Could "Victor" in "Moscow" possibly be aka "Alton Hadzisa" from "Wallington", whose comical contributions appear elsewhere on this website? Look him up for some more hilariously wide-of-the-mark Mugabe propaganda.

Johnny, London,

Vincent in Moscow appears to be unable to see the similarities between Stalin gulag system of murder and Mugabe's methods of dealing with dissent.

Oliver Fuller, Maud, Scotland

Mugabe's regime has been too ignorant to understand the results of making mean decisions by driving away potential investers knowing fully well that our country is agriculture based. For that fact they have shown no remose to the white farmers and Zimbabwean citizens at large.
There is still a chance to revive the agricultural sector if they are ready to accept their mistakes. Nhema should surrender the farm if he is unable to make full use of the farm hence creating an opportunity for others to put it to proper use which will revive the economy of the country as a whole.

Tendai Nheta, Manchaster, Lancashire

In what sense is it "better", Victor in Moscow?

Furriskey, Singapore,

Does this mean that Ian Smith was right ?

Kevin, Johannesburg, South Africa

Vincent, Moscow, Russia: Communism alive and well then? That didn't work either. Mentioning the House of Lords is a bit antiquated, can you support that the farm was owned by one of its members? It's the Zimbabwean workers I feel sorry for, they are left with nothing. Inteference in Zimbabwe would have had a better result that intefering in Iraq but all the African nations are guilty of just standing by and letting that maniac ruin their country.

Christine, Hayes, Middlesex, Good old England

We have got to shut the UN down. It serves no constructive purpose.

Jon Carry, Boston, MA

What an odd comment from the American woman. Does she not understand the concept of investigative journalism perhaps?
For clarification, in England we occasionally look beyond the fascinating world of Paris Hilton in our newspapers.

Victoria, London, UK

$Z32,000 might be equivalent to £64 a month at the official rate, but in terms of buying power or realistic values there are currently about a quarter million Zim dollars to the pound. This means that $Z32,000 is worth about 15p - a lot less than the bus fare to go and cash the cheque.

P. Lees, Radstock, BANES

I don't know whether to laugh or to cry - they say satire died when Kissinger won the peace prize - but I feel this may just top that.

Is this a lesson as to why the US sees fit to bypass the UN - rotten mechanism for pork barrelling that it is.

Kimani, Nairobi,

One can only marvel that the governments of responsible nations (presumably composed of adults) would tolerate a union as corrupt, incompetent, and dysfunctional as the United Nations representing their collective international aspirations.

The United Nations' headquarters should be removed from Manhattan to Chairman Nhema's Zimbabwean farm, where the international bureaucrats resonsible for Nhema's chairmanship could more usefully contemplate their own folly.

Michael Grable, SILVER SPRING, MD/USA

The turnaround potential of this farm may be greatly enhanced by a comprehensive prior progrem of supervised neglect, with greater percentage improvements made possible by lowering the base for comparison.

dr venables preller, Warminster, UK

I have no problem with the way this man handles his land. Get a life. Take care of your land. Oh, you do not have any? Oh!

diane smith, Detroit, Mi., U.S.A.

Yet more evidence of the systematic destruction of Zimbabwe by Mugabe and his criminal cohorts. Somewhat indicative of the state of the UN as well, as an international vehicle of this corruption. Does anyone actually think the UN is anything other than a bunch of pigs feeding at the trough?

Ed, London,

If the United States and Britain can sit on the Security Council of the UN after murdering 600,000 Iraqis on the basis of cooked intelligence, then Zimbabwe can sit on any UN body...

It is better for this farm to be in the hands of a Zimbabwean than in the hands of a member of the British House of Lords claiming to be a commercial farmer, as was the case before Mugabe intervened...

Vincent, Moscow, Russia

The UN is now a joke at exactly the time in history it is needed the most. Zimbabwe is a tragedy and it disgusts me to see how the cabal of African leaders all fawn about the monster Mugabe.

roger kingston, york, UK

The fact that the UN appointed this man to any position says everything you need to know about the UN. If its peacekeeping troops aren't selling guns to rebels its staff in its HQ are corrupt. Who is going to clean it out?

Peggy Webb, Blyth, Northumberland

The fact that he could even have been appointed Environment Minister in Zimbabwe speaks volumes for the (mis)management of that sad country. The further fact that he has accepted his offices in Zimbabwe and the United nations speaks volumes about his ignorance of his own abilities.

Surely there is no hope for that country while Mr Mugabe and his cronies are in power!

Duncald, Melbourne, Australia