Comments on: To Boo or Not to Boo? Why Zimbabwean exiles in UK booed and heckled Tsvangirai? http://www.townshipvibes.com/to-boo-or-not-to-boo-why-zimbabwean-exiles-in-uk-booed-and-heckled-tsvangirai/ Household products bargains and clearance sales Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:01:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rob http://www.townshipvibes.com/to-boo-or-not-to-boo-why-zimbabwean-exiles-in-uk-booed-and-heckled-tsvangirai/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Rob Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:04:37 +0000 http://www.townshipvibes.com/?p=668#comment-336 Life under Mugabe has certainly had its ups and downs, but I ask the question is the world ready for a Zimbabwe post Mugabe. More over is Zimbabwe really prepared for a world post Mugabe.<br />There are so many things to consider and questions that remain unanswered that maybe we should really begin to seek out truths for some of the harder questions about how we will prepare ourselves to rebuild a shattered nation and who's going to help us do it?<br /><br />Read more of my thoughts here:<br />http://wp.me/pyq3l-3Q Life under Mugabe has certainly had its ups and downs, but I ask the question is the world ready for a Zimbabwe post Mugabe. More over is Zimbabwe really prepared for a world post Mugabe.
There are so many things to consider and questions that remain unanswered that maybe we should really begin to seek out truths for some of the harder questions about how we will prepare ourselves to rebuild a shattered nation and who's going to help us do it?

Read more of my thoughts here:
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]]> By: Anonymous http://www.townshipvibes.com/to-boo-or-not-to-boo-why-zimbabwean-exiles-in-uk-booed-and-heckled-tsvangirai/comment-page-1/#comment-305 Anonymous Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:30:42 +0000 http://www.townshipvibes.com/?p=668#comment-305 I fully understand the need for rebuilding in Zimbabwe, but does Mr Tsvangirai not understand that the main reasons people have left Zimbabwe still exist in the country today:<br />1)Mugabe. He is still in charge and has not/will not change. <br />2)The economy... Who is going to sacrifice returning to unemployment, poverty, disease? There is little hope for short term economic recovery - especially while Zanu PF are still in control. No prudent investor, especially in these times of recession, is going to risk investing in a dangerous unstable enviroment<br />3)Politics.Like myself, many Zimbabweans do not care who is in power, as long as it does not affect your ability to live in peace, security and are not at risk at being used as a pawn in a political power struggle.<br />The white community in particular and opposition supporters in general feel they have been and can be targetted at any opportunity by the state apparatus as a means to achieve political gain. There is no evidence this has significantly changed or will change.<br />4) Those of us fortunate enough to have the abbility to visit back 'home' see the rapid deterioration of a once thriving economy and the resultant poverty. The daily struggles to survive! Yes we work harder here and the lifestyle is far removed from what we are used to, but we have become accustomed to freedom, rights and privelages Zimbabwe could not offer!<br /><br />So, yes Mr Tsvangirai, you may have the wider prosperity of the nation at heart, but until each individual believes within themselves that there is not only security, change and hope of an improved life, there will be very few volontiering to return.The risks at this time are too great. I fully understand the need for rebuilding in Zimbabwe, but does Mr Tsvangirai not understand that the main reasons people have left Zimbabwe still exist in the country today:
1)Mugabe. He is still in charge and has not/will not change.
2)The economy… Who is going to sacrifice returning to unemployment, poverty, disease? There is little hope for short term economic recovery – especially while Zanu PF are still in control. No prudent investor, especially in these times of recession, is going to risk investing in a dangerous unstable enviroment
3)Politics.Like myself, many Zimbabweans do not care who is in power, as long as it does not affect your ability to live in peace, security and are not at risk at being used as a pawn in a political power struggle.
The white community in particular and opposition supporters in general feel they have been and can be targetted at any opportunity by the state apparatus as a means to achieve political gain. There is no evidence this has significantly changed or will change.
4) Those of us fortunate enough to have the abbility to visit back 'home' see the rapid deterioration of a once thriving economy and the resultant poverty. The daily struggles to survive! Yes we work harder here and the lifestyle is far removed from what we are used to, but we have become accustomed to freedom, rights and privelages Zimbabwe could not offer!

So, yes Mr Tsvangirai, you may have the wider prosperity of the nation at heart, but until each individual believes within themselves that there is not only security, change and hope of an improved life, there will be very few volontiering to return.The risks at this time are too great.

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