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29-5-03

Thabo Mbeki tells us not to be mean to Mugabe

In Africa, the scum always rises to the top
What you lookin' at, white boy?

In today's Guardian, the loony president of South Africa says Zimbabwe's problems are to be blamed on "colonialism".

In the heated atmosphere that surrounds the issue of Zimbabwe, the tendency to pose as high priests at the inquisition, hungry for the blood of the accused, has taken root - as though to demonise and punish is the way to solve the most difficult problems. In this situation, as in war, the truth soon becomes a casualty.

From its very beginning as an independent country, Zimbabwe understood that it had to address the domination of the socio-economic sphere by the white minority - a legacy of colonialism.

President Mugabe, is - apparently - not to blame for any of the current woes. Mbeki actually fawns over the Zimbabwe prez's great achievements!

the government ploughed considerable resources into education, with dramatic success. Significant state expenditure went into health too, resulting in an increase in life expectancy from 55 to 59 years.

And he gives us this stunner:

But, contrary to what some now claim, the economic crisis currently affecting Zimbabwe did not originate from the desperate actions of a reckless political leadership, or from corruption. It arose from a genuine concern to meet the needs of the black poor, without taking into account the harsh economic reality that we must pay for what we consume.

Right, it's all just a bunch of rounding errors resulting from delivering the poor black folks from the clutches of evil whitey's legacy.

Curiously though, Mbeki seems unconcerned by the "black poor" Mugabe is starving to death, or having tortured by the police, all for living in areas friendly to Mugabe's political opponents. (This line of reasoning is popular in the west with lefty psychos who apologise for Castro's bouts of represion & murder)

Nor does Mbeki seem to think any economic woes are caused by the mass corruption and nepotism, the 'reclaiming' of productive farms by armed ZANU-PF thugs, or pretty much any of Mugabe's current policies designed to cripple economic activity.

Hey, but you go on dreaming, reality-denial boy, while Africa sinks on your watch. But hey, better dead than white, eh Mbeki?
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The new EU logo

Great work by The Yobbo over at Samizdata.
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Hot buttered freaks

I see James Russell is still a magnet for all the nut-jobs out there.
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Bomb the Welsh and take their oil

Funny post by Ken Parish.

By the way Ken, your blogger groupings are a little odd: me and the libertarians are right-ish, but Scott and Gaz are centre-ish?
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Non-existent anti-muslim hate crimes

Why aren't I surprised by this?
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Mwahahaha

Islamist freakazoid Sultaana Freeman - the idiot who demanded to have her driver's licence photo showing her hidden by her burqa - is a child-abuser. Of course, it is we non-muslims who are the corrupt ones...

(Thanks to Misha for the link)
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