WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2007-05-30 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[This is complete and utter nonsense by Mrs Zuma – b*tch. There is no comparison between the sheer terror, beatings and torture Mugabe is engaging in. This is a most BLATANT lie. Any of the historical facts comparing Apartheid S.Africa and Zimbabwe will expose this outright lie of the highest order. Jan]
By Chiara Carter
However bad the situation in Zimbabwe and military-junta run Myanmar (Burma), those states were not the same as apartheid South Africa, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Tuesday.
The minister was responding to claims during the foreign affairs budget debate in the national assembly. It was claimed that the ANC government was hypocritical in not wanting the UN Security Council to look at human rights abuses in such troubled countries.
Dlamini-Zuma said the apartheid regime had closed doors on negotiation, occupied Namibia illegally and attacked neighbouring states. Apartheid had been declared a crime against humanity.
| ‘You can’t compare Zimbabwe and Myanmar’ |
“You can’t compare Zimbabwe and Myanmar, bad as it (the situation) may be,” Dlamini-Zuma said.
She told MPs that South Africa was determined to maintain an approach that would not push countries like Zimbabwe over the brink.
The success of attempts by President Thabo Mbeki to facilitate dialogue between the government of Robert Mugabe and the opposition would largely depend on the Zimbabweans themselves, she said.
During debate, several opposition MPs called for organs of civil society such as churches in Zimbabwe to be included in talks.
They also expressed concern that should the situation in Zimbabwe not improve, there was a danger of regional destabilisation.
They demanded that South Africa be more outspoken on human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.
Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder asked why the ministry and department had been silent about events in Zimbabwe last week when political protests were banned in Harare. On Saturday police raided the opposition Movement for Democratic Change’s head office and detained more than 200 people.
“Because the minister and the department have not yet reacted to the Zimbabwe ban and raid, must I conclude that they approve of it?” Mulder asked.
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa said the government should release interim reports about the progress of dialogue in Zimbabwe so the public could assess what was happening.
DA MP Douglas Gibson appealed to Dlamini-Zuma to get everybody – from ambassadors to border officials – on board to boost tourism in the interests of job creation and development.
Gibson said there had been some great foreign affairs policy successes in the past year, but some bad failures as well.
He said that the African Peer Review Mechanism had been a “public relations disaster” and should possibly rather have been led by Foreign Affairs than Public Service.
Responding to a suggestion from the ANC benches that the South African Jewish community, the diamond industry and other businesses with Israeli links should be put on the spot about the situation in Palestine, Gibson said some countries had almost intractable problems and local groups could not be blamed for the failure of the global community to resolve the problems of the Middle East.