What's Your Views On This Evil Person

[TWR]

Mugabe?

[Old_Geezer]

My view is that his removal is about 3 decades late.
(Not that I have much confidence that a good replacement will be installed.)

[emmie]

the sooner he is dead and buried the better, he seems to have had a long shelf life, time he was put out to pasture. he has done what all dictators do and kept the loot for him and his family, corruption running out of his ears and it won't be a sad thing if he was gone sooner than later. i feel sorry for the people of the country, because they may just get another like him.

[Old_Geezer]

PS. Bit of a leading question isn't it ?

[jackthehat]

He's an evil person.

[EDDIE51]

My view of him is not printable!

[ToraToraTora]

E ba Gum!

[ToraToraTora]

they should have stayed under British Control, Rhodesia was 1000% better than it is now.

[EDDIE51]

I lived for 3 years in Northern Rhodesia , Zambia.
I lost count of the number of Zambians who told me how much better it was when the British looked after them.

[mikey4444]

If its Mugabe, then this is at least 20 years too late.

[ToraToraTora]

a common theme all over the Empire eddie

[ichkeria]

The man Zanu-PF want to replace him, the commentators' nightmare
Emmerson Mnangagwa, is no angel either.
What are the chances of a decent politician or politicians turning Zimbabwe into the country it should be? Not great at the moment I'd say.
Most questions on News AB are leading I'm afraid :-)

[New Judge]

There's a very strange thing about colonialism that I'v never understood.

Before areas in Africa and Asia were colonised by the British and others they were generally degenerate cesspits. During their colonisation they were somewhat knocked into shape with decent roads, railways and legal systems put in place. When the occupiers were finally ejected they seemed (in the main but with one or two exceptions) to revert to degenerate cesspits. Curious.

[ichkeria]

Kaunda and Mugabe are almost exactly the same age ...
The former, whatver you may think of him, did at least retire gracefully and enable democratic institutions.

[Zacs-Master]

Agree with Ich. Mugabe was evil. His replacement looks like being slightly less so.
I was listening to exiled Zimbabweans on radio 4 talking as if it was some magical happening and saying that white farmers would be asked to return. I think they were deluded with Ill placed joy.

[zebo]

Most of Africa was better before their much vaunted 'independence', in almost every country there have been despotic vicious rulers who have taken control, pillaged their country of its wealth for their own benefit, robbed the overseas aid they demanded and turned it into a basketcase. I would love to see Zimbabwe happy and prosperous again but I'm not holding my breath, the new guy seems to be as bad as Mugabe and in the pocket of the Chinese.

[jim360]

But at least the people living in the "degenerate cesspits" were able to take back control of their own fate, eh?

Colonialism doesn't excuse anything Mugabe, or other recent African despotic leaders, may do, but it's the height of arrogance to pretend that it made everything in Africa etc better, and that even now Africans would be better off under "our" control.

[jno]

I've also heard that life was better under the British. But only from the British. Africans don't seem quite so sure. Funny, that.

[ToraToraTora]

did you read what eddie wrote jno? Still not an unexpected dig from one of our top anti British.

[EDDIE51]

^ It was only black Zambians who told me how much better it was under British rule. This was in the 1970s when Ian Smith still ruled Southern Rhodesia.
I met a black South African on a 1st class flight to Livingstone (Victoria Falls)
he was immaculately dressed and spoke perfect English. He was the first black South African I had met.
Remember this was the 1970s at the height of apartheid.
I asked him how long he had been in Zambia and commented that it must be good to be in a free country with no racial segregation.
His answer astounded me! He said it was 4 very long weeks and he could not wait to get back to SA. He then said that he had gone to a hospital as he had been taken ill but the hospital had no medicine not even aspirin. I replied that this was true but it was exactly the same for me as treatment did not depend on your skin colour.
He said that in (1970s) South Africa he did have to go to a different hospital than a white person would use. But that hospital still had all the drugs and equipment it needed.
I then told him that in Zambia at least black and white had the same problems of shortages.

[ToraToraTora]

not arrogance, jim, fact. Look at what's become of Rhodesia, are you seriously saying they are better off now?