Basil,

Thanks to you and all the other brothers who have sent us ladies Valentine's
greetings. It shows that our men do have very soft spots in their hearts for
us, and we all appreciate that very much.
On the land issue in Zimbabwe, you are quite right. Mugabe  had many years in
which he could  have taken care of that , and it was just a tool for him to
use this time around. However,  the people of Zimbabwe saw through that farce
very quickly. He thought he could use it as a smoke screen to blind the
people to what he was actually up to, which is as you rightly pointed out, to
consolidate himself in power.It is a good sign that our people are becoming
politically savvy, and will no longer tolerate these kinds of tactics, and i
say long live this trend of thinking on our continent.

Jabou

In a message dated 2/17/00 7:28:28 AM Central Standard Time,
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 Hi Jabou,

 By the way belated happy valentine's day to you and all the
 sisters on the L. I totally agree with you that land in
 Zimbabwe should be redistributed to the majority of black
 farmers in the name of fairness. After all their land was
 forcibly taken from them during UDI. My contention is why
 has it taken Mugabe almost 20 years to do something about
 it and now he is accusing the opposition of citing with the
 white farmers, which is a lot of nonsense. My observation
 is that he is trying to use the land issue (which is very
 noble and playing on peoples sentiments) to consolidate
 himself in power. It would have given him the authority to
 rule with an iron fist allowing him to dissolve parliament
 and the cabinet and rule by decree. Now i don't think
 that's what Zimbabwe needs at this point in time.

 Frankly the land issue should have been the first thing
 settled after independence and did he really need a draft
 constitution to do so. Thanks for sharing the radio
 commentry.

 basil
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