A Chinese delegation visited Zimbabwe earlier this week in a bid to shoot a documentary that will help advertise Zimbabwe around the world, especially in Asia. According to the Minister of Tourism, Cde Francis Nhema, the visit by the delegation was a very positive development as it would go a long way in marketing Zimbabwe as a safe tourist destination. He went on to say the visit was a clear sign of the growing relations and co-operation between Zimbabwe and China.
It is time Zimbabwe learns from its mistakes. Let us not tolerate other peoples rubbish just because we are desperate. Zimbabwe wasted billions of dollars on Chinese tractors which did not last a season. Most of the tractors broke down during first use and could not be repaired.
They know that they are the ones who are benefiting from Zimbabwe and that is why they keep patronising us. On the other hand, the Zimbabwe government wants to be seen as having international friends, hence the shoddy deals with China and the Middle East.
In terms of tourism, the Chinese are very stingy and we must not expect to get a lot of tourists from that side of the world. They like to visit Zimbabwe only to make deals with our government and to exploit us. The said documentary is just another Chinese Circus and will not yield any good results.
The Chinese are known to be good at running corner shops where they sell poor quality goods from China. They do not employ many local people, and if they do, they dont pay them well. At the moment they are busy taking over companies in Zimbabwe but there is no reasonable production that has been witnessed yet. This move is not going to benefit millions of unemployed people as the Chinese will bring labour from China. We dont want our country to be taken over by people who helped to destroy the livelihood of millions of Zimbabweans.
After the evil Operation Murambatsvina which saw the destruction of flea markets countrywide, the Chinese flooded the market with their goods.
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Zimbabwe wasted billions of dollars on Chinese tractors which did not last a season. Most of the tractors broke down during first use and could not be repaired.
Recommend you switch to New Holland tractors for the upcoming planting season, whahahhahaa.
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Belarius tractors seem to be big in our area, looks like a semi-direct replacement for the old "Farmall Cub". Very nice medium-small tractor, looks good for small gardens (10 acres or so)
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Should read:
"We dont want people who come to exploit us help us but we need friends that will come to help us develop exploit us. Thats why we have chosen to work with the Chinese," he said.
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Zimbabwe wasted billions of dollars on Chinese tractors which did not last a season. Most of the tractors broke down during first use and could not be repaired.
Ah ha ha ha ha...did that to you, too, did they? Yup, that's a pretty typical experience for a first-time buyer of imported Chinese products.
"Not acceptable," says Ban Ki Moon, new Secretary-General of the United Nations. "Repulsive," say the editors of Britain's Guardian newspaper. "An insult . . . to the memory of millions of Jews," says Hillary Rodham Clinton. Global polite society is in an uproar over the Holocaust conference organized this week in Tehran under the auspices of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Moral denunciation is what reasonable people do--what they must do--when a regime that avows the future extermination of six million Jews in Israel denies the past extermination of six million Jews in Europe. But let's be frank: Global polite society has been blazing its own merry trail toward this occasion for decades.
The Australian Financial Review is not the Journal of Historical Review, the Holocaust-denying "scholarly" vehicle of some of the Tehran conferees. But in 2002 the AFR thought it fit to print the following by Joseph Wakim, at one point the country's multicultural affairs commissioner: "Sharon's war is not a war," he wrote. "Genocide would be a more accurate description." In Ireland Tom McGurk, a columnist in the very mainstream Sunday Business Post, noted that "the scenes at Jenin last week looked uncannily like the attack on the Warsaw Jewish ghetto in 1944." Jose Saramago, Portugal's Nobel Laureate in Literature, observed after a visit to Ramallah that the Israeli incursion into the city "is a crime that may be compared to Auschwitz." . . .
In fact, anti-Zionism has become for many anti-Semites a cloak of political convenience. But anti-Zionism has also become an ideological vehicle for an anti-Semitism that increasingly feels no need for disguise. In January 2002, the New Statesman magazine had a cover story on "The Kosher Conspiracy." For art, they had a gold Star of David pointed like a blade at the Union Jack. This wasn't anti-Zionism. It was anti-Zionism matured into unflinching anti-Semitism. And it was featured on the cover of Britain's premiere magazine of "progressive" thought.
The scholar Gregory Stanton has observed that genocides happen in eight stages, beginning with classification, symbolization and dehumanization, and ending in extermination and denial. What has happened in Tehran--denial--may seem to have turned that order on its head. It hasn't. The road to Tehran is a well-traveled one, and among those who denounce it now are some who have already walked some part of it.
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HARRY TRUMAN famously said that if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. By refusing Brandeis's invitation to take part in a debate about his new book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," former president Jimmy Carter is saying that he can't take the heat -- after giving his book a controversial title and boasting of a desire to be provocative.
Some of the fury Carter has provoked is so overwrought that it appears to confirm his own overstated contention that any criticism of Israel is treated like heresy by the mainstream media. But it is precisely because of the hyperbole of his critics, and the seriousness of the issues he wants to raise, that Carter should agree to debate that inveterate defender of Israel, Alan Dershowitz.
At the least, Carter should welcome a chance to defend his deliberate choice of the emotionally charged word, "apartheid," in his title. In one of the text's three references to apartheid, Carter quotes an unnamed "prominent Israeli" saying, "I am afraid that we are moving toward a government like that of South Africa, with a dual society of Jewish rulers and Arab subjects with few rights of citizenship. The West Bank is not worth it."
This sentiment is not uncommon among members of Israel's vital peace camp. Their evocations of apartheid are usually intended, however, to emphasize the contradiction between the depredations of the occupation and the ideals of Israeli democracy.
Carter himself describes "a system of apartheid" not as the inalterable essence of the status quo but as one of three options that confront Israel. The other two are "forcible annexation of Palestine" or a negotiated peace along the lines of the unofficial Israeli-Palestinian draft agreement known as the Geneva Initiative, with "mutually agreeable exchanges of land permitting a significant number of Israeli settlers to remain in their present homes near Jerusalem."
This is a more conventional prescription than the furor over Carter's title might suggest. Large numbers of Israelis and Palestinians favor just this kind of negotiated end to their conflict. Moreover, Carter concedes that "the driving purpose for the forced separation of the two peoples is unlike that in South Africa -- not racism but the acquisition of land." This is true, and it is also true that the solution Carter commends is for a separation of Israelis and Palestinians into two sovereign states, the opposite of the political solution that ended South African apartheid.
If he were to accept a genuine debate about his use of the word "apartheid," Carter would probably have to admit he was being irresponsibly provocative. The rest of his brief for Mideast peace hardly differs from the consensus of rational Israelis, Palestinians, and Americans. Carter is an orthodox peacenik posing as a heretic. Maybe that's the real reason he has declined to debate. No, he just hates Jooooz...
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