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‘Real, unbridled optimism’ lives in Zimbabwe

STEPHANIE NOLEN

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

Latest comment posted at 1:04 PM EDT 29/03/08

Mugabe ally's defection gives opposition hope, however slim, that they can win today's elections in spite of long legacy of rigged polls ...Read the full article

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  1. V ADS from Canada writes: Zimbabwe is a beautiful and bountiful nation. Once its people get rid of Mugabe, it will rise again. Maybe not this election, but the next.

    Zim has a Parliamentary and judicial system based on the British model that most people in nation respect and honour. I know. I've been there. Mugabe wants to destroy that legacy at any price, because he bet on the wrong horse (USSR), as did most of Africa.
  2. GlynnMhor of Skywall from Canada writes: While optimists may hope for an election victory, I fear that Mugabe will only leave Zimbabwe 'on his shield'.

    May that day arrive soon.
  3. CD W from Canada writes: Rhodesia needs freedom. Zimbabwe has had their version of freedom.
  4. Michael Wiseman from Canada writes: It's true, if it were not for VOTE RIGGING Mugabe would have been disposed off a long time ago. Many in the western world have said Zimbabweans are getting a government they deserve, however, I don't think so. It takes a journalist like Stephanie to get it. If you go by how big the rallies Mugabe gets you would be hugely mistaken.

    Having followed the Zimbabwe story for a while, I can't see the recent split by this senior senior ZANU-PF official making any difference. It would have been nice if he had thrown his support behind the MDC party. Like Nolan reported, I too think it could be a ploy.

    I suppose the results will tell. Win or lose Mugabe should just graciously bow and go somehwere, maybe Russia, Malaysia, Lybia or some such minded country.
  5. Stefan Steele from Halifax, Canada writes: Mugabe will never give up power. He will rule what is left of Rhodesia until he dies of old age or is killed.
  6. John North from Vancouver, Canada writes: Where is the world on Mugabe?
  7. Ricky for a Centrist Canada from Canada writes:
    Ask the "liberators", John....the "exporters of democracy"....I'm sure they'll get right on it.
  8. Robert Boyd from Windsor, Canada writes: Mr Mugabe claims to be the 'liberator' - that in spite of the fact that himself and his raggedy ar$e 'army' were booted around Rhodesia by a small black army with a core of whites conscripts that disbanded when the (fully functioning) country was taken over by himself after a fair and square election.
    Mugabe was a fraud from the days that the west kissed his bum and he will die unlamented - then the blood letting and revenge will begin as a new despot liberates the people.
    God help them - the cowards who populate the Democracies won't and neither will their African brothers.

    "Ricky for a Centrist Canada from Canada writes:
    Ask the "liberators", John....the "exporters of democracy"....I'm sure they'll get right on it."
  9. Francois A. from Calgary, Canada writes: This just in President Mugabe easily defeated his opponents... with 100% of the polls reporting Mugabe is ahead by 32,000,000 millions votes...
  10. Joyce Smith from Vancouver, Canada writes: I'm so tired of hearing about the corrupt Mugabe. Why doesn't he croak already??!!
  11. Steve Smith from Canada writes: Look at Zimbabwe now. that is where South Africa will be in 10 years.

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