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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 03:00
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Elections & governance [2]
Issue Number: 
251 [3]
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Mugabe famously said in 1980: “Tomorrow is thus our birthday, the birthday of great Zimbabwe and the birthday of its nation. Tomorrow we shall cease to be men and women of the past and become men and women of the future. It is tomorrow then, not yesterday, which bears our destiny. As we become a new people we are called to be constructive, progressive and forever forward looking. For we cannot afford to be men of yesterday backward looking, retrogressive and distractive.” Sadly, says this art...read more [4]

Mugabe famously said in 1980: “Tomorrow is thus our birthday, the birthday of great Zimbabwe and the birthday of its nation. Tomorrow we shall cease to be men and women of the past and become men and women of the future. It is tomorrow then, not yesterday, which bears our destiny. As we become a new people we are called to be constructive, progressive and forever forward looking. For we cannot afford to be men of yesterday backward looking, retrogressive and distractive.” Sadly, says this article from the blog as Zimbabwe celebrates 26 years of Independence Mugabe has failed to be constructive or progressive.
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Governance [6]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/elections/33582 [7]
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Zimbabwe [8]

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