The results of Mugabe the kleptocrat's "land redistribution", as well as his other brilliant actions:

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This idea has been doing the rounds recently in Zimbabwe:

The price of a roll of 1 ply toilet paper now costs ZIM$ 1000.
There are approximately 72 sections on the average roll, so it's cheaper to take your $1000, change it into $10s, wipe your arse on 72 of them and get $280 change. One of the few places on earth where you can get simultaneous physical, emotional and fiscal benefit.

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Yes things are spinning totally out of control over there now.I watched a program regarding this country last night .The anarchy that seems to be happening there is a sad fact.The inflation rate is getting to a stage that there are jokes about it.If you are going to the shop to buy food you wheel your cash to the store in a barrow...........the chance that someone would steal your cash is remote,the chance that someone might grab your barrow and empty the cash from it and flee with the barrow is great.

I watched that last night, too, Roos. Quite an eye opener and one can't help but be cynical about the world when nothing is being done.

In this program it showed a white farming family being driven from their land and the black labourers working the farm being given a small parcel of land to farm for themselves. It appeared to be virgin land and while the men were getting it 'livable' they were arrested for holding a terrorist camp, taken away and tortured. I can almost understand that the white families would be targets but when the black families are targetted ... well, i just don't understand.

Eventually something will be done, whether internally or externally but the country does have a bright future and when things get rolling again it will be an exciting place to be.

It won't happen overnight - but it will happen.

Pity there is no oil in Zimbabwe.. Dubya would be there to 'help' if there was.

Seriously though, the European partitioning of Africa between France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and (attention Coolupway) Belgium, was the worst thing that ever happened to a continent. Just imagine the reverse scenario- Bantus claiming Paris and dividing it by tribal right, Kalahari Bushmen in charge of the Amsterdam diamond trade- after all , they did discover the 'pipelines' in Namibia and the original Zimbabwe centuries before Rhodes was born.

A lot of the unrest in Africa is very justified. I do not excuse it, or even understand it properly, but sometimes sheer frustration reigns.

I doubt if this is the same Mugabe that ruled Zimbabwe about 6 -8 years ago (approx around the time when his first wife Sally died).

Of course, he always complained that Western powers were out to destabilise African countries (with the help of a certain Organisation called IMF). Well, he was just one of the leaders then.

Somehow this transition seems to have come about after the failed talks with Tony Blair (the latter has been much abused by Mugabe)

It is strange that he is now behaving like the last 'ruler' of ['Rhode'asia - an Agent Smith.

Mugabe has reached that stage in his life where he isn't concerned about blacks or whites.
The one Ring has corrupted him.....