WELL PUT SALLY— U STOLE THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH. SURELY AS THE MOST PROLIFIC ZIMBABWEAN “ACTIVIST” (i use the term…very loosely), it is Tsvangirai’s business to know and understand the heart of his party and those he is willing to “die for”. Considering many are still sceptical about the events surrounding his wife’s death, i would have assumed Mr T would be a little bit more alert to the covert operation of our rulling party. The incident left me questioning not only his motives but his intellectual aptitude and ability to bring about “democray”. Time for a completely new direction???- perhaps

My concern as a South African is that if Morgan and his “team” go around the world giving a false picture of life in Zimbabwe, that will give leverage to people e.g. in our Home Affairs department to chase Zimbabweans away and harass them as before.

Meanwhile the situation on the ground in Zimbabwe has changed very little for those without access to USD and we all know it. Later in the year when the cholera comes back, as expected, and the hungry months come, as expected, there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth, and more floods of refugees.

I’m also deeply concerned by what I see as a failure of the MDC to get to grip with what the ruination of Zimbabwean commercial agriculture really means. I’m out of touch these days but thinking back to my growing up years during the Bush War, it seemed that just about every company except for the mining companies and the parastatals, was linked in some way to the agricultural industry which at the time was prodigious despite being much less heavily subsidised than the South African equivalent and indeed subject to REAL sanctions (trade sanctions).

Zim was all about food: mielies, wheat, canning, bottling, sugar, meat factories. So where is this great growth going to come from, with nothing but weeds to harvest, limited farming skills, animals long turned to dust and transport infrastructure falling apart?

I’m so afraid that Zimbabweans will end up back at Square One, but if the only people expressing views are sitting in London, that’s not going to make much of an impact is it.