Posted by The government of Botswana will cut diplomatic ties with Zimbabwe within six months if the proposed powersharing deal with the MDC collapses,Metro has established.
Addressing Botswana’s Parliament Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation minister, Phandu Skelemani hinted on the possible development telling the Assembly that if the deal collapses in the next six months, his government will “go back to square one” by not recognising Mugabe as president nor his government.
“Consequent to this allegation, Botswana was shocked by the baseless and absurd charges that were levelled at Botswana by authorities in Zimbabwe at the extraordinary meeting of the Interstate Defence and Security Committee of the Organ Troika held in Maputo on November 5 2008.
“The allegations that the government of Botswana would wish to train foreign nationals on its territory to effect regime change is ridiculous and all who are aware of Botswana’s longstanding commitment to the principles of good neighbourliness, non-interference in the internal affairs of others, and peaceful resolution of disputes in our region and elsewhere would no doubt attest to this,” Skelemani said.
Meanwhile state media in Zimbabwe is reporting that a draft of the Constitutional Amendment Number 19 Bill has been completed and has been sent to the facilitator, former South African president Thabo Mbeki’s legal team.
“Draft Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 19 has been completed and sent to the mediator in South Africa after scrutiny by the parties concerned,” ZANU PF’s Sikhanyiso Ndlovu reportedly told church leaders on Monday.
However Ndlovu claimed that Mugabe has appoint a Cabinet first before the Bill is passed in Parliament.
“Constitutional Amendment Number 19 cannot be done right away without a Cabinet. The Legal and Constitutional Affairs Ministry is with the MDC-T and the minister must steer the Bill at all the stages. A Bill cannot go to Parliament if it is not approved by Cabinet,” Ndlovu said.
Baba muri right. Chinos akagocha dairy cows and turned back and said mukaka hakuchina because of sanctions… who are they kidding?
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60 hexillion fraud …hahahahahahahahah and the country is still standing-how is this possible? When the situation has turned a leaf , the west should come over and come up with a new economic concept based on the zimbabwe situation.we are talking hexillions and yet we are still walking.inflation is billions but we are not moving…this is amazing resiliance by the zimbabwe people.Look at the west , one tick in the system and the whole bloody system crumbles-credit crunch this and that. In zimbabwe people have paid for their houses in cash…not credit cards and bank loans…hexillion ..hahahahahahahah what madness!!!!
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Scarface. what you don’t understand is that people in the west are not hungry.There is no shortage of fuel.They do not queue for a loaf of bread or to draw their money from the bank.They are not sleeping on the streets.They do not have any shortage of medicine.All of their hospitals are still working 100 %.Everything in the west is still functioning 100 %. Can the same be said for Zimbabwe.?????????????
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DOES ANYONE IN MDC HAVE AT LEAST A ZJC? ANYONE AT ALL? MAROVHA..
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SOUTH AFRICA HAS SAID IT WILL ONLY PROVIDE THE 30 MILLION AID WHEN A GVT HAS BEEN FORMED…HAHAHAHA -NOW THOSE WHO LOVE SANCTIONS WILL START PRAISING SA FOR TAKING A TOUGH STANCE AGAINST ZIMBABWE. AKA ZANU PF GVT.WE WILL HEAR ALL SORTS LIKE THE NEW PRESIDENT IS A AFRICAN HERO..HAHAHAHA EVEN MUTAMBRA FLIP FLOPS THIS WAY AND THAT WAY.AS LONG AS HE IS ON THE MDC SIDE HE IS A ANGEL.THE MINUTE HE SAYS ANYTHING THAT SUPPORTS ZANU PF POLICY BE IT TRUE OR NOT, HE BECOMES EVIL -A DEVIL -SELL OUT .HE IS ONLY SUPPOSED TO TAKE A POSITION IN LINE WITH MDC POLICY OTHERWISE HE IS GIVEN ALL SORTS OF INSULTS…MAPENZI EVANHU..
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mr baba -not sleeping on the streets? how many businesses are closing daily-house reposessions? iwe ka iwe.one day i will get a camcorder and drive around the country and show you poverty in the west like you have never seen before…how many people in zim are losing houses on that scale..iceland crumbled-ukrain crumbled-pakistan crumbled-there are a few more countries crumbling as we speak..if it were not for the IMF bailing them out , they would all be ****ed.Imagine if the imf bailed us out on our very little debt and then allow us credit facilities—that is all that we need to perform..they can even keep their aid.
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Scarface. All countries in the world have small areas of poverty. The whole of Zimbabwe is in poverty.You don’t need to drive around Zimbabwe to see it because it is everywhere.Why would the IMF want to lend you more money when they know it will never be repaid.
The International Monetary Fund has refused to restore Zimbabwe’s voting rights within the financial agency.
The IMF board said Zimbabwe still owed a further $119m (£68.5m) to a poverty reduction and emergency scheme
Why dont you beggars pay your debts ?????????????????????
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Scarface you are exposing your lack of knowledge of issues maybe you only have ZJC, really you don’t need a camcorder in Zim to provide evidence of poverty as you would do in those countries you are mentioning the whole country is starving you are defending a hopeless case, give us our country back zanu idiots. We want to rebuild our country, you have no friends because you owe a lot outside this is a fact and no one is going to bail you out. You even mentioning what the South African gvt is saying about conditions of the R30M aid, we did not have to say it. Your party is doomed, we are not considering the RSA President as an African hero he is a coward he could not chase away mugabe from the SADC summit when he was asked to excuse the meeting to discuss the sticking points. Your mad bod needs psychiatric help.
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International envoys’ Zimbabwe visit condemned by Robert Mugabe
A trio of elder statesmen are set to fly in to inspect the situation in Zimbabwe this weekend despite, claims from President Mugabe that they are not welcome and are bent on “illegal regime change”.
Jimmy Carter, the former US President; Kofi Annan, the the former UN secretary-general; and Graca Machel, the wife of Nelson Mandela, are planning a two-day visit to assess the country’s humanitarian catastrophe and to mobilise international help. Zimbabwe is facing several disasters: famine, a cholera epidemic, moribund state and private institutions and inflation measured in the billions.
The trio — members of the Elders, a group of ten respected figures formed to tackle international crises — will be acting in defiance of the Government, which has today issued a warning that they should stay away. It said in an unattributed statement that the trio were “a clique… of personalities hostile to Zimbabwe, a partisan mission by a group of people with partisan interests”.
In a coded reference to Western intelligence agencies the statement added: “The Government would want to know whose mission they are representing and who they report to.”
Mr Annan issued a counter-statement today to say that he and his colleagues would “make a first-hand assessment of the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe, to meet those working on the ground, to better assess the extent of the crisis and how assistance can be improved”.
He also said that the trio had sought meetings with political leaders and would be pleased to hear their views, but added that they had “no intention” of being involved with the stalemated attempts to bring Mr Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, to set up a transitional power-sharing government. Diplomatic sources said that their requests for a meeting with Mr Mugabe had been met with silence. “My colleagues and I look forward to our visit,” Mr Annan concluded.
In the past unwanted visitors have simply been turned back at the airport; three years ago a group of top South African trade unionists were arrested and driven 600km (375 miles) back to the border.
The trio’s status may be giving the regime uncomfortable pause for thought, however, as it contemplates the effect on international opinion of kicking them out.
Further pressure was piled on Mr Mugabe today when South Africa said that it would not release nearly $30 million (£20 million)in agricultural aid to Zimbabwe until a new government had been formed there, as it prepares to host new power-sharing talks next week.
The Elders will find a country on the brink of complete collapse. Hundreds of children have starved to death in barely functioning hospitals; almost 300 people have died in a cholera epidemic; and 80 per cent of the population lives in poverty. The only state organisation that was working this week was the riot police who yesterday beat up doctors and nurses protesting at the shortage of drugs and linen for their hospitals.
“This will be a demonstration of how staggeringly mean-spirited, how small-minded and brutally selfish this regime is,” said a Western diplomat. “They really care about nothing except being in absolute control.”
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Scareface,you’re a lost soul,all i can do is pray for you…i know if you’re in Zimbabwe now,chances are you’ll either die of hunger or lack of proper medical treatment because of no medicines,doctors,nurses…you’re most probably HIV positive,you just dont know it yet until you start ****ting all over the place.
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Scarface is not in Zimbabwe. He is enjoying the good life in the west.
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Scarface ,why don’t you go to Zimdaily.com and read an article by MP Hon Jameson Timba,maybe it can give you a better insight of the MDC.
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CHRA made a micro survey of the frequency of water supplies in the suburbs of Harare. Below is a table (Figure 1) which shows some of Harare’s residential areas and their water supply patterns:
Figure 1
Area Water supply frequency
Mabvuku Tafara Most parts of the suburbs have had no tap water since 2006
Ruwa Receives water once (4 to 5 hours on a single day) per month. The water
is usually available during the late night hours.
Glen Lorne Most parts have been without water for the past 8 months, others receive
it for less than a day in a month.
Masasa Park Receives water once (4 to 5 hours ) per month
Greendale Without water for the past 4 months, some parts now receiving water for
less than 5 hours per week.
Budiriro Receiving visibly unclean water for less than 10 hours per week.
Dzivarasekwa Usually no supplies during weekends but the water is not clean and has dirt
particles that can be seen by the naked eye.
Hatfield Two to three days in every week
Chisipite Jan-April 2008 (6 hrs a month), May- Sept 2008 (No supplies), Oct to date
(an average of 4 hrs a month).
Kuwadzana Supplies are available for an average of three days per week
Glen View Visibly unclean water for less than 10 hours per week. Glen view went for
more than three consecutive weeks without supplies in October.
Glen Norah Two times a week (supplies are usually five hours long)
Warren Park Receives water for an average of 2 days per week; between 0100 and
0300hrs) This has been going on for the past Two months. The little water
that is available is visibly unclean.
Scarface. Where in the western world do you see this.??????????????????????????????
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zimdaily is a mdc puppet site…i read for fun but dont take what they say seriously.as a businessnman i look for advertising banners to get more contacts. The only real news is on the HERALD. Even mdc supporters love the herald because it is our local heritage newspaper.
Kofi ANAN failed when head of UN to do anything for Africa. Iraqi was invaded on false infornmation and he did nothing. Now he has realised his balls are shrinking and has decided its time to help zimbabwe…if he wants to help start with sanctions dude. Start with congo who have a much urgent need of help as we speak. Our story is that of sanctions -period.
Baba -these countries have b**** populations so you dont see the poverty-when 300 people lose their houses a day that is poverty .even in america those negros are stuggling -but they dont show you fools these images. why should they? When they show Africa and indeed other developing countries all they show you is poverty. You will never see the beautiful buildings -safaris-what have you.There has always been poverty in zimbabwe even during the good old days of no sanctions .But there was no need for anyone to go around filming to support their regime change agendas etc.You should watch programs that study poverty in your diaspora hoods to see how bad it is. They will not show you so unless you get out there yourself and find out you will never know.
Thats the pshycology they use on you when they bargain for your resources..you have lost the battle before its begun. As i write more job losses are being announced. gvt borrowing now up to 37 billion pounds as we speak. yes baba you will say they can afford it..america has trillions owed.The car industry is faltering with millions of jobs at stake. the pound has taken a pounding and i am sure you as a member of the diaspora community have felt it. Sending money home becomes a bit tight..1-145 vs the ud dollar…iwe. I have told you of these countries that have received funding from IMF..you still refuse to understand. Without this funding even zimbabwe would look like Dubai compared to them. They dont even have mazhanje to keep them going in hard times..at least we do because we are blessed like that. I remeber ndichifudza mombe and eating apples -mazhanje-hacha-you name it and it was all there.It was part of my lunch and i loved it. Now you turn around and say heeeee people are eating fruits this and that..we have been doing that since the beginning of time. Why should the west find that amazing? we Africans make use of our resources..period. If there is no sadza we turn to god’s other gifts for survival.WHAT do they have?
Anyway i dont have to tell you much.you know much of the truth anyway and it is up to you how you what you want to believe.My advise to you is dont let people come to your country to tell you about your country. You should know your own culture and lifestyle and the fact that we have always had poverty in africa even zimbabwe. people have always ate wild fruits and hunted wild animals.tichi teva mbeva. i have done it all guys so i know what i am talking about.we have always travelled miles and miles to fetch water-clean water and thats not new.
I tell you what – Gukurahundi happened in 1980-did you hear a word from Morgan or any of his western bosses complain then? No no no- because they only choose to show you what they want and when it benefits them. This gukurahundi benefits or fits into their regime change agenda so only now they have decided to talk about it.Where were they all those years? Did they not care about the ndebele people? What of morgan -where was he? What did he do about it then? zero…thats what i thought. But now every one has a masters degree on gukurahundi. even those born after it.Negros like you baba aill forever be slaves . I sometimes think you are white but the english is a bit dodgy for a whate person. But guys i dont mind valid criticism of the gvt based on facts.If you talk about corruption give us a few cases that you know like willowgate scandal.we even lost nyagumbo over that.yes it exists -all over africa and europe and america.so its not just the zim gvt that is corrupt.
Gossip news -lies -that is killing our people and our country. pasi nemanyepo.kofi Anan go back home you are not wanted.
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All these guys talking about zimbabwe walking all over Botswana are more delusional than i thought.Maybe all these rantings make you feel powerful and you actually believe it. Maybe because you fought liberation wars you automatically think that you are militarily superior to Botswana.Maybe because of a population of around 12 million you think that you are mightier than Botswana.
So all i can say my African Brothers/Sisters/Neighbours is that; keep on dreaming! yes Keep on dreaming!
But i can guarantee you this; we might not have fought for our independence,we might have a population of 1.8 million and we might generally choose to listen to you go ballistic on us and keep quite.BUT,and you better listen good, we are NEITHER Mugabe NOR his General’s playground and we will NEVER be.If Mugabe, his Generals and the like-minded let their insolence and ignorance overshadow their reasoning and think that they can come shooting willy nilly at Botswana, they are going to regret and curse the days they were ever born and perhaps the goons who are always proclaiming to the world[all over the internet] how “powerful and Militarily Superior” Zimbabwe is will come to learn and accept that having fought a liberation war is NOT an indication of Military strength in this world.
In the meantime since it makes you feel good,mighty and untouchable,you can keep on dreaming but one wrong move and we will bring you back to the harsh realities of this world, a lesson you will never forget in history and maybe, just maybe, you will come back from cloud number nine that you all seem to be riding on.
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fungai!!! indeed!!! he’s not following the advice his name entails. anyway they say if you keep repeating the same lie to yourself it ends up becoming the truth- and unfortunately there’s some of our oh so educated, literate brothers n sisters who have come to believe the lie of the so called economic sanctions. even govenor gono has found another scapegoat. chete that one’s a lunatic we can expect anything from him. have you ever seen the maniacal look on his face like when he was lambasting the banks in his recent address?
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Scarface you really should put up or shut up. You are certainly not acting as if you are educated. Please list the sanctions that are being imposed upon Zimbabwe. Do your research and list them.
As for the Western credit crunch, yes people are losing their jobs in certain sectors and it will not be an easy time financially for many families. But they will not starve, their schools and hospitals shall remain fully functional, and their leaders continue to need to be receptive to their populations wishes if they want to remain in positions of authority. So I wouldn’t say its quiite the same as the situation in Zimbabwe.
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SCARFACE: You are the greatest contributor of nonsense. Mbuya vanopfeka thong.
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