Has Dlamini-Zuma lost her mind (?)

[daveza]

http://www.fin24.com/articles/default/display_article.aspx?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-25_2425295

SA: Lift sanctions on Zimbabwe
Nov 12 2008 18:14


Brussels - The European Union and the US should help Zimbabwe develop its agriculture and attract investment rather than impose sanctions that have hurt the people, South Africa's foreign minister said on Wednesday.

Washington and Brussels have imposed visa bans and asset freezes on President Robert Mugabe and other senior Zimbabwean officials. US sanctions also bar Americans from engaging in any transactions or dealings with them.

"They (the sanctions) hurt the ordinary people ... if you have sanctions against the government then obviously investors will not want to deal with that government, tourists get frightened," Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said in an interview.

Sanctions and the threat of further sanctions are the only thing that keeps Mug-Abe from massacring everyone who disagrees with him.

" tourists get frightened " ?!!

... and I actually help pay this persons salary ?

 

[gpe]

When are The European Union and the US going to impose missile strikes.

So basically she wants the US and EU to hand-out money for "free". Typical.

 

[rwenzori]

Can you lose what you never had?

 

[Alan]

http://www.fin24.com/articles/default/display_article.aspx?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-25_2425295



Sanctions and the threat of further sanctions are the only thing that keeps Mug-Abe from massacring everyone who disagrees with him.

" tourists get frightened " ?!!

... and I actually help pay this persons salary ?

Another OMG I can't believe I voted for these people moments

 

[daveza]

Another OMG I can't believe I voted for these people moments

I told you we would agree on something eventually !

 

[Alan]

I told you we would agree on something eventually !

Finally

 

[Hosehead]

Give them money for Agriculture? Well who's going to do the farming.? Who's capable of doing anything there?

 

[fskmh]

Well she's not completely useless, the entertainment factor has got to count for something.


From the comments on the Fin24.com site:

malangabi
Nov 12 2008 20:38

Sounds like this woman is the worlds only surviving brain transplant donor.

 

[noxibox]

Can you lose what you never had?

My first thought. She's never demonstrated having one.

 

[rwenzori]

From the comments on the Fin24.com site:

That is a classic comment!


I'd dispute its accuracy though - some of her colleagues ( Ivy, Manto ) also qualify.

 

[avdp]

The thread heading is a rhetorical questionI guess......

 

[Slaine73]

Typical Africa mentality, we want and you must give

 

[USZA]

The minister actually has a point BUT, there's prerequisites before that condition can be filled, like

• sorting out the political impasse in Zimbabwe

• establishing a TRUE government of national unity

It's too bad though that the minister left this out, because what she said would actually have merit if it was framed in that context.

 

[Albereth]

Your flaw is in the title of the thread - you have assumed that she had one to begin with.