The people are really nice and honest there. Actually, Zambians were really the best (far more honest than I could hope to be in their sitautions), but we met lots of nice people in Zimbabwe. The corruption of their governments and ours really is unfair. They deserve help in ridding themselves of Mugabe. It probably would be better coming from the ANC, but how many years is this going to be left to linger?

I have to ask, how is portraying Zimbaweans in this unflatering light, by cherry picking the most inane stories in the Herald, helping to further a specific point - and further more, what point is it that you are furthering? You know that the Herald publishes these stories as space filler in craptastically crapy newspaper and that the only people who read that stuff are literate versions of your "rural idiots". So I ask again, why post this without context? I can only infer that you mean for the average slog reader to marvel at the idocy of your countrymen i.e. you mean for the average slog reader to believe that these silly ideas are held by wide swaths of Zimabweans and by extension that wide swaths of Zimbaweans are silly and stupid. For someone who only recently emerged from the simplicity of Kwekwe you completley embody the essence of a munoz or musalad and thats just sad....

We mock and then silly readers offer cheap commentary.

Yes Mugabe is horrible. Once he leaves, little will change for the rural dwellers of Zimbabwe. Empire has no interest in their future, to beleive other wise is the true idiocy.

Desperate poverty creates incredible situations where people are stripped of all their dignity and at times all they have is their horrendous myths, legends and superstitions.

America is a country of incredible wealth and yet you will find these same situations not only in the rural but in the city town folk as well. But this great writer and African man of letters, feels the need to feed the apetite of the colonializers to mock the savage developing world dweller as if this country is rich simply because people here work harder. As if examples of idiocy are not plentiful in our adopted country as well. As if Empire had nothing to do with the inequality which breeds such rural idiocy. Charles is a subject of empire just like the rural idiots he mocks, but he just happens to be educated.