Mugabe has said that one person can not bring down a country. Yet he is blaming sanctions for the country's downfall. The sanctions are aimed at him and not the country or it's general masses. Maybe the word "sanctions" should be renamed.

The sanctions are aimed at him and his cohorts. Their bank accounts have been frozen. He has a cheek having a petition. Obviously the people who signed it don't know what they are doing -- or it is a fraud.

The sanctions are aimed at him and his cohorts. Their bank accounts have been frozen. He has a cheek having a petition. Obviously the people who signed it don't know what they are doing -- or it is a fraud.

AMAZING - he tells the west to go to hell and that he cant stand them and yet SURPRISE SURPRISE blames them for sanctions . How do peopel actually see the reasoning in this racist , homohobic , hypocritic meglomaniac . It baffels me !!!!

Of the 2.2m people that signed I bet 2.1m is dead and the rest was beated until they signed.

@ncube - everybody with sense is well aware the sanctions are targeted at the regime leaders alone. the reason why any loans would be turned down are for all parts pretty simple - the regime cohorts are well known to take and use the money for themselves, in the current financial situation zim is not able to service the debt...thats it in a nutshell. further, western aid agencies are not allowed to distribute aid in whatever form because mugabe and co want it only for their supporters, also it is a well known fact that aid that was warehoused has found the way onto the streets and is being SOLD by mugabe's cohorts. graeme f makes a good point @ncube - anc was quite happy to have the west destroy SA economy with sanctions targeted not at the regime but the whole of SA. may i suggest your comments are driven by racist view after all what was good for SA should also be good for mugabe, not so??

Re ncube - so hy did ANC demand sanctions on SA? The biggest donors of aid to Zimbabwe are UK & USA, not refused by Mugabe on moral grounds.

How can a person with senses say sanctions are not targeted at everyone in Zim when loans are stopped, to the extent that IMF was threatening the country to take all the little it to pay the US financial institution-but the loan was never given in the end. The country is now rated as the poorest country in the world-so you say sanctions are good? The King is not affected by drought-its the servants who suffer.

the sanctions are directed at and affect only mugabe and his ohorts. the 'man in the street' is NOT affected at all. it surely must beggar the questions of who carried out the so called petition, what was the content of the petition and are all the so called signatories traceable. i aver it would be a good exercise to take a random sample and test it against the truth!