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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 02:48 PM
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'Why I support Mugabe'
"The whites in Zimbabwe, the whites of Rhodesian origin, have created their own problems. They had the chance, for instance, on the question of the land to support the referendum for a new constitution but they worked together with the British government, which gave them an immense amount of money to try and destabilise the country over the land issue.

"Unfortunately, we lost that referendum by 10 000 votes nationally. As a result, our war veterans quite correctly went directly on to the land because this could not hold off any longer. Had the white population supported the government and the new constitution, the land would have been taken through negotiations, not by intervention of war veterans, not by militant actions," he says.

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He says contrary to the media reports, only nine white farmers were killed in Zimbabwe, compared to hundreds in South Africa.

"If you study internationally the land question, you will find that our land reform was almost non-violent by world standards; our country is far less violent than South Africa."

IOL
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McKenzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 02:55 PM
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1. that site tried to set cookies 34 times
I use Opera and it's configured to show what the cookies look like. This isn't a comment on the article (which looks interesting btw), just the unbelievably aggressive behaviour of the website, or possibly whatever it links to on the server.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 02:57 PM
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2. Yeah, it's noisy. Mozilla helps. You can tell it where to allow cookies.nt
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dems4israel Donating Member (49 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 08:09 PM
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3. Mugabe the maniac
Mugabe is a corupt despot he swindles money from the poor and he is horribly homophobic many people are moving to Zambia because its safer and more economically secure. Mugabe took one of the richest nations in Africa and turned it into to one of the poorest and did I mention hes bed fellows with COL Qadaffi
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 09:03 PM
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4. So, I take it you don't like him?
What did you think of the article?
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