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juw
you show me one article of merit - with an ounce of credibility in his favour -
and I'll be able to show you ten against.
2020hindsight, if you have different views, then so be it.
After all, you are justifying your stance by morally personifying Mugabe as a cartoon caricature and a character in a novel.
ok you are talking about Peter Nicholson.trashy propaganda cartoons ....
...........Bill Leak is The Australian's daily editorial cartoonist. As one of Australia's leading satirists and most respected portrait painters, Leak divides his time between ridiculing his subjects mercilessly in his cartoons or immortalising them in oils. He has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize on ten occasions and his portraits are included in the collections of the State Library of NSW, Parliament House, Canberra and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. He has won eight Walkley Awards, one of which was for Brown Nose Day in 2002, and nineteen Stanley Awards including eight Gold Stanleys for Artist of the Year.
Peter Nicholson makes a new animated political cartoon exclusively for The Australian every few days. The Australian is the first newspaper in the world to have an animated cartoon this close to the news. The animations do for the web what his famous Rubbery Figures puppets did for television, and feature the voices of Paul Jennings.
Nicholson's pocket cartoons appear on page one most days, and his large-scale cartoons are in Media and Inquirer. He has won four Walkley Awards, six Quill Awards, and the National Museum cartoon prize twice. .... His cartoons and sculptures are in the National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum and the National Gallery of Victoria.
juw that is complete nonsense if you don't mind me saying so.juw said:It is the effect of western colonial powers. The reason why Mugabe has been in power for decades is because the people know their history.
opposition supporters have been killed ...
national broadcaster ZBC has dropped all campaign advert and coverage for the Movement of Multiparty Democracy (MMD) ...
Zanu PF has vowed not to relinquish power ....
Raila Odinga (Kenyan PM) has been vocal asking African Nations to speak out the Zimbabwe situation
"Zimbabwe remains an eyesore on the African continent..."
- it is a big embarrassment that a leader can say that he is not willing to hand over power to an opponent..."
similar to the conclusions that the African Union arrived at in April...
elections 27 June re-run....must be free, must be fair...
Kenyan Govt is monitoring and is parrticularly concerned
harrassment of candidates , and the continued arrest and imprisonent of the oppostion does not auger well for the development of democracy in Africa.
But they agree it is unlikely to be free and fair
an increasingly violent crisis..
Robert Mugabe’s political strategy in Zimbabwe is very clear: to win the presidential runoff on June 27 2008 by any means necessary, and at any cost.
The brutality of the methods and tactics being employed has been extensively documented. Key elements include killings, voter intimidation, residential displacements, the elimination and harassment of polling agents and party campaigners, and the incarceration of political leaders.
gg, howdy - just incidentally - Why not duck over the border into Zimbabwe and see if the elections are fair or not -
a) ask the people would they personally like to dance on Mugabe's grave
b) what sort of dance would they do ,, etc
c) as Fred Dagg once said, "we don't know how propitious are our circumstances Frederick"
2020hindsight what trashy propaganda cartoons omit is that the problems in Africa are largely not the fault of Africans. It is the effect of western colonial powers. The reason why Mugabe has been in power for decades is because the people know their history. Don't be so quick to jump on the media bandwagon.
Here's the Kenyan opinion of the Zimbabwe situation (NTV) - since I suspect you won;t accept something said by a white man ...
Mugabe ally calls for end to 'intimidation' tactics
Posted Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:13pm AEST
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's closest African ally, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has urged the leader to end all intimidation and political violence in the run-up to next week's presidential election.
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In another development, a senior figure in the Opposition MDC, Arthur Mutambara, has called on Zimbabwe's neighbours and African organisations to ensure the poll is free and fair.
"It's incumbent upon SADC, South Africa and the AU to bring pressure on Mugabe and make it very clear that if Mugabe wins in a fraudulent election there'll be no support for that regime," he said. ....
- and how brave is Morgan Tsvangirai
It's definitely up to the African countries to supervise this ...
Significant participation by white countries would only be playing into Mugave's hands... "colonisers ,,, yada yada rhubarb rhubarb..."
at least he's been to jail for justiceI hate to rain on your parade 2020 but the word in SA is that Morgan Tsvangari is only 50% the bastard that Mugabe is.
Jesus he wept.
gg
LOL<sarcasm>So when do we invade to restore democracy?</sarcasm>
If it wasnt for the western support of corrupt countries so that our companies can "invest in" (ie, pillage) the country, a big portion of our favourite miner stocks will not exist.
The colonials are long gone, the locals are in charge...tribalism and corruption reigns
supreme, even in the more modern democracy's there still a basic level of corruption
that pervades almost every aspect of life and business.
In Ghana u have to pay (extra) just to get the phone connected after waiting 6
months....the locals in positions of power will attempt to extort money from
anyone with money, black or white.
LOLNo oil.
<no sarcasm>
in the future it will be the new china (as far as cheap labor goes)...once
Asia gets to the too expensive to produce there stage, there's only 1 place
left to go (exploit) and that's Africa.
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I love it when people are politically incorrect!!Africa won't ever be a new China or Asia. They have no work ethic. A lot of Africa's problem is the men do nothing and make the women do all the labour. Africans are not as clever as Asians either.
We need about 80% (not a scientific conclusion) of the human species wiped out for the planet to survive.
It will find a way.
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