Comments on: World Economic Forum: High Points at HippoCon http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/06/14/world-economic-forum-high-points-at-hippocon/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: But, Where Were the Hippos!? | White African http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/06/14/world-economic-forum-high-points-at-hippocon/comment-page-1/#comment-383863 But, Where Were the Hippos!? | White African Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:45:17 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1509#comment-383863 [...] Ethan takes it a step further, where he poses that the World Economic Forum could be labeled Hippocon, while TED was where the Cheetah generation could be found. [...] [...] Ethan takes it a step further, where he poses that the World Economic Forum could be labeled Hippocon, while TED was where the Cheetah generation could be found. [...]

]]> By: Lola http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/06/14/world-economic-forum-high-points-at-hippocon/comment-page-1/#comment-362928 Lola Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:28:33 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1509#comment-362928 Very interesting to hear the views on Zimbabwe which came out of the BBC meeting. I am not a Zimbabwean, but it would make sense to me that this is the case. I know lots of Zimbabweans living in South Africa and also in England who only left the country because they had to, but who have extremely strong emotional ties to the country and would go back in a heartbeat if they could. Many of them are those who, of course, were able to get out because they had the education and skills, money etc to go elsewhere. So essentially there is a reserve of people waiting for the Mugabe situation to end so they can go back, if not forever but to do business for example, to Zimbabwe...which is a very positive thing if you think about it. The only issue is how long Mugabe will continue to remain in power, because obviously the longer he is there the worse things become in the country and the harder it is for them to find stability again. Maybe another positive thing is that these troubles are only relatively recent, so it's not as if they have had 50 years of financial and political difficulties of this kind which would make it much harder to turn the country around, post-Mugabe. Very interesting to hear the views on Zimbabwe which came out of the BBC meeting.

I am not a Zimbabwean, but it would make sense to me that this is the case. I know lots of Zimbabweans living in South Africa and also in England who only left the country because they had to, but who have extremely strong emotional ties to the country and would go back in a heartbeat if they could.

Many of them are those who, of course, were able to get out because they had the education and skills, money etc to go elsewhere. So essentially there is a reserve of people waiting for the Mugabe situation to end so they can go back, if not forever but to do business for example, to Zimbabwe…which is a very positive thing if you think about it.

The only issue is how long Mugabe will continue to remain in power, because obviously the longer he is there the worse things become in the country and the harder it is for them to find stability again. Maybe another positive thing is that these troubles are only relatively recent, so it’s not as if they have had 50 years of financial and political difficulties of this kind which would make it much harder to turn the country around, post-Mugabe.

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