From: "Margo Goldstone" <kms3-AT-khulisa.com>
Subject: RE: Zimbabwe
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:33:00 +0200


Thanks Grant for putting the Zimbabwean issue on the list agenda. Judging by
the non-discussion on this list
even 'progressives' in the North/West seem oblivious to the catastrophic
outcome of these elections!!!


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
[mailto:owner-postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of Grant
McKenna
Sent: 13 March 2002 01:05
To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Zimbabwe


Robert Mugabe seems to have won the Zimbabwean election with 1.7 million
votes against Morgan Tsvangirai's 1.3 million, and has ordered the army
deployed to suppress "rebellious elements".

And South Africa looks set to recognise the elections as free and fair.
Honestly, I feel ashamed. And worried, because if such behaviour is
tolerated there, will it happen to me here in South Africa?

Oh hell. Any suggestions on how to make supporting a brutal and repressive
government sound morally acceptable, oh fellow listees in the US of A? At
least you've got experience in that sort of thing...



Grant McKenna
Education Officer
Old Court House Museum
eThekweni Heritage Department
eThekweni Metropolitan Unicity Municipality
77 Aliwal Street, Durban, kwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
GrantM-AT-prcsu.durban.gov.za
+27 82 876 9635
+27 31 311 2228
Opinions expressed are not the responsibility of my employer.
!KE E:/XARRA / /KE





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