Robert Mugabe, Goodwill Ambassador for WHO

[Wobbegong]

Britain voting to leave the EU was a surprise
Trump winning the election was kind of believable

Mugabe becoming a goodwill ambassador is as shocking as Blair becoming the Middle East peace envoy

[anonymous-user]

Wobbegong said:

............... Blair becoming the Middle East peace envoy

Now you're just being silly......

I do wonder how much Mugabe bunged to whom for this one.

[gareth_r]

Perhaps the WHO were given the memo about that time he dramatically reduced hospital waiting lists in Matabeleland, but the page that mentioned the corresponding increase in the death rate didn't photocopy.

EDIT:
However... a quick Google reveals that his appontment has generated a ststorm of epic proportions.

Edited by gareth_r on Saturday 21st October 19:38

[E34-3.2]

Rovinghawk said:

Burning tyres around the neck aren't the healthiest thing around. Mandela was a terrorist.

Sadly his people were terrorised and treated like animals for hundred of years (and style today)... the poor chaps did not really know anything better than violence to express their pain.

[anonymous-user]

They are supposedly reconsidering his appointment
But damage is done and they look dumb as st

[anonymous-user]

techiedave said:

They are supposedly reconsidering his appointment
But damage is done and they look dumb as st

Exactly. Mind you they don't just LOOK dumb as st..........

[johnxjsc1985]

Anybody else's first response was WTF did I hear that correctly.
Love to be in the meeting when somebody said "what about Mugabe"

[James_B]

Does anyone have any insight into this sort of organisation, enough to work out what they may have been thinking?

From the outside it looks utterly idiotic.

[stitched]

E34-3.2 said:

Rovinghawk said:

Burning tyres around the neck aren't the healthiest thing around. Mandela was a terrorist.

Sadly his people were terrorised and treated like animals for hundred of years (and style today)... the poor chaps did not really know anything better than violence to express their pain.

You have no understanding of the history of Matabeleland, Rhodesia or Zimbabwe.
I doubt you have ever visited the continent.
But of course your ignorant opinion must have merit.
Educate yourself a tad before posting please.

[Engineer792]

Rovinghawk said:

jjohnson23 said:

Mr Mandela would have been ideal but sadly he is no longer with us.

Burning tyres around the neck aren't the healthiest thing around. Mandela was a terrorist.

Would you kindly enlighten us as to which acts of terrorism he was complicit in?

[Countdown]

Daltrey and Townshend are going to get a lot of stick for this, and quite rightly IMO.

Just what were they thinking?

[anonymous-user]

Rovinghawk said:

Burning tyres around the neck aren't the healthiest thing around. Mandela was a terrorist.

Nice.

[anonymous-user]

Countdown said:

Daltrey and Townshend are going to get a lot of stick for this, and quite rightly IMO.

Just what were they thinking?

Hopefully they will learn from it. And they Won't Get Fooled Again

[Rovinghawk]

Engineer792 said:

Rovinghawk said:

jjohnson23 said:

Mr Mandela would have been ideal but sadly he is no longer with us.

Mandela was a terrorist.

Would you kindly enlighten us as to which acts of terrorism he was complicit in?

At his trial, he pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilising terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station. Good enough?

[james_tigerwoods]

Back on topic.....

I saw this and presumed it to be a joke - how that man can be an envoy for anything is beyond me.

I suspect this was a way for him to be able to legitimately travel under the protection of the UN.....

[Jonesy23]

They seem to be changing their minds on this. Maybe.

Root cause seems to have been the man in charge at WHO being a former Ethiopian health minister and bringing the usual local politics to his new job.

[E34-3.2]

stitched said:

You have no understanding of the history of Matabeleland, Rhodesia or Zimbabwe.
I doubt you have ever visited the continent.
But of course your ignorant opinion must have merit.
Educate yourself a tad before posting please.

Please educate me...

[Tampon]

stitched said:

E34-3.2 said:

Rovinghawk said:

Burning tyres around the neck aren't the healthiest thing around. Mandela was a terrorist.

Sadly his people were terrorised and treated like animals for hundred of years (and style today)... the poor chaps did not really know anything better than violence to express their pain.

You have no understanding of the history of Matabeleland, Rhodesia or Zimbabwe.
I doubt you have ever visited the continent.
But of course your ignorant opinion must have merit.
Educate yourself a tad before posting please.

My father is South African, had many black staff as a child, half my family live in the African continent, I regularly holiday in Margate down from East London on the coast with my grandparents. I have worked for Afrikids in North Ghana after traveling there through the Sahara.

I am a qualified History teacher and taught A level history in subjects such as Mao to Mandella History of non western leaders. I specialised my degree in modern history and colonial British history.

I am very interested in the education you are about to unleash.

[Djtemeka]

Tampon said:

stitched said:

E34-3.2 said:

Rovinghawk said:

Burning tyres around the neck aren't the healthiest thing around. Mandela was a terrorist.

Sadly his people were terrorised and treated like animals for hundred of years (and style today)... the poor chaps did not really know anything better than violence to express their pain.

You have no understanding of the history of Matabeleland, Rhodesia or Zimbabwe.
I doubt you have ever visited the continent.
But of course your ignorant opinion must have merit.
Educate yourself a tad before posting please.

My father is South African, had many black staff as a child, half my family live in the African continent, I regularly holiday in Margate down from East London on the coast with my grandparents. I have worked for Afrikids in North Ghana after traveling there through the Sahara.

I am a qualified History teacher and taught A level history in subjects such as Mao to Mandella History of non western leaders. I specialised my degree in modern history and colonial British history.

I am very interested in the education you are about to unleash.

Burned!

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I feel sorry for Mugabe. OK, so under his rule, the average life expectancy in Zimbabwe has halved, from 66 years to 33, but he's 93, so he's doing his bit to keep the average up. It's others that are letting the side down.