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: 2007-08-31 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Bull. This is just another excuse to keep Robert Mugabe in powe. Jan]
Cape Town – The South African government would not do anything beyond what the Southern African Development Community (SADC) had tasked it to do with regards to Zimbabwe’s crisis, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday.
Responding to a question in the National Assembly on the South African government’s role in assisting Zimbabweans, Mbeki said the task he was given by SADC was to bring together Zimbabwe’s political parties, civil organisations and other groups so that Zimbabweans could agree on the best way to deal with their situation.
“There are no separate measures that would be undertaken by the South African government outside that process.
“We are not going to be involved in any regime change in Zimbabwe – it would be fundamentally wrong,” he said.
| ‘There are no separate measures that would be undertaken’ |
Zimbabwe’s ruling party and the opposition, the movement for democratic change (MDC), were fully committed to the talks and both parties were confident that elections will take place under peaceful conditions.
“They are committed to ensuring that elections take place in the atmosphere SADC described,” he said.
Asked by Democratic MP Mark Lowe how hungry Zimbabweans, who were already fleeing their country in large numbers because of the economic meltdown, were expected to be part of a solution, Mbeki said the SADC was currently finding ways of assisting Zimbabwe to deal with its economic crisis.
He said an economic rescue plan for Zimbabwe was adopted by SADC head of states at a recent Lusaka summit, and that regional finance ministers were looking at how it could be implemented.
“We are responding to the issue of hunger,” he said, adding that sanctions had contributed to Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown.
| ‘We are responding to the issue of hunger’ |
Mugabe has blamed Western sanctions for his economic woes, and clamped down on an opposition he accuses of being Western stooges. But most observers say that it is Mugabe’s disastrous economic policies that are to blame for inflation of nearly 8 000 percent, unemployment of 80 percent and shortages of most basic products. – Sapa
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