be like to live in Zimbabwe and have almost certainly never been there, but because of you political affiliations, and that fact that you think Mugabe has got one over on us white folk, you would like him to stay a little longer. You off course have food, housing, and education, so cant relate to what the Zimbabwean people are actually going through.

As part of your studies, maybe you should be made to go and live there for 3 months, then we can talk again.