Famine and drought are just the tip of the iceberg, said Roy Bennett I would go as far as to predict another Niger situation here in Zimbabwe In Epworth, people are still sitting at the wrecked sites of their former homesteads Parents no longer have any income, and the children cannot go to school.At Hopley Farms, desperate victims of Murambatsvina are without adequate food or water
But It’s not just Harare, Bennett added It’s happening in Headlands Didymus Mutusa, the man who is filled with hatred against the people of Zimbabwe, recently moved against a refugee settlement The people were camped out in United Nations tents and were being supplied food through the International Organization of Migration
They were all translocated, moved much further away where theyve got no access to food and no way of getting back into town because they were deemed to be opposition supporters UN special envoy, Jan Egeland, an Under-secretary General in charge of the World Food Program, will scrutinize the desperate food and housing situation on a visit scheduled for early December If he could speak to the UN Envoy, what would Bennett tell him about the crisis There are three points that we must understand that are involved in the situation involved in the disaster in Zimbabwe here, Bennett said
One: this is a manmade disaster The government has created it It has nothing to do with drought It has nothing to do with anything other than bad governance and the total destruction of a viable farming sector here in Zimbabwe
While there is drought at the moment, you have dams full of water Eighty percent of the food produced here in Zimbabwe was produced from commercial farms through irrigation That irrigation is lying idle Those dams are full
So the fact that at the moment there is no food available is not a result of the drought These are the issues that are the problem and must be addressed So the Envoy who is coming in must understand these three factors: that the crisis is manmade; that Mugabe will never ever permit him to see anything; and the fact that any independent media has been done away with – so that there is no reporting out of Zimbabwe especially in the rural areas, which is at the heart of the situation – so the whole lot goes unnoticed and the Mugabe government puts on this front to say the crisis is due to sanctions, is due to a drought, and hides the issues of the true situation under the carpet Why not admit that the famine is a man-made disaster
According to Bennett, Mugabe cannot allow the western nations or the world or the region to see that he has totally failed with his so-called land redistribution programme So he will never show anybody what is happening on those farms or allow anybody to speak to those people who are starving out there Lack of any meaningful action by the African Union and ongoing support by Thabo Mbekis regime in South Africa have covered up Mugabes policy failures That continues to be the case and worse
There is interference by external governments in the internal situation in Zimbabwe, Bennett accused You have Mbeki and South Africa involved with Zanu (PF) They have believed, and supported by Britain, I must add, in a government of National Unity here in Zimbabwe and a reformed Zanu (PF) Whenever those ideas are put to the test or put the feelers out to the people, they have been rejected hugely
Nobody is interested in a government of National Unity and nobody will believe in a reformed Zanu (PF) So they have now infiltrated the opposition They have caused massive in-fighting within the opposition with one goal: that is, splitting the opposition, dividing the opposition, so that whichever faction of the opposition is left behind will then work with the reformed Zanu (PF) to form a government of National Unity And all the issues that Mugabe is accountable for for the Matabeleland massacres, the theft and murders and beatings – will then be swept under the table
You wont have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission or a Truth and Justice Commission You basically move on, in this wonderful government of National Unity and this reformed ruling party It takes the embarrassment away from the western world; it takes all the headaches away from Mbeki of how hes going to deal with a situation whereby theres complete change and now there has to be accountability for that misrule and misgovernance and all the human rights abuses that have taken place over the last twenty years According to Bennett, the purpose of the senate elections is to prepare the way for this government of National Unity, and to allow the governments of South Africa and the UK to wipe the egg off their faces
I honestly believe that is the purpose Britain and South Africa are the two key players in the Zimbabwe issue You must understand that Britain as the previous colonial power and South Africa as Zimbabwes largest trading partner and neighbour to Zimbabwe who both have had huge ties with Zimbabwe from the colonial days have been involved right at the outset and have had an influence on the issues that have taken place in Zimbabwe.Post published in:NewsRelatedMinistry Of Health Says Bikita Nurse Injured In Line Of Duty Received All EntitlementsThe Energy Crisis : Need to Re-look at the Energy MixLeave a ReplyCancel reply
Famine and drought are just the tip of the iceberg, said Roy Bennett I would go as far as to predict another Niger situation here in Zimbabwe
In Epworth, people are still sitting at the wrecked sites of their former homesteads Parents no longer have any income, and the children cannot go to school.At Hopley Farms, desperate victims of Murambatsvina are without adequate food or water But It’s not just Harare, Bennett added It’s happening in Headlands
Didymus Mutusa, the man who is filled with hatred against the people of Zimbabwe, recently moved against a refugee settlement The people were camped out in United Nations tents and were being supplied food through the International Organization of Migration They were all translocated, moved much further away where theyve got no access to food and no way of getting back into town because they were deemed to be opposition supporters UN special envoy, Jan Egeland, an Under-secretary General in charge of the World Food Program, will scrutinize the desperate food and housing situation on a visit scheduled for early December
If he could speak to the UN Envoy, what would Bennett tell him about the crisis There are three points that we must understand that are involved in the situation involved in the disaster in Zimbabwe here, Bennett said One: this is a manmade disaster The government has created it
It has nothing to do with drought It has nothing to do with anything other than bad governance and the total destruction of a viable farming sector here in Zimbabwe While there is drought at the moment, you have dams full of water Eighty percent of the food produced here in Zimbabwe was produced from commercial farms through irrigation
That irrigation is lying idle Those dams are full So the fact that at the moment there is no food available is not a result of the drought These are the issues that are the problem and must be addressed
So the Envoy who is coming in must understand these three factors: that the crisis is manmade; that Mugabe will never ever permit him to see anything; and the fact that any independent media has been done away with – so that there is no reporting out of Zimbabwe especially in the rural areas, which is at the heart of the situation – so the whole lot goes unnoticed and the Mugabe government puts on this front to say the crisis is due to sanctions, is due to a drought, and hides the issues of the true situation under the carpet Why not admit that the famine is a man-made disaster According to Bennett, Mugabe cannot allow the western nations or the world or the region to see that he has totally failed with his so-called land redistribution programme So he will never show anybody what is happening on those farms or allow anybody to speak to those people who are starving out there
Lack of any meaningful action by the African Union and ongoing support by Thabo Mbekis regime in South Africa have covered up Mugabes policy failures That continues to be the case and worse There is interference by external governments in the internal situation in Zimbabwe, Bennett accused You have Mbeki and South Africa involved with Zanu (PF)
They have believed, and supported by Britain, I must add, in a government of National Unity here in Zimbabwe and a reformed Zanu (PF) Whenever those ideas are put to the test or put the feelers out to the people, they have been rejected hugely Nobody is interested in a government of National Unity and nobody will believe in a reformed Zanu (PF) So they have now infiltrated the opposition
They have caused massive in-fighting within the opposition with one goal: that is, splitting the opposition, dividing the opposition, so that whichever faction of the opposition is left behind will then work with the reformed Zanu (PF) to form a government of National Unity And all the issues that Mugabe is accountable for for the Matabeleland massacres, the theft and murders and beatings – will then be swept under the table You wont have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission or a Truth and Justice Commission You basically move on, in this wonderful government of National Unity and this reformed ruling party
It takes the embarrassment away from the western world; it takes all the headaches away from Mbeki of how hes going to deal with a situation whereby theres complete change and now there has to be accountability for that misrule and misgovernance and all the human rights abuses that have taken place over the last twenty years According to Bennett, the purpose of the senate elections is to prepare the way for this government of National Unity, and to allow the governments of South Africa and the UK to wipe the egg off their faces I honestly believe that is the purpose Britain and South Africa are the two key players in the Zimbabwe issue
You must understand that Britain as the previous colonial power and South Africa as Zimbabwes largest trading partner and neighbour to Zimbabwe who both have had huge ties with Zimbabwe from the colonial days have been involved right at the outset and have had an influence on the issues that have taken place in Zimbabwe.Post published in:NewsRelatedMinistry Of Health Says Bikita Nurse Injured In Line Of Duty Received All EntitlementsThe Energy Crisis : Need to Re-look at the Energy MixLeave a ReplyCancel reply
Famine and drought are just the tip of the iceberg, said Roy Bennett I would go as far as to predict another Niger situation here in Zimbabwe In Epworth, people are still sitting at the wrecked sites of their former homesteads Parents no longer have any income, and the children cannot go to school.At Hopley Farms, desperate victims of Murambatsvina are without adequate food or water
But It’s not just Harare, Bennett added It’s happening in Headlands Didymus Mutusa, the man who is filled with hatred against the people of Zimbabwe, recently moved against a refugee settlement The people were camped out in United Nations tents and were being supplied food through the International Organization of Migration
They were all translocated, moved much further away where theyve got no access to food and no way of getting back into town because they were deemed to be opposition supporters UN special envoy, Jan Egeland, an Under-secretary General in charge of the World Food Program, will scrutinize the desperate food and housing situation on a visit scheduled for early December If he could speak to the UN Envoy, what would Bennett tell him about the crisis There are three points that we must understand that are involved in the situation involved in the disaster in Zimbabwe here, Bennett said
One: this is a manmade disaster The government has created it It has nothing to do with drought It has nothing to do with anything other than bad governance and the total destruction of a viable farming sector here in Zimbabwe
While there is drought at the moment, you have dams full of water Eighty percent of the food produced here in Zimbabwe was produced from commercial farms through irrigation That irrigation is lying idle Those dams are full
So the fact that at the moment there is no food available is not a result of the drought These are the issues that are the problem and must be addressed So the Envoy who is coming in must understand these three factors: that the crisis is manmade; that Mugabe will never ever permit him to see anything; and the fact that any independent media has been done away with – so that there is no reporting out of Zimbabwe especially in the rural areas, which is at the heart of the situation – so the whole lot goes unnoticed and the Mugabe government puts on this front to say the crisis is due to sanctions, is due to a drought, and hides the issues of the true situation under the carpet Why not admit that the famine is a man-made disaster
According to Bennett, Mugabe cannot allow the western nations or the world or the region to see that he has totally failed with his so-called land redistribution programme So he will never show anybody what is happening on those farms or allow anybody to speak to those people who are starving out there Lack of any meaningful action by the African Union and ongoing support by Thabo Mbekis regime in South Africa have covered up Mugabes policy failures That continues to be the case and worse
There is interference by external governments in the internal situation in Zimbabwe, Bennett accused You have Mbeki and South Africa involved with Zanu (PF) They have believed, and supported by Britain, I must add, in a government of National Unity here in Zimbabwe and a reformed Zanu (PF) Whenever those ideas are put to the test or put the feelers out to the people, they have been rejected hugely
Nobody is interested in a government of National Unity and nobody will believe in a reformed Zanu (PF) So they have now infiltrated the opposition They have caused massive in-fighting within the opposition with one goal: that is, splitting the opposition, dividing the opposition, so that whichever faction of the opposition is left behind will then work with the reformed Zanu (PF) to form a government of National Unity And all the issues that Mugabe is accountable for for the Matabeleland massacres, the theft and murders and beatings – will then be swept under the table
You wont have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission or a Truth and Justice Commission You basically move on, in this wonderful government of National Unity and this reformed ruling party It takes the embarrassment away from the western world; it takes all the headaches away from Mbeki of how hes going to deal with a situation whereby theres complete change and now there has to be accountability for that misrule and misgovernance and all the human rights abuses that have taken place over the last twenty years According to Bennett, the purpose of the senate elections is to prepare the way for this government of National Unity, and to allow the governments of South Africa and the UK to wipe the egg off their faces
I honestly believe that is the purpose Britain and South Africa are the two key players in the Zimbabwe issue You must understand that Britain as the previous colonial power and South Africa as Zimbabwes largest trading partner and neighbour to Zimbabwe who both have had huge ties with Zimbabwe from the colonial days have been involved right at the outset and have had an influence on the issues that have taken place in Zimbabwe.Post published in:NewsRelatedMinistry Of Health Says Bikita Nurse Injured In Line Of Duty Received All EntitlementsThe Energy Crisis : Need to Re-look at the Energy MixLeave a ReplyCancel reply
Famine and drought are just the tip of the iceberg, said Roy Bennett I would go as far as to predict another Niger situation here in Zimbabwe
In Epworth, people are still sitting at the wrecked sites of their former homesteads Parents no longer have any income, and the children cannot go to school Famine and drought are just the tip of the iceberg, said Roy Bennett I would go as far as to predict another Niger situation here in Zimbabwe
In Epworth, people are still sitting at the wrecked sites of their former homesteads Parents no longer have any income, and the children cannot go to school At Hopley Farms, desperate victims of Murambatsvina are without adequate food or water But It’s not just Harare, Bennett added
It’s happening in Headlands Didymus Mutusa, the man who is filled with hatred against the people of Zimbabwe, recently moved against a refugee settlement The people were camped out in United Nations tents and were being supplied food through the International Organization of Migration They were all translocated, moved much further away where theyve got no access to food and no way of getting back into town because they were deemed to be opposition supporters
UN special envoy, Jan Egeland, an Under-secretary General in charge of the World Food Program, will scrutinize the desperate food and housing situation on a visit scheduled for early December If he could speak to the UN Envoy, what would Bennett tell him about the crisis There are three points that we must understand that are involved in the situation involved in the disaster in Zimbabwe here, Bennett said One: this is a manmade disaster
The government has created it It has nothing to do with drought It has nothing to do with anything other than bad governance and the total destruction of a viable farming sector here in Zimbabwe While there is drought at the moment, you have dams full of water
Eighty percent of the food produced here in Zimbabwe was produced from commercial farms through irrigation That irrigation is lying idle Those dams are full So the fact that at the moment there is no food available is not a result of the drought
These are the issues that are the problem and must be addressed So the Envoy who is coming in must understand these three factors: that the crisis is manmade; that Mugabe will never ever permit him to see anything; and the fact that any independent media has been done away with – so that there is no reporting out of Zimbabwe especially in the rural areas, which is at the heart of the situation – so the whole lot goes unnoticed and the Mugabe government puts on this front to say the crisis is due to sanctions, is due to a drought, and hides the issues of the true situation under the carpet Why not admit that the famine is a man-made disaster According to Bennett, Mugabe cannot allow the western nations or the world or the region to see that he has totally failed with his so-called land redistribution programme
So he will never show anybody what is happening on those farms or allow anybody to speak to those people who are starving out there Lack of any meaningful action by the African Union and ongoing support by Thabo Mbekis regime in South Africa have covered up Mugabes policy failures That continues to be the case and worse There is interference by external governments in the internal situation in Zimbabwe, Bennett accused
You have Mbeki and South Africa involved with Zanu (PF) They have believed, and supported by Britain, I must add, in a government of National Unity here in Zimbabwe and a reformed Zanu (PF) Whenever those ideas are put to the test or put the feelers out to the people, they have been rejected hugely Nobody is interested in a government of National Unity and nobody will believe in a reformed Zanu (PF)
So they have now infiltrated the opposition They have caused massive in-fighting within the opposition with one goal: that is, splitting the opposition, dividing the opposition, so that whichever faction of the opposition is left behind will then work with the reformed Zanu (PF) to form a government of National Unity And all the issues that Mugabe is accountable for for the Matabeleland massacres, the theft and murders and beatings – will then be swept under the table You wont have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission or a Truth and Justice Commission
You basically move on, in this wonderful government of National Unity and this reformed ruling party It takes the embarrassment away from the western world; it takes all the headaches away from Mbeki of how hes going to deal with a situation whereby theres complete change and now there has to be accountability for that misrule and misgovernance and all the human rights abuses that have taken place over the last twenty years According to Bennett, the purpose of the senate elections is to prepare the way for this government of National Unity, and to allow the governments of South Africa and the UK to wipe the egg off their faces I honestly believe that is the purpose
Britain and South Africa are the two key players in the Zimbabwe issue You must understand that Britain as the previous colonial power and South Africa as Zimbabwes largest trading partner and neighbour to Zimbabwe who both have had huge ties with Zimbabwe from the colonial days have been involved right at the outset and have had an influence on the issues that have taken place in Zimbabwe.Post published in:NewsRelatedMinistry Of Health Says Bikita Nurse Injured In Line Of Duty Received All EntitlementsThe Energy Crisis : Need to Re-look at the Energy Mix
At Hopley Farms, desperate victims of Murambatsvina are without adequate food or water But It’s not just Harare, Bennett added It’s happening in Headlands
Didymus Mutusa, the man who is filled with hatred against the people of Zimbabwe, recently moved against a refugee settlement The people were camped out in United Nations tents and were being supplied food through the International Organization of Migration They were all translocated, moved much further away where theyve got no access to food and no way of getting back into town because they were deemed to be opposition supporters UN special envoy, Jan Egeland, an Under-secretary General in charge of the World Food Program, will scrutinize the desperate food and housing situation on a visit scheduled for early December
If he could speak to the UN Envoy, what would Bennett tell him about the crisis There are three points that we must understand that are involved in the situation involved in the disaster in Zimbabwe here, Bennett said One: this is a manmade disaster The government has created it
It has nothing to do with drought It has nothing to do with anything other than bad governance and the total destruction of a viable farming sector here in Zimbabwe While there is drought at the moment, you have dams full of water Eighty percent of the food produced here in Zimbabwe was produced from commercial farms through irrigation
That irrigation is lying idle Those dams are full So the fact that at the moment there is no food available is not a result of the drought These are the issues that are the problem and must be addressed
So the Envoy who is coming in must understand these three factors: that the crisis is manmade; that Mugabe will never ever permit him to see anything; and the fact that any independent media has been done away with – so that there is no reporting out of Zimbabwe especially in the rural areas, which is at the heart of the situation – so the whole lot goes unnoticed and the Mugabe government puts on this front to say the crisis is due to sanctions, is due to a drought, and hides the issues of the true situation under the carpet Why not admit that the famine is a man-made disaster According to Bennett, Mugabe cannot allow the western nations or the world or the region to see that he has totally failed with his so-called land redistribution programme So he will never show anybody what is happening on those farms or allow anybody to speak to those people who are starving out there
Lack of any meaningful action by the African Union and ongoing support by Thabo Mbekis regime in South Africa have covered up Mugabes policy failures That continues to be the case and worse There is interference by external governments in the internal situation in Zimbabwe, Bennett accused You have Mbeki and South Africa involved with Zanu (PF)
They have believed, and supported by Britain, I must add, in a government of National Unity here in Zimbabwe and a reformed Zanu (PF) Whenever those ideas are put to the test or put the feelers out to the people, they have been rejected hugely Nobody is interested in a government of National Unity and nobody will believe in a reformed Zanu (PF) So they have now infiltrated the opposition
They have caused massive in-fighting within the opposition with one goal: that is, splitting the opposition, dividing the opposition, so that whichever faction of the opposition is left behind will then work with the reformed Zanu (PF) to form a government of National Unity And all the issues that Mugabe is accountable for for the Matabeleland massacres, the theft and murders and beatings – will then be swept under the table You wont have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission or a Truth and Justice Commission You basically move on, in this wonderful government of National Unity and this reformed ruling party
It takes the embarrassment away from the western world; it takes all the headaches away from Mbeki of how hes going to deal with a situation whereby theres complete change and now there has to be accountability for that misrule and misgovernance and all the human rights abuses that have taken place over the last twenty years According to Bennett, the purpose of the senate elections is to prepare the way for this government of National Unity, and to allow the governments of South Africa and the UK to wipe the egg off their faces I honestly believe that is the purpose Britain and South Africa are the two key players in the Zimbabwe issue
You must understand that Britain as the previous colonial power and South Africa as Zimbabwes largest trading partner and neighbour to Zimbabwe who both have had huge ties with Zimbabwe from the colonial days have been involved right at the outset and have had an influence on the issues that have taken place in Zimbabwe.Post published in:News
At Hopley Farms, desperate victims of Murambatsvina are without adequate food or water But It’s not just Harare, Bennett added It’s happening in Headlands Didymus Mutusa, the man who is filled with hatred against the people of Zimbabwe, recently moved against a refugee settlement
The people were camped out in United Nations tents and were being supplied food through the International Organization of Migration They were all translocated, moved much further away where theyve got no access to food and no way of getting back into town because they were deemed to be opposition supporters UN special envoy, Jan Egeland, an Under-secretary General in charge of the World Food Program, will scrutinize the desperate food and housing situation on a visit scheduled for early December If he could speak to the UN Envoy, what would Bennett tell him about the crisis
There are three points that we must understand that are involved in the situation involved in the disaster in Zimbabwe here, Bennett said One: this is a manmade disaster The government has created it It has nothing to do with drought
It has nothing to do with anything other than bad governance and the total destruction of a viable farming sector here in Zimbabwe While there is drought at the moment, you have dams full of water Eighty percent of the food produced here in Zimbabwe was produced from commercial farms through irrigation That irrigation is lying idle
Those dams are full So the fact that at the moment there is no food available is not a result of the drought These are the issues that are the problem and must be addressed So the Envoy who is coming in must understand these three factors: that the crisis is manmade; that Mugabe will never ever permit him to see anything; and the fact that any independent media has been done away with – so that there is no reporting out of Zimbabwe especially in the rural areas, which is at the heart of the situation – so the whole lot goes unnoticed and the Mugabe government puts on this front to say the crisis is due to sanctions, is due to a drought, and hides the issues of the true situation under the carpet
Why not admit that the famine is a man-made disaster According to Bennett, Mugabe cannot allow the western nations or the world or the region to see that he has totally failed with his so-called land redistribution programme So he will never show anybody what is happening on those farms or allow anybody to speak to those people who are starving out there Lack of any meaningful action by the African Union and ongoing support by Thabo Mbekis regime in South Africa have covered up Mugabes policy failures
That continues to be the case and worse There is interference by external governments in the internal situation in Zimbabwe, Bennett accused You have Mbeki and South Africa involved with Zanu (PF) They have believed, and supported by Britain, I must add, in a government of National Unity here in Zimbabwe and a reformed Zanu (PF)
Whenever those ideas are put to the test or put the feelers out to the people, they have been rejected hugely Nobody is interested in a government of National Unity and nobody will believe in a reformed Zanu (PF) So they have now infiltrated the opposition They have caused massive in-fighting within the opposition with one goal: that is, splitting the opposition, dividing the opposition, so that whichever faction of the opposition is left behind will then work with the reformed Zanu (PF) to form a government of National Unity
And all the issues that Mugabe is accountable for for the Matabeleland massacres, the theft and murders and beatings – will then be swept under the table You wont have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission or a Truth and Justice Commission You basically move on, in this wonderful government of National Unity and this reformed ruling party It takes the embarrassment away from the western world; it takes all the headaches away from Mbeki of how hes going to deal with a situation whereby theres complete change and now there has to be accountability for that misrule and misgovernance and all the human rights abuses that have taken place over the last twenty years
According to Bennett, the purpose of the senate elections is to prepare the way for this government of National Unity, and to allow the governments of South Africa and the UK to wipe the egg off their faces I honestly believe that is the purpose Britain and South Africa are the two key players in the Zimbabwe issue You must understand that Britain as the previous colonial power and South Africa as Zimbabwes largest trading partner and neighbour to Zimbabwe who both have had huge ties with Zimbabwe from the colonial days have been involved right at the outset and have had an influence on the issues that have taken place in Zimbabwe
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