Zimbabwe - SA's Achille's Heal

[Obaht]

Get ready folks.

SA is about to see millions of Zimbobwean refugees flooding over the border soon and there is not a thing that the ANC can do about it. It's too late!

Tell me. Where is the hope in SA these days?

Here is the news as seen from Canada:

"Zimbabwe About to Implode"

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=991160

"Zimbabwe faces collapse, starvation"

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=880540

 

[Phenom]

And where do we find the trillions to take care of these people, while we can't even take care of our own, above that, the rand just halved in value again.

NOT our responsibility, send them to Zambia/Botswana/Mozambique.

 

[Phenom]

They have created this mess, they should be the ones to fix it. If we are always going to go this way, eventually the entire world will look like this. They should fix their own country. It's almost useless being productive and good in this world if careless and ignorant people keep on taking your stuff, just so that they can further ruin things for all.

 

[marine1]

Quiet diplomacy really worked well. Well done TBone

 

[PPC_SouthAfrica]

We can't even help our poor now we have to help Zim this just doesn't make any sense.

 

[daveza]

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-11-26-us-treasury-blacklists-four-mugabe-cronies

Foreign Minister Phandu Skelemani also told BBC World News that regional powers must admit they had failed to resolve the deadlock between Tsvangirai and Mugabe and should now bring economic pressure to bear.

Botswana's President Ian Khama is one of the few African leaders to openly criticise Mugabe, saying his re-election in June was not legitimate.

The foreign minister also said the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regional bloc must admit that its mediation efforts have failed.

"The international community, SADC first of all, must now own up that they have failed -- which we have said, that we as SADC have failed. The rest of us should now own up and say yes, we have failed," Skelemani told the BBC.

After that, it should "call upon the international community and tell Mugabe to his face, look, now you are on your own, we are switching off, we are closing your borders, and I don't think he would last", he said.

"If no petrol went in for a week, he can't last."

Respect.