When I heard that Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was
booed in London by ex-pats when he urged them to return and rebuild their shattered nation, I'd assumed they were people who, not surprisingly, didn't trust Mugabe one inch. IMHO Tsvangirai is responding not only up to the call of duty in his speeches, but perhaps beyond it. This is a man whose wife was killed in a probable assassination attempt only a few months ago - and now he's saying that things are on the mend. Maybe he's right - but one can't but be wary.
But he's in a difficult position - as Prime Minister, he can hardly go around calling his country a hell-hole - even if it still is.
Not so, according to CoE Bishop Tom
'It's What I Do' Butler, on this morning's BBC Thought For The Day (I paraphrase):
"No wonder the audience booed. Morgan Tsvangirai's appeal to them to return, and his implication that things were getting better, had the potential to seriously impact their asylum claims."
3 comments:
Bit outspoken of an Anglican clergy man isn't it?
I wonder if Stalin Mau Mau has got his British passport yet?
Ross said...
Bit outspoken of an Anglican clergy man isn't it?
Unless the Bish was having a go at anti-Zanu expatriates. Remember that it was the C of E that led the 'moral pressure' on the Government to force Zanu, Zapu, etc onto Rhodesia in the first place. Mugabe was their greatest success since the abolition of the slave trade.
Oops.
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