William Gumede’s book: Thabo Mbeki and the battle for the soul of the ANC has some interesting comparisons of Mbeki and his predecessor Nelson Mandela. It also has an interesting quote from Mohandas Ghandi who Gumede says Mandela admired greatly.
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Finance Minister Tendai Biti has described his job as the worst in the world but at the same time he said Zimbabwe is misunderstood. He said a lot of investors did not know what they were dealing with because there is a lot of negativity that is being churned out on the internet and in newspapers.
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Another British peer has said that though he supports sanctions on Zimbabwe, Britain’s sanctions policy “has singularly been ineffective” and has been used as a weapon by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to bolster support against the West for the country’s poor economic performance.
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Vice President Joyce Mujuru, who was catapulted to power in 2004 in a move that nearly split the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front, is now the favourite to take over from President Robert Mugabe should he die in office, according to a British peer.
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Britain is to resume deporting failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers following a ruling by asylum judges that things have improved in Zimbabwe and there is no danger of facing harm.
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Here is the complete judgment of the Upper Tribunal ( Immigration and Asylum Chamber) on Zimbabweans who have failed to obtain asylum.
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President Robert Mugabe is making more inflammatory statements that really threaten the future safety and economic well-being of the people of Zimbabwe than the activists who were arrested for “watching films” about what was happening in Tunisia and Egypt, a British peer says.
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British peer and Methodist church minister Leslie John Griffiths says the British government should not pressurise exiled Zimbabweans living in that country to return home “prematurely” because the security situation in Zimbabwe has not improved greatly.
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