Tuesday 30 May, 2006
Dragon and the ink
These news would be hilarious if it wasn't such staggeringly bad news for millions of Zimbabweans.
"Reserve Bank officials told IRIN that plans to print about Zim$60 trillion (about US$592.9 million) were briefly delayed after the government failed to secure foreign currency to buy ink and special paper for printing money.
Inflation has shot to 1,042 percent and is still climbing as the economic meltdown continues, putting Zimbabwe's rapidly dwindling working class in an ever more precarious position."
When your country is too poor to print money the game is up. Resign, Mugabe!
Posted by Dragon at 30 May 23:57, 2006It seems president Mugabe´s "Operation Murambatsvina",which means "restoring oder", aims at something like destroying farms and villages of poor people in certain rural areas of Zimbabwe. Amnesty International has succeeded in taking satellite photos of for instance Porta Farm 20 kilometres outside Harara,with 850 houses and schools destroyed, fields laid waste, i.e. a whole living community completely devastated, and this seems to be just one among many. In 1980 average life-time in Zimbabwe was 54 years, today it is 34. Brutal and horrifying.
You can't add any more comments, but if you wish you can email the author.