Embattled Zimbabwe Hungry and Broke, Says Central Bank Head •

[azrom]

Murdering, raping white farmers and stealing their land didn’t work out well for them




HARARE, Zimbabwe: Dozens of people were arrested Wednesday as pro-democracy activists defied a police ban on demonstrations and took to the streets to protest growing economic hardship and repression in Zimbabwe.

The National Constitutional Assembly said many of those arrested were assaulted. It vowed to continue with the demonstrations.

“We believe that demonstrating for a new constitution is a genuine cause that cannot be blocked by a corrupt police force whose mandate is merely that of protecting a failed regime,” the movement said in a statement.

The demonstration coincided with a bleak new warning by the head of the Zimbabwe state central bank that the nation is broke and using foreign currency needed for fuel and spare parts on food.

Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono told a panel of lawmakers that many black farmers, including politicians, who resettled on former white-owned farms, were failing to produce food. Zimbabwe was once the region’s breadbasket.

“There are some people who have become professional land occupiers, vandalizing equipment and moving from one farm to another,” Gono told a parliamentary committee on Home Affairs, according to the daily Herald, a government mouthpiece.

He said his priority was to allocate hard currency for imports of corn, the staple, to avert a looming food crisis. Currency was diverted from almost every government department to buy food, he conceded.

Under President Robert Mugabe’s land reform program, at least 5,000 white-owned farms have been seized with virtually no compensation since 2000. Many are derelict.

Mugabe was on state visit to longtime ally Namibia, where hundreds of people took to the streets with signs that read “Go Mugabe Go” and “Go Home Dictator.”

“President Mugabe is a dictator who is guilty of several human rights abuses and to a certain extent war crimes,” said Phil Ya Nangoloh, the executive director of the National Society for Human Rights. “He is an international pariah. He is not welcome in Namibia.”

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Tobacco exports, tourism and mining were the nation’s main hard currency earners before the land seizures. Tobacco production this year is forecast at one-fifth of the 1999 level and food output is at one-third.

Official inflation is nearly 1,600 percent, the highest in the world. Zimbabwe is facing acute shortages of food, gasoline, medicine and other essential imports. Power and water outages occur most days.

In the past month alone, prices of many household supplies have doubled and the International Monetary Fund has forecast official inflation at 4,000 percent this year.

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[fjack]

Is this really a surprise? Wherever blacks are mayhem follows. They are poor creatures that evolution has left behind. Hopefully aids will kill them all.

[Hail Columbia]

I hope that all of the kaffirs in Rhodesia starve to death.  Only then should the whites return.

[cjd]

Can anyone think of one place where whites have been forced out of power and things have actually became better for blacks there? I can't.

[Fruit of thy loins]

Is this really a surprise? Wherever blacks are mayhem follows. They are poor creatures that evolution has left behind. Hopefully aids will kill them all.

I read somewhere that AIDS in Africa is grossly over-estimated because the [censored] bureaucrats get paid extra money from the West if they report higher incidents of disease, malnutrition, AIDS prevalency etc.

The AIDS thing might turn out to be the REAL hoax of the 20th century.

Meanwhile two billion [censored] are set to flood the world by 2050.

[ChaimBenMordechai]

Can anyone think of one place where whites have been forced out of power and things have actually became better for blacks there? I can't.

Schvartzes had better health care under apartheid in Rhodesia and South Africa...but they'd rather forget all about that.

Shame that self-hating Jews in the US had to try and interfere in those two countries affairs. I'm still ashamed I was stupidly one of them...

[Hail Columbia]

Schvartzes had better health care under apartheid in Rhodesia and South Africa...but they'd rather forget all about that.

The Baragwanath hospital was a blacks-only hospital in Soweto.  Not only was it the largest hospital in the world, it was also one of the best.  Now, it's a rotted shell of its former self.  Here's also Coontact #299:

Since the end of the evil that was apartheid, things have just gone downhill here. I would just like to mention here that in the 'old days' the boons were far better off. Hospitals for them were huge and fully stocked.

The Baragwanath hospital here in Johannesburg is the biggest hospital in the Southern Hemisphere. Used to have the top surgeons and doctors. In fact doctors from all over the world used to go there for trauma experience, as the damage one kaffir can do to another is found in copious quantities here. This hospital built exclusively for the darkies by the previous "evil" government.

So evil, they built the wogs some of the best hospitals and schools in the world. Where are they now?

"Bara.." is a ghost of its former self. Everything has been stolen. From sheets to x-ray machines, there is [censored] all left!!

Here a kaffir will steal anything that is not nailed down. And if it is, will steal a hammer, remove the nails and then steal it.

[Wayne Jude]

Sad, but true....