We were/are enraged by the sight of yesterday's New York Times front page photo that we could hardly stay quiet around people in the market complaining that they couldn't buy everything they wanted. Children collecting (& eating) hard kernels of corn spilt on a road.Robert Mugabe is a war criminal & should be forced from "service" by fellow Africans. He is NOT a resistance hero & it has been many, many years since that could be said with a straight face. It's disgusting how South African "leaders" have done nothing. Botswana & a few other countries have had the guts to say aloud what should be done. But South Africa is the regional power that could really do something.
It dishonors Nelson Mandela to speak of Mugabe as the same sort of national hero.
Zimbabweans are more than half-starved, cold, & physically in no condition to have a huge uprising. This seems to elude many people who say, "Let the Zimbabweans get rid of him." Could you do that after years of starvation, cholera, general scavenging to try to stay alive? Beatings? NO, you could not, we guarantee it.
photograph of children picking up food by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/Associated Press