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Evil despot President Robert Mugabe, having wrecked Zimbabwe's economy, now turns his wrath on the victims of his folly. Thousands forced in live in the streets of Harare because the government destroyed their homes last year have been caught up in "anti-crime" sweeps and will be deported to the hinterlands.
President Robert Mugabe began a new onslaught on Zimbabwe's poor yesterday when his regime announced that more than 10,000 street children and vagrants had been "rounded up" in Harare.Police described their latest assault on the capital's poverty-stricken street dwellers, codenamed Operation Round Up, as a crime-fighting measure.
Last year they bulldozed thousands of "illegal structures" in the poorest townships, leaving 700,000 people without homes or livelihoods.
The new operation appears aimed at those cast on to the streets by the earlier demolitions.
Sycophants defend Mugabe's orders.
Assistant Commissioner Munyaradzi Musariri said they would be "relocated" to their "homes" in rural areas. "As police, we will not rest until there is sanity in the streets and the operation is continuing," he said.
As Mr Musariri knows full well, those who can't find homes in the rural areas where they're dumped will be left to fend for themselves. And I wouldn't worry too much about "sanity in the streets" when there's a madman running the whole country.
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Operation Round Up…
Grandpa Robert Mugabe rounds up 10,000 street kids and sends them to the “farm“:
President Robert Mugabe began a new onslaught on Zimbabwe’s poor yesterday when his regime announced that more than 10,000 street children and vagrants h…
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[...] Dr Kunonga was chosen Bishop of Harare in a 2001 election in which critics allege the outcome was manipulated by the secret police. He has firmly supported Mugabe’s urban depopulation program (charmingly named “Drive Out the Filth”) that has left over 375,000 homeless. As a reward for his support in the fixed 2002 election, Bp Kunonga was given a farm seized from a white farmer. From his pulpit, he pronounced Mugabe’s win “God’s will”. [...]
[...] Mugabe’s day of prayer like asking Satan to preach at Easter By StatGuy Robert Mugabe may be a destructive and ruthless megalomaniac, but he didn’t get to be dictator without political smarts. His manipulations have divided the political opposition, and now the churches as well. His temporal victory over the latter will be sealed by his latest propaganda coup: a national day of prayer set for Sunday, 25 June. Mugabe, whose policies have destroyed the economy of what was once one of the most economically successful in Africa, has split his country's non-Catholic churches, pitting pastor against pastor, vicar against vicar, priest against priest. [...]
[...] He said: "You do not understand the core problem. If you want to end poverty in Africa, you must treat the disease, not the symptoms. That disease is the shocking lack of accountability afforded toward the African people by those who rule them. The truth of Western aid is that for every pound, dollar and euro that finds its way to the needy, another is propping up corrupt governments such as Robert Mugabe's in Zimbabwe." [...]
[...] Two tyrants ally against tyranny By StatGuy Venezuelan dictator President Hugo Chavez and the last dictator in Europe, Belarussian president Alexander Lukashenko, have met together and proclaimed an alliance opposed to (can you guess?) dictatorship. Reuters refers to Mr Lukashenko as a "fellow maverick" of Mr Chavez. That's priceless. Kinda like calling Robert Mugabe a "fellow maverick" of Idi Amin. "The number of countries in the world which resist the forces of dictatorship is growing," said Lukashenko, standing alongside him [Chavez] at the military academy. [...]
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[...] One of his first projects after being appointed chief of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) early in 2005 was the infamous Operation Murambatsvina [Operation Drive Out the Filth], which sent soldiers to destroy the homes of over 700,000 people. Mutasa presented Murambatsvina as a regeneration and renewal scheme to "clean up" urban areas. But most people who lost their homes were opposition supporters, and nearly a year-and-a-half later virtually nothing has been done to provide new homes for the estimated 700,000 to a million people who watched their houses being bulldozed, sledgehammered and set ablaze. [...]
[...] Archbishop Pius Ncube: Mugabes most defiant opponent By StatGuy Pius Ncube, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, has engaged in a long and tiring struggle to help Zimbabwe's poor and suffering in the face of intimidation at home and flagging interest abroad. President Robert Mugabe’s most determined and outspoken critic, he continues to campaign for human rights despite official condemnation and death threats. It has been seven years since Mugabe triggered the decline of his country by ordering "war veterans" to invade white-owned farms after he lost a constitutional referendum. As Mugabe seized control of the judiciary and the press, rigged elections, demolished shanty towns – making 700,000 people destitute – and starved his political opponents, Archbishop Ncube came to prominence as the archetypal turbulent priest, Mugabe's most implacably defiant domestic opponent, vowing to continue to speak the truth even though his name was rumoured to be on a secret "death list". [...]
[...] I won’t go through Bp Mwamba’s “liberal voice”, The Anglican Church in Southern Africa, except to say that it doesn’t appear to me to contain any inflammatory misrepresentations like those tossed in under the conservative voice. (But perhaps liberals may take a different view.) Oh—and, whereas Robert Mugabe was quoted agreeing with the conservative stance, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was quoted in support of the liberal. Needless to say, Abp Tutu carries a better moral cachet than the villainous and sadistic Mugabe. [...]
[...] Can Zimbabwe’s economy get any worse? Just watch By StatGuy Zimbabwe’s economy nose-dived after President Robert Mugabe sanctioned brutal and illegal confiscation of white-owned farms for redistribution to cronies. The new proprietors proved abysmal failures as farmers, and Zimbabwe was quickly transformed from the bread basket of southern Africa into a basket case. The people were soon forced to rely on foreign charity for food. The economic free-fall into hyperinflation, mass unemployment, and widespread poverty is largely attributable to the land seizures. [...]
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[...] Price controls: A scheme to seize Zimbabwe’s private sector? By StatGuy Mugabe’s threat to nationalise "profiteering" firms supports the theory that the price reduction campaign is merely a means to take over the country’s private business sector in the same way that productive farms were seized and urban poor were driven out. THE current government drive against soaring prices is the same template of harassment, bullying and threats the State unleashed against commercial farmers in 2000 under the guise of land reform. [...]
[...] Church responds to Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown By StatGuy In the social and economic crisis brought on by government oppression, and now compounded by hyperinflation and price controls, even Zimbabweans with jobs are having difficulty buying food and other basic necessities. People are turning to the church for help, and the church is responding. Ray Motsi, pastor of Central Baptist Church in Bulawayo, says his church members really didn't have a choice in responding to the needs of their fellow countrymen: the needs walked through the door one Sunday. It happened two years ago, after Operation Clean up the Trash, when the government demolished homes that were allegedly built illegally. Those left without a home or a job were forced back to the villages with no way to support themselves. [...]
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