Aylesbury LIFE because Learning Is For Everyone

Just a brief note this week. I have been writing up curriculum plans for school and with a new course starting across five school years that is not a small thing.

I am mindful, however, of the plight of people in Zimbabwe where nothing happens unless you have US dollars with which to make it happen; thinking food, accommodation, health bills that sort of thing. Just imagine your elderly relative has a leg with gangrene, there is no place in the hospital until you have paid for everything from the bed linen onwards. Just imagine, the queues at the border are to go and buy food using overseas relatives' dollars and then bring it back to feed all the families that are dependent on you. Just imagine, the supermarkets on the other side of the border; they only sell catering size packs. Nobody buys anything else. Read more »

The Zimbabwean Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is Not about Power But Democracy. I found this clear and credible assertion in the MDC's statement on the Africa Union summit resolution on Zimbabwe -- the one that seems to have let down the people of Zimbabwe. The resolution that seems to lack resolve just as President Mbeki's velvet glove seems to lack the iron fist. Read more »

You know sometimes I feel a bit silly writing to FIFA President Joseph Blatter and Downing Street merely because somebody somewhere lost the plot on stepping down from power gracefully.

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Open Letter to FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter

Joseph S. Blatter
FIFA-Strasse 20,
P.O. Box 8044 Zurich, Switzerland

Dear Joseph,

It is clear from members of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in Zimbabwe that Mugabe's ZANU-PF have been gearing up for war since they lost the election at the end of March. Read more »