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: 2007-07-31 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Yes, sure. I believe you. Sure… Actually: RUBBISH! He’s been sitting here for the last 7 years letting Mugabe cheat at one election after another and he did nothing. In my view, this is nothing more than deception from President Mbeki. Zimbabweans are being fooled again and again and again. President Mbeki is close buddies with Robert Mugabe – for now and FOREVER! Zimbabwe is FINISHED. There never was democracy throughtout Mugabe’s rule. That was a smoke-screen. And there never will be. And Mbeki knows this and supports this. Jan]
By Paul Simao
Pretoria – South African President Thabo Mbeki warned on Sunday that elections in neighbouring Zimbabwe next year must be “free and fair” and produce a government legitimate in the eyes of the people of the devastated nation.
“It is important that when those elections take place, the results should not be contested… you must indeeed have elections in Zimbabwe that are free and fair,” Mbeki said.
“It (Zimbabwe) would have to be led by a government whose legitimacy is not contested,” he told reporters in a briefing to discuss the outcome of a mid-year meeting of his cabinet and other senior government officials.
| The South African leader is brokering talks between the two sides |
Mbeki added he was confident President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would reach an agreement paving the way for clean general elections in 2008.
The South African leader is brokering talks between the two sides under a mandate given him in March by the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
The initiative came after Mugabe’s security forces beat and arrested dozens of MDC activists, prompting international protests and renewed calls for the 83-year-old Zimbabwean ruler to introduce democratic reforms or step down.
Mugabe, in power since independence from Britain in 1980, has vowed to run for another five-year term next year despite widespread accusations that his government has abused human rights and destroyed the country’s once prosperous economy.
Zimbabweans are struggling with soaring poverty, inflation of about 5 000 percent and chronic shortages of food, fuel and foreign exchange amid an eight-year depression. Thousands every day cross illegally into South Africa to look for food and work.
| The situation has worsened in the past month |
Mugabe’s government blames the problems on sabotage by Britain and other Western nations.
The situation has worsened in the past month since Zimbabwe’s government began enforcing a radical price rollback scheme intended to stem soaring inflation.
The measures have led stores to stop stocking milk, bread and other basic items, pushing the economy toward collapse.
While conceding that Zimbabwe’s problems were affecting South Africa, Mbeki did not say whether he or his government’s mediators had increased pressure on Mugabe to reach a political agreement with the opposition.
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