Cdl Napier & Zimbabwe

[HagiaSophia]

From Catholic news Service:

South Africa would be “most reckless” to send aid to Zimbabwe, which is “in absolute chaos,” said the president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference.

“Giving money to (Zimbabwe President Robert) Mugabe can be compared to giving money to an alcoholic beggar who tells you he has given up drink and will spend the money on food,” Cardinal Wilfrid F. Napier of Durban said in a mid-July telephone interview from Durban.

The cardinal had returned from a two-day trip to Zimbabwe as part of a delegation with the ecumenical South African Council of Churches.

Mugabe is reportedly seeking a loan from South Africa to pay for electricity, fuel and food to offset chronic shortages.

South Africa is in talks with the Zimbabwean government and may end up aiding its neighbor financially, South African President Thabo Mbeki told reporters July 24.

catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0504318.htm

 

[MikeWM]

HagiaSophia:

From Catholic news Service:

South Africa would be “most reckless” to send aid to Zimbabwe, which is “in absolute chaos,” said the president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference.

This is a very difficult situation and I profess to having no idea what the answer is.

Giving them aid or a loan will presumably get some of it through to the suffering people, but obviously corruption will prevent all of it getting through. This also helps the people in power, who caused the problem in the first place, to remain in power

Conversely, not giving them help will be a way of speeding up the overthrow of the people in power who are creating such a mess. But in the meantime the ordinary people will suffer horribly

Situations like this make me glad I don’t have to make these kinds of decisions.

Mike

 

[Catholic29]

A difficult situation indeed,

This demonstrates that there are as many political barriers afoot, as much as there is a lack of will in developed countries to provide material sustanance. It is a vicious cycle, where I think the solution lies with corrupt regimes reforming or stepping down before humanitarian/economic assistance is provided.

How tragic it is when one must enrich the corrupt in order to help the needy.:nope:

 

[David_Paul]

The Beit Alfa kibbutz should send aid. It sold Mugabe hundreds of millions in military equipment.

 

[Lizzie]

It is diabolical that these foreign influences collaborate with dictator Mugabe to destroy the peoples of Zimbabwe.

The man who financed Mugabe’s reign of terror is Nicholas von Hoogstraten. This week Hoogstraten was rewarded by being given control of Zimbabwe’s banking and much of its mining. In the past Mugabe gave much land to Hoogstraten for his support.

In the meanwhile, Zimbabwe natives now starve. Before foreign-controlled Mugabe, Zimbabwe was considered the bread basket of Africa…feeding themselves and also exporting grain.

 

[David_Paul]

Lizzie…we hear about the evils of colonialism all the time but not the individuals who are looting Africa today.