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2009-02-11 Africa Subsaharan
The true horror of everyday life in Zimbabwe
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Posted by Steve White 2009-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10326 views ]  Top

#1 Okay-y-y, so we're clearly NOT talking about MUGABE's = NOKOR's KIMMIE'S PERSONAL, EXPENSIVE, LUXURY FOOD DIET.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-02-11 01:32||   2009-02-11 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 But it's all OK, 'cause Bob has lobsters for his birthday party.
Posted by Spot">Spot  2009-02-11 08:06||   2009-02-11 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Let them drink '61 Bollinger.

/Robert "Antoinette" Mugabe
Posted by ed 2009-02-11 08:45||   2009-02-11 08:45|| Front Page Top

#4 What's so great about having a black president? Zimbabwe's had one for years.
Posted by AlanC 2009-02-11 10:01||   2009-02-11 10:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Zimbabwe will always have one. The feckless West has seen to that.
Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-11 10:10||   2009-02-11 10:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Dammit Alan, I'd forgotten that, what a wonderful thing to taunt "Super Zero' about.

Serious question , can anyone name a SUCCESSFUL Black led country?
Posted by Rednek Jim">Rednek Jim  2009-02-11 11:07||   2009-02-11 11:07|| Front Page Top

#7 AU needs to fix this with extreme judicial prejudice - immediately.

I do not care even to have Mugabe alive any longer.
Posted by newc">newc  2009-02-11 12:48||   2009-02-11 12:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Botswana. Even Kenya, compared to, for instance, Libya.
Posted by Fred 2009-02-11 13:20||   2009-02-11 13:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Botswana by the standards of Sub-Saharan Africa is a roaring success. Per capita GDP is $17,000 (ppp) or $7,000 (nominal). About the same as Brazil.
Posted by phil_b 2009-02-11 16:54||   2009-02-11 16:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Thanks Phil, I wondered.
Posted by Rednek Jim">Rednek Jim  2009-02-11 17:16||   2009-02-11 17:16|| Front Page Top

#11 > Botswana ... is a roaring success

The next question is WHY?
Posted by Bright Pebbles the flatulent 2009-02-11 17:54||   2009-02-11 17:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Not all roses. Botswana still struggles to seal its border from thousands of Zimbabweans who flee economic collapse and political persecution; Namibia has long supported, and in 2004 Zimbabwe dropped objections to, plans between Botswana and Zambia to build a bridge over the Zambezi River at Kazungula crossing, thereby de facto recognizing the short, but not clearly delimited, Botswana-Zambia boundary

More at CIA Fact Book HERE.
Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-11 18:02||   2009-02-11 18:02|| Front Page Top

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