'Development pornography' (3)

What an apt characterisation! I couldn't agree more. As comrade Mugabe has said, colonialism is a crime against humanity. Reparations are in order. African leaders have to realise that paying back the so-called debt to the multi-lateral institutions of the West, is a perpetuation of slavery and subjugation. Africa will not develop for as long as it is led by imperialist lackeys who are falling over each other to reach the HIPC completion point as was the case in my country Zambia.These governments are there to meet the conditionality set by their Western bosses. Not once have they met any expectation of the hapless masses.

I disagree with Patrick Bond and David Moore's conclusions on the Zimbabwe elections. It is condescending to merely allege that the urban poor and working class were cheated while the rural poor were intimidated. Where is the evidence to support these assertions? If Morgan the beloved weren't an ignoble chancer, why did he participate in the elections which he all along dubbed unfree and unfair? Comrade Mugabe is right to have reclaimed our peoples birth right. Their land. Savagely stolen by the ancestors of Morgan's current financiers. Aluta continua!