Morgan Tsvangirai: Because it wanted a taste of life on the other
side of the road. It was exercising its right.
Patrick Chinamasa: No. The chicken did not cross the road. In fact we need to verify whether in fact it was a chicken. As far as we know, the chicken is still there. It could have been an eagle. We have to wait until verification is done.
Didymus Mutasa: I do not think it crossed the road. If it crossed the road it's because the white farmer dragged it. But we cannot allow that to happen. It will have to come back.
Joseph Chinotimba: The kichen, no, chicken is a sell-out against the revolution. The `O' vets will have to eat it!
Robert Mugabe: The chicken will never be allowed to cross the road. Not in my life time! Let those that run away to Bush and Brown do so. Not my chicken! My chicken will never cross the road. It will never be colonised again!
Thabo Mbeki: Er . uhm . I don't see any chicken at the moment. Er. I think it is right for us to wait and see. Let things take the natural course. If. if. if it did cross the road we will be told officially. If it wants to cross the road we will see it when it crosses. There is nothing to talk about at the moment. Er. I don't see any problem right now.
Tendai Biti: We have irrefutable evidence from those who were at the road that the chicken has, indeed, without any shadow of doubt, crossed the road. I hereby declare that Chicken Huku Inkuku is now the legitimate resident of the other side of the road.
Bright Matonga: At the moment we know that it has not crossed the road, despite imperialist efforts to push it. We know they will try again and are now preparing to unleash the remaining 75 percent of our effort so that it can never be pushed again next time.
Nathaniel Manheru a.k.a. George Charamba: How can a chicken, itself a hapless bird, be expected to cross the road unless it is pushed deviously and surreptitiously by the hand of the vicious and uncouth imperialists? The only chicken that can cross that road is a stooge, a puppet, an instrument of the West that will be rocket-propelled by the loud fart of Brown and Bush . Icho!
Levy Mwanawasa: It knew the ground on that side was sinking like the Titanic. It had to cross.
General Chiwenga: It can't.
Commissioner-General Chihuri: It can't cross the road.
Gordon Brown: It was running away from Mugabe.
Jacob Zuma: I think it is important that we be told whether or not the chicken actually crossed road. That should be very easy to do.
Jonathan Moyo: Of course, the chicken crossed the road because it could not stand the nonsense on the other side. But the shameless securocrats will do everything in their power to prevent everyone from knowing that it, indeed, and unequivocally crossed the road.
Judge of the High Court: Whether or not it crossed the road is a matter for the officials to declare at their own time. They have the power to order a re-check and verification as to whether it crossed the road before they can make the declaration.
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission: We are not in a position to say whether or not the chicken crossed the road. There are some people who have complained that it probably wasn't a chicken at all and others saying it was being pushed or dragged against its will. We are currently considering whether to do a re-check before we can officially declare if the chicken crossed the road. We will take as long as we want to be fully certain that it was a chicken that crossed the road.
Ban Ki-Moon: Is pleased the AU has chickens that cross the road in transparency; L'ONU, l'UA SADC empereur poulets usure pas de vêtements de traverser la route.
Dalai Lama: Too the chicken - Vote Like it matters...
Desmond Tutu: Let the chickens be !
Zimbabwean: Too avoid political persecution, too earn a living, too eat, too seek medical treatment; too avoid financial persecution and an inflation rate with the most zeros in recent history...
side of the road. It was exercising its right.
Patrick Chinamasa: No. The chicken did not cross the road. In fact we need to verify whether in fact it was a chicken. As far as we know, the chicken is still there. It could have been an eagle. We have to wait until verification is done.
Didymus Mutasa: I do not think it crossed the road. If it crossed the road it's because the white farmer dragged it. But we cannot allow that to happen. It will have to come back.
Joseph Chinotimba: The kichen, no, chicken is a sell-out against the revolution. The `O' vets will have to eat it!
Robert Mugabe: The chicken will never be allowed to cross the road. Not in my life time! Let those that run away to Bush and Brown do so. Not my chicken! My chicken will never cross the road. It will never be colonised again!
Thabo Mbeki: Er . uhm . I don't see any chicken at the moment. Er. I think it is right for us to wait and see. Let things take the natural course. If. if. if it did cross the road we will be told officially. If it wants to cross the road we will see it when it crosses. There is nothing to talk about at the moment. Er. I don't see any problem right now.
Tendai Biti: We have irrefutable evidence from those who were at the road that the chicken has, indeed, without any shadow of doubt, crossed the road. I hereby declare that Chicken Huku Inkuku is now the legitimate resident of the other side of the road.
Bright Matonga: At the moment we know that it has not crossed the road, despite imperialist efforts to push it. We know they will try again and are now preparing to unleash the remaining 75 percent of our effort so that it can never be pushed again next time.
Nathaniel Manheru a.k.a. George Charamba: How can a chicken, itself a hapless bird, be expected to cross the road unless it is pushed deviously and surreptitiously by the hand of the vicious and uncouth imperialists? The only chicken that can cross that road is a stooge, a puppet, an instrument of the West that will be rocket-propelled by the loud fart of Brown and Bush . Icho!
Levy Mwanawasa: It knew the ground on that side was sinking like the Titanic. It had to cross.
General Chiwenga: It can't.
Commissioner-General Chihuri: It can't cross the road.
Gordon Brown: It was running away from Mugabe.
Jacob Zuma: I think it is important that we be told whether or not the chicken actually crossed road. That should be very easy to do.
Jonathan Moyo: Of course, the chicken crossed the road because it could not stand the nonsense on the other side. But the shameless securocrats will do everything in their power to prevent everyone from knowing that it, indeed, and unequivocally crossed the road.
Judge of the High Court: Whether or not it crossed the road is a matter for the officials to declare at their own time. They have the power to order a re-check and verification as to whether it crossed the road before they can make the declaration.
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission: We are not in a position to say whether or not the chicken crossed the road. There are some people who have complained that it probably wasn't a chicken at all and others saying it was being pushed or dragged against its will. We are currently considering whether to do a re-check before we can officially declare if the chicken crossed the road. We will take as long as we want to be fully certain that it was a chicken that crossed the road.
Ban Ki-Moon: Is pleased the AU has chickens that cross the road in transparency; L'ONU, l'UA SADC empereur poulets usure pas de vêtements de traverser la route.
Dalai Lama: Too the chicken - Vote Like it matters...
Desmond Tutu: Let the chickens be !
Zimbabwean: Too avoid political persecution, too earn a living, too eat, too seek medical treatment; too avoid financial persecution and an inflation rate with the most zeros in recent history...
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"We can't claim to be truly free when racism still rears its ugly head in our institutions of higher learning, in the media, in the private sector, in the boardrooms and with the xenophobic occurrences that we observed in some communities in recent weeks," Cape Town Freedom Day president Thabo Mbeki.
'No Crisis in Zim' Mbeki Scales Up Deportations
Zim Standard
Local
Saturday, 26 April 2008 21:00
“I AM dying, can I have some water, even just a drop?” cried the woman, pounding on a heavy metal door, last Friday. In vain, she tried to attract the attention of people waiting to have their luggage cleared, at the Beitbridge border post.
Desperately, she repeatedly called out for help, but before anyone
offered to assist, the truck moved away from the people she might have
expected to be sympathetic to her plight.
About 15 minutes later, another desperate woman made a similar plea as she knocked on the metal door of another grey truck that stopped abruptly at the same spot.
“Please, open the door for us!” she shouted. “We want fresh air! We are suffocating in here!” She was shouting to the driver of the truck, who was disembarking, clutching official-looking papers, evidently to be used to clear his “cargo”.
Like the first woman, she and more than 20 others were packed like
sardines in the Tata truck, labelled Polokwane. She did not get any joy. The driver of the truck would leave five minutes later.
The desperate women were among hundreds of Zimbabweans packed in
trucks transporting illegal immigrants deported from South Africa last week.
The SA government has scaled up the deportation of Zimbabweans in that
country, hardly a month after President Thabo Mbeki declared there was no crisis in Zimbabwe.
Emerging from a meeting in Harare with President Robert Mugabe two
weeks ago, a smiling Mbeki said he did not think there was a problem in Zimbabwe, referring to the failure by the authorities to officially release the results of the presidential elections.
He called for patience, saying electoral officials should be given
time to finish their work.
A visit to Beitbridge border post last week revealed that contrary to
Mbeki’s claims that all was well in Zimbabwe, his government had toughened its stance against Zimbabweans fleeing the crisis back home.
Information provided by Zimbabweans deported from across the Limpopo
suggests strongly the SA Department of Home Affairs had set up crack teams that have intensified patrols, rounding up Zimbabweans found loitering on SA city streets.
Others were picked up during raids at informal settlements where they
lived.
Those caught were not taken to the notorious Lindela detention centre
outside Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, as is normally the case. This time they were quickly loaded into trucks, to be dumped across the Limpopo.
On Independence Day, 18 April, this reporter counted 15 Tata trucks
arriving at the border, packed with Zimbabweans.
The drivers appeared to be in a hurry as they spent less than five
minutes at the border post.
They left their “cargo” at the offices of the International
Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Beitbridge.
Zimbabwe immigration officials reported the trucks had become a common feature at the border post.
“They used to deport in the past but this looks like a massive
operation,” said one official. “It’s not just the trucks, but they bring buses as well, full of Zimbabweans. There is no doubt they want Zimbabweans to return home and sort out the mess in their country.”
He said the Zimbabwean officials were confronted with scenes of
desperation each time the Tata trucks reached the Zimbabwean border.
Hoping they could meet someone they knew who could assist them, the
Zimbabweans in the trucks knocked hard on the doors of the trucks, pleading for help.
They asked for among, other things, water, food and just fresh air.
“From Polokwane (more than 100km away) this truck has not been opened. We can hardly breathe in here,” one man told this reporter.
“It’s bad in SA. They (SA police) are picking up anyone they suspect
to be Zimbabwean. They told us: go back to your country and rise against Mugabe.”
Another said: “They are quick to say: You Zimbabweans have a problem. You run to SA instead of staying in your country and dealing with Mugabe. You have to go back for the run-off (election).”
The Standard discovered it was not just Zimbabweans caught up in SA
who found the people unwelcoming.
Genuine travellers intending to cross into SA legally spent long hours in queues at the border post as they waited to have their passports stamped.
One family joined the queue at around 10AM in the morning but only
managed to cross into SA at 4PM.
They had gone to buy groceries at Musina and hoped they would be back
in Zimbabwe by lunch time.
“I have never seen anything like this,” said Johannes Magara, who was accompanied by his wife, Grace, and their two-year-old daughter, Natasha. “The SA immigration officers work as if they have instructions to delay the
entry of Zimbabweans as much as possible. Honestly, how can they serve only three people in an hour?
“We have been to SA on several shopping errands but we have never
stayed this long in a queue.”
Officials at the SA embassy could not be reached for comment. IOM
officials were also not immediately available for comment.
By Walter Marwizi - Zimbabwe Situation
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