Mollen if there was no cold war we could still be having Ian Smith as our leader today. Its difficult for Zimbabweans to rise up against a brutal dictator without any military backing.

During the Simth era we had the Chinese and the Soviets backing the liberation struggle not because they liked blacks or sympathised with your plight but because they were opposed to the West and they were fighting an indirect war with the west.

Now there is no cold war so the poor blackman is left hung out to dry. If the leader of the opposition is brutalised and thrown in front of the world media for all to see and the world sit quietly without doing anything what chance is there for the ordinary man?

The world doesnt care anymore I really wish the cold war could come back. Maybe just maybe we might have another super power to run to

George Hove, Harare, zimbabwe

Zimbabweans will have to sort themselves out on this one .Loooking back when they got tired of the Smith Regime they sorted themsevs out ,so with this issue it will be just a matter of time.

moleen ndongwe, woking/surrey, uk

Please allow me to sit on the fence on this one.
When 50 000 Matebele were murdered in cold blood by the North Korean trained Gukurahundi( 5th Brigade) , USA and Britain were silent. And he was never called a Dictator or Murderer, no sanctions. No! the truth is their kith and kin in Zimbabwe were not touched and still enjoyed the same lifestyle as during the colonial and UDI days. They controlled 75% of the economy and two thirds of the arable land. Britain made a monumental error of not fulfilling part of the Lancaster House Agreement (funding land reposession)that indirectly secured the continued comfortable lifestyle of whites. Mugabe hit back by sending War Vets to lead in repossessing farms. Only now did the West raise their voice and power of sanctions. Now he is a dictator and failed African leader. Yes they are corrupt and some of Mugabe's policies disturbed the economy but to respond when it suites you NO! Now the country is on its knees, do we blame the black govt only?

Meja ZIMONDI, dallas, TX

Leave the west alone. They are enjoying the suffering in Zimbabwe while the 'bet' on 'what next'. they are the ones who killed the country in the first place.

Donald, birmingham, uk

If the white world decides to recolonise Black people, I am sure that majority of ordinary black people would welcome it. We have failed in all respects to prove that we are not inferior by building from where the colonial masters stopped. The fact that there is no successful society of Black people anywhere on this planet means we have failed to prove that we are not inferior! As an enlightened black man, I will never shy away from the fact that my people are a failure!! However, I believe we can succeed like the Asians, only if we could decolonise our minds. The greatest enemies of Zimbabwe today are the minority of colonial idiots in the country who are sabotaging their economy in order to please white supremacists! I will never agree that Mugabe is the worst of the worst simply because the white world is saying so. If our white masters really care beyond keeping us their perpetual slaves, they must apply the same standard for democracy and good governance for all Black societies.

John Iteshi, London, UK

The Western world has let down the people of Zimbabwe badly. It is common knowledge that if the West really want Mugabe out they will get him out tomorrow, so why dont they get him out .. Mugabe is serving their ulteria motives and the West want him there to perform a silent genocide.

The West know that hunger fuels disease and in a Country like Zimbabwe where there is AIDS hunger is a major fuel for the spread of HIV. And who is dying from HIV? Its the blackman. AIDS is doing what the West failed to do with their Family planning projects and its more convinient to have a leader like Mugabe who causes untold suffering to his own people while the West watches. The West is beyond reproach on this one. I beg to ask if the suffering that the people of Zimbabwe are going through was being experienced by a White country would it have been tolerated? Hell No.

But here we have Black on Black so its convinient to turn the blind eye when 3500 people are dying every week from AIDS

George Hove, Harare, zimbabwe

Mugabe has beaten his people into sheep-like submission. Even in the face of almost unbelieveable poverty and hunger, no one inside or outside Zimbabwe seems able to bring about any change in the government.

Joseph Rust, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Cry the beloved country - when is the regional superpower, South Africa going to take responsibility for sorting out this catastrophy which has lead to a tsunami of refugees crossing the Limpopo? Soon there will be more Zimbabweans in South Africa than those left in Zimbabwe. This unfolding man made disaster is beyond the capability of Zimbabweans to resolve themselves. Zimbabwe would be far better of as an integral part of South Africa. South Africa must annex.

Arnold Ward, Weybridge, Surrey, UK

Zimbabwe was once one of Africa's richest and most prosperous countries under ian Duncan Smith, a zimbabwean born (Rhodesia at the time) national. But he happened to be white so the politically correct west (britain in particular) forced him out and Mugabe in. Well done..

philip walters, rochester, uk

why is the un failing to take control within the old man

jeff, gabz, botswana

Mugabe is an exponent of adverse racisme.
Shame on S.A. for upholding his regime - they should know better.
When Mugabe falls - and he will - they will probably ensure his safe retirement, as the Saudis did Amin.
Mugabe has been brain dead for years.
If S.A. doesn't realize this, their leadership must be on the same route.
A Danish M.P. once proclaimed: "If that's a fact, I deny the fact". He now tends a hot dog stand.....

Gerald B., Viborg, Denmark