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Zimbabwe and the steep road to vindication

Posted by seumasach on December 28, 2010

Netfa Freeman

Aletho News

14th December, 2010

When Zimbabwe initiated fast track land redistribution in 2000 it was big news for corporate media to echo several patented denunciations, characterizing the process as rife with corruption, violence, and inefficiency and doomed to fail. More than eager to join the fray was the liberal left whose pseudo analysis reiterated the same line accompanied by an aversion to anything that seemed even remotely favorable to Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PF party.

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U-turn in UK’s Zimbabwe policy welcome

Posted by smeddum on May 2, 2009

Posted: Monday, April 27, 2009

The Herald
Opinion & Analysis
Saturday, April 25, 2009   Race and history

THE inclusive Government is not just gaining the support and confidence of Zimbabweans; it has now started attracting support in the international community and even from those countries that led the sanctions charge.

Britain this week very quietly announced, during a meeting between British Ambassador Mr Andrew Pocock and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara, that the United Kingdom would no longer vote against funding for Zimbabwe at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. Read the rest of this entry »

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African Leaders: Lift Sanctions Against Zimbabwe Now!

Posted by seumasach on February 19, 2009

 

Jan. 31 (EIRNS)—London, which has consistently taken the lead in attacks against the Zimbabwe government for not being democratic, is taking a chilly attitude toward the agreement between three Zimbabwe parties to form a Government of National Unity, instead of helping the new government to be a success.

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