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Horace Campbell in makes too many generalised statements not supported by facts e.g. "Zimbabwean workers are being assaulted every day." This is a clear exaggeration coz I'm also a worker and have not witnessed the daily occurrence of this.
-on homophobia & virginity tests, how many people have actually been killed because they were gay? What's the extent, in numbers PLEASE, of the problem of virginity tests?

"It is scientifically NOT correct to say cholera is caused by "unsanitary conditions." The disease is, in fact, caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae. Unsanitary conditions catalyse the spread of cholera but do NOT cause it. That's why you can have dirty slums but without cholera ravaging there.

"If Mugabe is only popular "OUTSIDE of his own country" then in the March 29 elections why didn't the MDC win by a landslide margin like 95% to 5%?

Why is Campbell sanitizing the role of whites in the DRC mess? While he is happy to link Mugabe's military to the Rwanda genocide (itself questionable) why does he opt to be silent on the part played by Belgium, France, UK & the US?

While "African dictators" are associated with grand theft which requires the UN to lead repatriation of stolen wealth, how about the the daylight robbery of African resources by white former colonialists? How about reparations for the slave trade?

If Campbell thinks the sanctions imposed by the US, UK & EU are "targetted" at Mugabe & his cronies, he is either not being sincere or he is not serious! It's the common man who is suffering, not Mugabe. The German withdrawal of printing paper from the RBZ affects the poor man in the street who has to queue for days on end at the bank to get his meagre earnings. In short those sanctions are neither "smart" nor "targetted"