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Wednesday notes
Weather deteriorating rapidly through the day. At 5 am, it was fairly bright with some fluffy clouds about. By 8 am, the cloud had rolled in. Another 3 hours later the rain began and now the wind is picking up. Won't improve until later tomorrow.
Zimbabwe gained independence 27 years ago. As has been widely publicised, the country enjoyed some relative prosperity until recently. A crackdown on white farmers and dissidents has left the economy in ruins, with inflation now at 2,000% and unemployment at 80%. AIDS is rampant. President Robert Mugabe, aged 83, has now blamed the woes on greed by business. He is due to stand for re-election in 2008. His hatred of the former colonial power, Great Britain, is undiminished, and he has banned the BBC from his country.
More revelations have emerged about the student who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech on Monday before turning the gun on himself. A picture emerges of a depressed, lonely individual whose disturbed writings in themselves were a writing on the wall. This was picked up by tutors, but this extreme outcome was probably never anticipated.
Mugabe is posessed! He has delusions of grandeur. He himself ran his country into poverty and strife. HIs cohorts have become rich on the backs of his poor people let alone taking the land from the white farmers who helped make his country rich. The man hasn't got a brain!
ReplyDeleteHow can you give large tracts of land to people who have never been trained in its full husbandry? I felt sorry for those Zimbabweans who were allowed to take over farmland but had no idea how to run it to produce crops. Mugabe didn't have the sense he was born with. Those poor people should have had time to train up before being handed over the land, if he so decreed it. However, and more importantly if it had to be done his government should pay the white farmers a decent price with possible allowance of tenure to their own homestead and a piece of land to live on. After all they are Zimbabweans too.
Say, as an instance, we chose to throw our Asian community out of Britain, as Idi Amin did when he dictated to all in his country, this country's economy and hospitals would be affected. There are always going to be knock on effects which Mugabe hadn't the brains to foresee.
Sorry for the rant!
I am and never will be a racist by the way. In my eyes we are all equal. Jeanie