Mugabe on his way out?

[Puggit]

Cancer apparently:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileak...

[Elroy Blue]

Great comment under the article.

"it needs speeding up by someone jumping up and down on him. "

(Well, it made me chuckle )

[EDLT]

He'll just get replaced by a younger , after they've had some time to kill a bunch of people for no reason, of course.

[Pints]

Dying of cancer at 87. So he's just dying then.

I'd have been thrilled to hear this 20-odd years ago, but now it's too little, too late.

[Jasandjules]

He should have been assasinated a long time ago.

[Pints]

Jasandjules said:

He should have been assasinated a long time ago.

Zimbabwe has no oil, so there was no point in the international community getting involved.

Cynical? Moi?

[Ozzie Osmond]

Africa is a disgrace - and Mugabe is the leader of the pack.

[Mikeyboy]

Ozzie Osmond said:

Africa is a disgrace - and Mugabe is the leader of the pack.

I'd argue that the new "democratic" South Africa is the real disgrace.

[Jasandjules]

Pints said:

Zimbabwe has no oil, so there was no point in the international community getting involved.

Cynical? Moi?

It's something I've said to friends many times over the years. But then, I'm a cynical b****rd as well.....

[Pints]

Mikeyboy said:

I'd argue that the new "democratic" South Africa is the real disgrace.

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[Chris Type R]

Soon to be replaced by Julius Malema in South Africa ?

[BertieWooster]

Chris Type R said:

Soon to be replaced by Julius Malema in South Africa ?

That is a scary thought and one that I hope never turns into reality. That guy is a complete nutjob.

Bertie W

[rah1888]

This isn't new news though. Heartening though it is to be reminded.

The Times in 2008 said:

Robert Mugabe flew to the Far East last week for the kind of medical treatment no longer available in his run-down hospitals in Zimbabwe, leaving loyalists in the ruling party to wonder who was really in charge with just a month to go before a run-off in the country’s presidential election.

Sources close to the government said the 84-year-old president travelled to Singapore on Wednesday to undergo tests for prostate cancer.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa...

[madala]

....may that evil b'stard have a long and very painful death....a very, very painful death....mind you I would have loved to pull the trigger on him many years ago.

[Pints]

BertieWooster said:

Chris Type R said:

Soon to be replaced by Julius Malema in South Africa ?

That is a scary thought and one that I hope never turns into reality. That guy is a complete nutjob.

Bertie W

Things are as bad as they are in Zimbabwe, yet the international community effectively turn a blind eye. If things got just as bad in SA (rapidly approaching that point already), what makes anybody think things wouldn't turn out just as badly, if not worse.

[Rude-boy]

Pints said:

BertieWooster said:

Chris Type R said:

Soon to be replaced by Julius Malema in South Africa ?

That is a scary thought and one that I hope never turns into reality. That guy is a complete nutjob.

Bertie W

Things are as bad as they are in Zimbabwe, yet the international community effectively turn a blind eye. If things got just as bad in SA (rapidly approaching that point already), what makes anybody think things wouldn't turn out just as badly, if not worse.

They turn a blind eye because if they don't people will start to ask questions like "So how come there were so few of these problems in SA 25 years ago" At which point they will st themseleves.

[Jimbeaux]

Rude-boy said:

Pints said:

BertieWooster said:

Chris Type R said:

Soon to be replaced by Julius Malema in South Africa ?

That is a scary thought and one that I hope never turns into reality. That guy is a complete nutjob.

Bertie W

Things are as bad as they are in Zimbabwe, yet the international community effectively turn a blind eye. If things got just as bad in SA (rapidly approaching that point already), what makes anybody think things wouldn't turn out just as badly, if not worse.

They turn a blind eye because if they don't people will start to ask questions like "So how come there were so few of these problems in SA 25 years ago" At which point they will st themseleves.

This!

[dandarez]

I seem to remember a conference that went on here in the UK for some months.

Culminated in something called the Lancaster House Agreement.

Woolly headed politicians like Tory Lord Carrington (left in pic) and bright things from the Foreign Office truly believed that one Robert Mugabe would make an excellent new 'democratic' leader.

Carrington (and not forgetting the former Labour Foreign Secretary, David Owen, another bright politician!) removed Rhodesia's Prime Minister, Ian Smith, who previously led the white-minority regime.

All worked out spiffingly!
Who is that woman on the right?



Wonder which new democratic leader will be installed in Libya?

[Elroy Blue]

South Africa is already on its last legs. They are about to seize foreign owned businesses and the seizure of white owned farms is getting very near the top of the agenda. Does this sound familiar?

[Jimbeaux]

Elroy Blue said:

South Africa is already on its last legs. They are about to seize foreign owned businesses and the seizure of white owned farms is getting very near the top of the agenda. Does this sound familiar?

Those white devils, that'll show 'em!