Thabo Mbeki is a genocidal criminal who ought to be facing the International Court of Justice for the unnecessary death of 300,000 South Africans.He also shares responsibility for the death of innumerable Zimbabweans who perished solely because Mbeki has provided the only support that syphilitic scum Robert Mugabe has.Those in the West who continue to cheer the 'rainbow nation' because they did well at rugby and Uncle Nelson has a nice friendly smile need to start paying attention.Mbeki has caused the death of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Africans. His single-party state continues to defy genuine democratic principles. And worst of all, he has sustained the evil of the Mugabe regime a full generation after it should have ended.Not that I expect the apologists for Mugabe's despotism...
This is Robert Mugabe's new house:It cost around $26 million dollars and took five years to build, five years during which Zimbabwe's economy completely fell apart, inflation spiralled up to hundreds of thousands of per cent per year, and thousands of the poorest lost their shanty shack homes in slum clearances ordered by Mugabe.But Robert sleeps well at night:He dines well too. Even though 80% of the population are without work in Zimbabwe, Mugabe's kitchen and chefs ensure that he and his Zanu cronies are well fed:And they can always relax later for cocktails by the pool, and discuss perhaps the pressing matters of the day.Like the election they lost then stole back. Like the tens of thousands of citizens who've fled the country. Like the fact that they'll get away with it because the...
It's hard to know what the correct response is, when you encounter a story as bizarre, shocking and innately tragic as this.To summarise, dozens of 'witchdoctors' in the 'democratic republic' of the Congo have been arrested on suspicion that they have been using 'black magic' to shrink people's penises.According to a report from Reuters correspondents:Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some...
I know it's a hard call.After all, malaria kills up to three million people and infects over 500 million every year.Fundamentalist religious beliefs not only cause repression among those who espouse them, but also lead to the oppression, usually by violence, of those who don't.But of all the evils incomprehensibly permitted by God to ravage this poor planet, is there any greater cause of human misery than that rip-roaring cunt Michael O'Leary?We are informed by experts that experiencing misery is an essential part of truly comprehending happiness in life.But surely there is absolutely no excuse, no lesson to be learned, no mitigating factor in the unremitting evil that is Michael O'Leary and his army of hellspawn?By now you may have gathered that I broke a vow I made to myself, the...
I'm currently in Asia, reading about Africa. It's an interesting compare and contrast.I'm specifically reading Martin Meredith's 'The State of Africa', which chronicles how it all went wrong across Africa in the fifty years since most colonial powers pulled out and the various countries achieved independence.What a sorry litany of kleptocracy, famine, pointless war and endless tribal conflict it all adds up to.The irony is that many of those countries, whatever you care to think of the colonial legacy, were in pretty good financial shape when they were handed over to the indigenous 'Big Men' dictators who assumed control after independence.But after a few decades of nutters like Amin, Mobutu, Bongo and so on, the continent is in worse shape than it ever was.The contrast with Asia is...
Last month, I went to the land where everyone is waiting for one madman to die.It is also one of the most beautiful countries it has ever been my privilege to visit, populated by one of the most friendly peoples in the world.I took Mini-Skinner with me. We went to a beautiful safari lodge where each night, as we sat on the veranda for dinner, literally dozens of elephants came to drink at the watering hole below us. amazingly, there were only two other guests in the lodge.We visited the nearby world heritage site, a spectacular place of awesome natural beauty that was almost deserted. We went to the local craft market, where we were besieged by craft workers, desperate to sell their work at almost any price, including swapping beautifully carved statues for the grubby, sweaty baseball cap...