Comments on: Exorcise your inner apparatchik

By: Jo

Jo — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:42:51 +0000

Yes, we feel very frustrated. I am not sure if what I am going to say now will make you feel better or worse.

In the five years’ that I have spent out of Zimbabwe, I would say that we have a very much stronger commitment to democracy and the equal, even courteous, treatment of people than the people in the countries in which I have lived and worked. And I can assure you that these countries believe themselves to be leading lights of democracy.

That’s not to say we couldn’t improve and that we can’t learn from other countries. I just missed the inevitable witty comment that would be made when somebody abused their position of trust.

If you think of that queue again, I wouldn’t mind betting that you heard a couple of ironic comments??

By: Enrique Meneses

Enrique Meneses — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:16:39 +0000

I have been two times in Zimbabwe. The country is beautiful and I recomended to visit it to Spaniards. I would libe to know several thinks:

1.- Does tribal considerations had any influence in the 28 years strugle of oposition to Mugabe ?

2.- There was a Spaniard owner of a restaurant in Bulawayo. I produced the best paellas in Africa. Does him or descent still managed the restaurant?

3.- I knew, from the time of Ian Smith, Lynn Memel, head of Rhodisian Television. Is she still alive?

Thank you for helping me.

best regards,
Enrique

By: tc

tc — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:09:26 +0000

This is such a pertinent comment on the kind of psychological disposition that Zimbabweans have. As well as political change on a large scale all these kind of ways of working in daily life, whereby one person assumes rights others don’t have and others are cowed by it and don’t stand for themselves as equals, have to change, slowly. That’s years and years of history, all of our lifetimes, of learning to get rid of, but it has to start somewhere.