Zimbabwe auf dem Weg der Besserung!

Hallo zusammen.

Kurz vor Weihnachten noch einmal eine Erinnerung daran, dass die ZANU-PF in diesem Jahr die Parlamentswahl verloren hat, dass Morgan Tsvangirai nach kreativem Auszählen die im ersten Wahlgang wohl schon errungene Präsidentschaft verweigert wird, dass auch Südafrikas neuer Präsident Mugabe an der Macht hält, und dass die SADC lieber ZANU-Vorwürfen über eine angebliche Invasion Zimbabwes aus Botswana nachgeht, als den andauernden Entführungen und Morden an MDC-Aktivisten nachzugehen.

Lavish life of Mugabe’s looter-in-chief
As starving Zimbabweans face their bleakest Christmas ever, the head of the state bank puts the last touches to his 47-bedroom palace

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5375495.ece

Fears Mount Schools May Not Re-open For 2009
http://www.thezimbabwestandard.com


Saturday, 20 December 2008 21:58

ZIMBABWE'S teachers are demanding at least US$2 200 a month before
they resume work, fuelling fears 2009 could be another wasted year for the
education sector already weighed down by an unprecedented staff exodus.

Chegutu Cholera Outbreak Worst
http://www.thezimbabwestandard.com

Saturday, 20 December 2008 21:52
RELIEF agencies were last week still struggling to contain the
devastating cholera outbreak in Chegutu, which has so far claimed at least
160 lives in less than two weeks.

Hungry Soldiers Raid Potato Farm
http://www.thezimbabwestandard.com

Saturday, 20 December 2008 21:27
HUNGRY soldiers at Pomona Barracks in Harare have resorted to stealing
potatoes from a nearby farm allegedly to complement their meagre rations,
The Standard learnt last week.

Investigations by The Standard revealed that soldiers at the Pomona
barracks near Borrowdale survived on a diet of sadza with vegetables as the
army's budget was running low.

Up To 4 500 Tortured During Farm Invasions, Says Report
http://www.thezimbabwestandard.com

Saturday, 20 December 2008 21:24
A new report on the government's chaotic land reform programme has
revealed that up to 4 500 Zimbabweans were tortured and commercial farmers
incurred up to US$1 billion in damages during the exercise.

 The report compiled after an investigation into human rights
violations and losses suffered by commercial farmers and workers since the
violent land invasions began in 2000, questions the government's rhetoric
that the programme brought social justice.

Zim's new legal boss thumbs his nose at SADC
http://www.iol.co.za/

December 21 2008 at 10:35AM

By Peta Thornycroft

Zimbabwe's new attorney-general celebrated his appointment last week with
the prosecutions of white farmers in defiance of a regional court ruling
which was supposed to protect them from eviction.

Congo re-exported ammunition to Zimbabwe-UN experts
http://africa.reuters.com

Sun 21 Dec 2008, 22:19 GMT

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 21 (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo
re-exported more than 50 tons of ammunition to Zimbabwe earlier this year,
according to a recent report by a U.N. group of experts for the Security
Council.

Mugabe unleashes wave of terror with mass abductions
Fears are mounting in Zimbabwe for the lives of more than 40 opposition officials and human rights activists who have been abducted as part of a renewed crackdown by the regime in Harare. At least two more members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change have disappeared in the past week, along with a freelance investigative reporter.
"The abductions are increasing and it now seems to be happening nationwide," Nelson Chamisa, an MDC spokesman,said yesterday.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/mugabe-unleashes-wave-of-terror-with-mass-abductions-1207395.html

Mugabe's genocide: The images of despair that reveal the full horror of Zimbabwe
His body ravaged by cholera, two-year-old Amos barely opens his eyes as a nurse in protective white plastic boots and gloves checks his temperature.
Tenderly, his mother Rachel strokes her son's head. But in her heart she must know that his chances are slender.
Her little boy is staring death in the face  -  in all likelihood, he will not survive to see Christmas.
Last Tuesday, Rachel walked five miles carrying Amos on her back to an emergency cholera clinic near Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1099467/Mugabes-genocide-The-images-despair-reveal-horror-Zimbabwe.html

South Africa's Crime
The government is enabling Robert Mugabe's destruction of neighboring
Zimbabwe, at the cost of thousands of lives.
Sunday, December 21, 2008; Page B06

SOUTH AFRICAN President Kgalema Motlanthe concedes that the situation in
Zimbabwe is "very dire." No doubt he's familiar with what the United Nations
is reporting: that more than 1,000 people have died of cholera in a
spreading epidemic, that 17,000 others are infected and that more than half
of the country's remaining population requires emergency food aid to avoid
starvation. Hospitals have closed, 80 percent of the country lacks safe
drinking water and school attendance is down to 20 percent. Inflation was
last registered at 231 million percent; as a practical matter the economy
has stopped. As U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon put it last week,
Zimbabwe "stands on the brink of economic, social and political collapse."

So is Mr. Motlanthe at last ready to use South Africa's considerable
leverage to end the nightmare in its neighbor? Will his government finally
join those of Zambia, Botswana, Kenya, the United States, Britain, France
and Canada in calling for 84-year-old strongman Robert Mugabe to step down?
Well, no. "It's really not for us," the president told reporters Wednesday.
"I mean, I don't know if the British feel qualified to impose that on the
people of Zimbabwe, but we feel that we should support and take our cue from
what they [Zimbabweans] want."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/NewsSearch?sb=-1&st=South%20Africa%27s%20Crime&

Worauf stützen sich eigentlich die Hoffnungen mancher, dass die Herrschenden Südafrikas und Namibias im eigenen Land einmal anders handeln werden, wenn sie Mugabe bei seinem Genozid an seinem eigenen Volk unterstützen?

Gruß, Michael

Yoshikawa schrieb:

Worauf stützen sich eigentlich die Hoffnungen mancher, dass die Herrschenden Südafrikas und Namibias im eigenen Land einmal anders handeln werden, wenn sie Mugabe bei seinem Genozid an seinem eigenen Volk unterstützen?

Gruß, Michael

Beinahe ist Zimbabwe in Vergessenheit geraten - vielen Dank, Michael.

Der Botschafter Südafrikas in Deutschland, Herr Sonwabo Eddie Funde, kann Dir sicherlich eine Antwort geben. Bei Bedarf ist ein Kontakt sicher leicht herzustellen. Als Ex-Eskom Board Member kann er zudem sicherlich auch etwas zur Energiekrise sagen.

Manche Afrikaner sind schlauer und lernfähiger als Du Ihnen zutraust. Dumm, dass mir jetzt ein Link fehlt 🙂

Viele Grüße,

Volker

Eine weitere Möglichkeit, Flagge zu zeigen:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/global_citizens_for_zimbabwe/?cl=160848867&v=2590

Moin und fröhliche Weihnachten zusammen.

Kaum kümmert sich die Welt um sich selbst und das Fest, unterstützt die südafrikanische Regierung das illegale Mugabe-Regime mit 300.000.000 Rand:

Concern as South Africa gives aid direct to ZANU PF
http://www.swradioafrica.com

By Tichaona Sibanda
24 December 2008

The South African government has gone against it's word and provided the
regime in Harare with farming inputs, forming part of the 300 million rand
package it promised to dispense only when a unity government was in place.
But Zimbabwe's agriculture Minister Rugare Gumbo confirmed to the state
media this week that farming inputs forming part of the aid package had
arrived in the country.

This contravenes the conditions of the aid that were outlined in September
when the plan was announced, which said the R300m in aid was conditional
upon the successful formation of a unity government between Robert Mugabe's
Zanu-PF and the two factions of the MDC.

South Africa has also failed to explain why and how inputs have been given
to the regime, when they announced back in September that they would only
provide funds through aid agencies and Non Governmental Organisations.

Responding to what it called 'confusing reports in the media' South African
government spokesperson Thabo Masebe confirmed that they were providing the
aid to Zimbabwe. He however said it would be released through new SADC
mechanisms that were announced last week and they were satisfied that it
would reach the intended recipients in a non-partisan manner. He did not
explain the Zimbabwe state media reports that said the aid was already
there.

It is well known that Mugabe uses food aid as a political tool and blocks it's
distribution to areas that voted for the MDC in the March elections. Farming
inputs are also distributed in a partisan manner, given only to ZANU PF card
carrying members.

MDC MP for Mbare in Harare, Piniel Denga, told us they 'smelt a rat' when it
was announced during last week's ZANU PF conference in Bindura that their
supporters would get a Christmas bonus of farming inputs.

'Since we knew they lacked the capacity to buy these inputs we just wondered
where the goods would come from, but now we know thanks to the state media.
The South African government can never be trusted on issues concerning ZANU
PF, they protect and look after their interests,' Denga claimed.

The legislator added; 'What the South Africans should know is that by giving
inputs like fertilizer to ZANU PF is as good as sprinkling it along the
mighty Zambezi river - just wait and see.'

Und das ist die Meinung Bischof Tutus:

Archbishop Tutu suggests using violence to remove Mugabe
http://rawstory.com

Agence France-Presse
Published: Wednesday December 24, 2008

Nobel Peace Prize laureate says he's 'ashamed' of South Africa for not
acting

LONDON (AFP) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu launched a stinging attack on South
Africa Wednesday, accusing it of failing to stand up to Zimbabwe's President
Robert Mugabe and betraying its apartheid legacy.

Tutu, the retired archbishop of Cape Town, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and
anti-apartheid campaigner, told BBC radio he was "ashamed" of his homeland.

He suggested that South Africa had surrendered the "moral high ground" which
it gained in the post-apartheid era.

Tutu also told BBC radio that violence could be used to remove Mugabe, who
should then be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

His comments came amid rising international pressure for Mugabe to quit and
an outbreak of cholera which has killed over 1,000 people, according to
UNICEF.

The top US envoy for Africa Jendayi Frazer said at the weekend that it had
lost confidence in the power-sharing pact between Mugabe and the opposition,
remarks dismissed as "stupid" by Mugabe.

"I certainly am ashamed of what they've done (South Africa) in the United
Nations," Tutu said.

"For the world to say no, we're waiting for South Africa's membership of the
security council to lapse and then we can take action, that is an awful
indictment of a country that has had this proud record of a struggle against
a vicious system in the way that we did, that we should have been the one
who for a very long time occupied the moral high ground.

"I'm afraid we have betrayed our legacy... I mean, how much more suffering
is going to make us say no, we have given Mr Mugabe enough time?"

South Africa is due to leave the UN Security Council within days after two
years in a non-permanent seat and commentators say this could remove one
major obstacle to UN action against Mugabe.

Tutu raised the prospect of using violence to remove Mugabe.

"If Mr Mugabe remains obdurate and as intransigent as he has been about the
formation of this government of unity, then he must be asked to step down,"
he said.

"If he refuses, I really do believe that we have to invoke this new doctrine
of responsibility to protect".

Asked whether that meant using force to remove Mugabe, Tutu said: "Yes, yes,
or certainly the threat of it".

"He needs to be warned and his cronies must be warned that the world is not
just going to sit by and do nothing, it's going to try and remove them and
in addition he is going to be charged before the ICC," he added.

Tutu said he hoped "against hope" that the African Union would take action,
adding that some parties "can be shamed into taking a more firm stance",
including South Africa.

Gruß, Michael

Moin zusammen.

Welch beeindruckender Wirtschaftserfolg! Und das in nur gut zehn Jahren!

Quintillion per cent inflation and a 100 trillion dollar note in Zimbabwe
As hyper-inflation in Zimbabwe soars unabated, the central bank Friday unveiled a new higher denomination bank note of Z$100 trillion. Official figures of inflation in the country are unavailable, but economists estimate it to be running into quintillion percent. The government stopped issuing the figures in July last year, when it was 231 million percent, fearing they would trigger speculation and profiteering. The central bank also issued Friday new Z$10 trillion, Z$20 trillion and Z$50 trillion bank notes to help the public grapple with hyper-inflation, the highest in the world. But inspite of the new higher denomination bank notes, the purchasing power of the money remains low. The new Z$100 trillion note can only buy 20 loaves of bread.
...

http://en.afrik.com/news12533.html

Zum Glück kann man noch im Ausland einkaufen:

Handbagged
The grotesque greed and hypocrisy of Mugabe and his wife are plain for all to see
...
Africans have long been used to their leaders' selfish materialism, their shopping sprees abroad and their inability to separate state finances from their private purse. Few, however, even including Mobutu Sese Seko, the kleptocrat of Zaire, have done so on the scale of Robert Mugabe.
…
Corruption can scarcely be more blatant than Mr Mugabe's indulgence of his wife. Before embarking on her Far East holiday, she withdrew $92,000 from the central bank in Harare. Yet there is no money available for water pumps and electricity supplies to ensure fresh water in the capital. Children die of cholera so that Mrs Mugabe can go shopping.
…

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article5542689.ece

Thrill für die europäischen Jäger; Kohle für die Großen; Fleisch, wenn überhaupt, für die Kleinen:

British kill entire elephant herd
BRITISH hunters, including a prominent Harley Street surgeon, have been paying the Zimbabwean authorities thousands of pounds each to take part in a mass elephant cull.
…
In Zimbabwe starving people have resorted to killing elephants for food, and recent reports have suggested Mu-gabe’s soldiers are being given meat from carcasses.
…

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5537002.ece

Soo, muss man mit Wahlsiegern reden:

Robert Mugabe rules out concessions
President Robert Mugabe has ruled out concessions in power-sharing talks, saying Zimbabwe's opposition has one last chance to join a national unity government.
…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/4283873/Robert-Mugabe-rules-out-concessions.html

Irgendwann muss ja auch `mal Schluss sein:

‘MDC leader to be arrested’
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s government has put in place an elaborate plan to arrest main opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai if he refuses to join the envisaged inclusive government, security officials have claimed.
…

http://www.thetimes.co.za/SpecialReports/Zimbabwe/Article.aspx?id=920869

Gruß, Michael

...so that Mrs Mugabe can go shopping

Und jetzt wissen wir auch, wo Zimbabwes First Shopper einkauft:
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,601910,00.html😵

So ich darf ihnen bitten lieber forum mitglieder:

Geht nicht mehr ins Zimbabwe! Man helft nur ein Tiran sein macht behalten. Um Vic Falls zu sehen geht lieber nach Sambia!

Grusse, Hans

Moin zusammen.

SW Radio Africa Transcript
HOT SEAT interview: Journalist Violet Gonda interviews Physicians for Human Rights CEO Frank Donaghue who says Mugabe is now a global threat.
…
And I think this is was what prompted us within two months to be in Zimbabwe and do this research and to have this report issued, both in Johannesburg and in the United Nations. What we found was absolutely startling. You know people talk about the cholera epidemic and I think the statistics of cholera speak for themselves, in most countries in war-torn countries, about 1% of people who contract cholera die. In Zimbabwe it is over 5% and in some regions in Zimbabwe it has been as high as 34, 35%. So 35% of the people that are getting cholera in some places in Zimbabwe are dying. Coincidentally they are of course in regions where the MDC is more popular than Mr Mugabe’s regime.
…
So that was the first thing and then we visited regions in rural areas. There is no public health system. We all know that, it is gone. Mr Mugabe has completely destroyed that basically because of his incredibly poor bad economic policies and the collapse of the economy. There is no water and sanitation. I mean we saw kids drinking out of the sewer. Turn on someone’s spigot for those people who do have water and see what comes out - and so you have the water collapse which is obviously part of the cholera epidemic.

http://www.swradioafrica.com/pages/hotseat200109.htm

Zimbabwe cholera threat shifts to rural areas
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic is spreading to rural areas because people with the preventable disease have quit heavily-infected urban centres for the countryside, an agency official said Wednesday.
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http://af.reuters.com/article/zimbabweNews/idAFLL5376920090121

Gruß, Michael

Unglaublich oder, warum bedruckt man Papier überhaupt noch?
http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/simbabwes-inflation-betraegt-65-mit-107-nullen-prozent;2131872

Moin zusammen.

Zanu-PF loots donated South African agriculture aid
As was predicted by Zimbabwe's main opposition, MDC, the corrupt Zanu-PF Members of Parliament have abused the South African R300 million agricultural aid after looting fertilizers, maize seed and fuel.

The eight corrupt Zanu-PF legislators, who are close allies of president Robert Mugabe, were working together with some farmers and members of the public to swindle large quantities of the ammonium nitrate, Compound D and maize seed.

The inputs were brought into the country recently but unfortunately fell in wrong hands of Zanu-PF members in influential positions.

Late last year, South Africa handed over R300 million aid to Zimbabwe to bail out Zimbabwe's crippled agriculture sector.

The MDC chided South Africa for disbursing the aid to the Zanu-PF government before the finalisation of the peace deal.

The revelations are a confirmation of how unscrupulous Zanu-PF members are abusing the South Africa's R300 million agriculture aid.

Mugabe's henchman, Brigadier General Douglas Nyikayaramba, handles the inputs that were sourced by South Africa.
...

http://www.hararetribune.com/

Vielleicht hätte der malawische Präsident im letzten Jahr doch nicht so viel Mais als Unterstützung für das Mugabe-Regime liefern sollen:

Hunger hits Malawians hard as maize price soars
When private traders projected six months ago that prices of maize would escalate because of the scarcity of the grain, government hastily dismissed the frank talk claiming it had enough stock to feed the nation even for two years.
...

http://www.nyasatimes.com/national/2487.html

Slave-labourers dig Zimbabwe's blood-diamonds
IRIN news reports from Mutare in Zimbabwe that the vast Chiadzwa diamond fields have been taken over by the military -and they now force Marange villagers to dig out the tiny diamonds at gunpoint. Dealers warn Zimbabwe is now producing blood-diamonds.
The Chiadzwa diamond diggings, some 90km southwest of Zimbabwe's diamond-boom town of Mutare, have come to resemble a military garrison, IRIN news reports. Police reportedly shot and killed as many as 50 informal diamond diggers in the two-month raid, allegedly termed "Operation No Return".

And Bulawayo diamond dealer Erich Block also warns that these slave-labour conditions under which the Chiadzwa diamonds now are produced under control of the Zimbabwean military, also means that such diamonds could be labelled as 'blood- or conflict-diamonds' and could be struck of the Kimberley Press register of diamond-exporting countries, set up to stop the trade of blood-diamonds.
…

http://www.digitaljournal.com/print/article/265726

Gruß, Michael

Moin zusammen.

Tsvangirai risks all as he does deal with Mugabe on sharing power

Zimbabwe’s Opposition took the momentous but hugely risky decision yesterday to enter a unity government with President Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) party, whose brutal and misguided policies have brought the country to the brink of ruin.
Under pressure from South Africa – but to the consternation of some Western governments – Morgan Tsvangirai won the approval of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to take a step that could conceivably mark the beginning of the end of Mr Mugabe’s 28-year-rule but could equally well hand him a much needed lifeline.
“I’m doing what’s best for the people of Zimbabwe,” Mr Tsvangirai told hundreds of jubilant supporters who had gathered outside the MDC headquarters in central Harare.
“He has walked into a trap,” a Western official countered. “Mugabe is not serious about this . . . He will honour as little as he can.”
...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5622266.ece

Robert Mugabe has whip hand in coalition of convenience
ROBERT MUGABE, the Zimbabwean president, will have the power to dismiss his arch-opponent from a government of national unity even though the two men have agreed to join forces in an effort to rescue the country’s ruined economy.
Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), who will become prime minister, could be sacked for incompetence under the terms of a deal that leaves the 84-year-old president firmly in control.
...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5627536.ece

Is morgan Tsvangi rai set to be the latest victim of a regime that kills all it touches?
HAVING WATCHED his fellow Zimbabweans being murdered, tortured, starved and condemned to death from disease by Robert Mugabe, while millions of others fled the country, Morgan Tsvangirai has taken the biggest gamble of his life and entered coalition government with the man accused of subjecting Zimbabweans to slow genocide.
"If you walk into a lion's den and meet a lion, you should not complain that you met a lion," Tendai Dumbutshena, former editor of the now-defunct Zimbabwe Times, warned Tsvangirai. He added that, once they are inside the unity government: "Mugabe will shoot Tsvangirai and the MDC from short range."
...

http://www.sundayherald.com/search/display.var.2486139.0.is_morgan_tsvangi_rai_set_to_be_the_latest_victim_of_a_regime_that_kills_all_it_touches.php

Zimbabwe abandons its currency
Zimbabweans will be allowed to conduct business in other currencies, alongside the Zimbabwe dollar, in an effort to stem the country's runaway inflation.
...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7859033.stm

Zimbabwe's starving millions face halving of rations as UN cash dries up
World Food Programme to cut core maize ration from 10kg to 5kg a month – or just 600 calories a day – for 70% of the population
...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/29/zimbabwe-starving-food-aid-cut

Zim unemployment soars to 94 percent
…
Out of the country's 12 million people, only 480,000 have formal jobs, down from 3,6 million in 2003, the report said.
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http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=552&fArticleId=4816380

Cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe world's worst in 14 years: World Health Organization
Zimbabwe's worsening cholera epidemic has killed 3,028 people out of the more than 57,000 infected and is the world's worst in 14 years, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
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http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=1230779

MDR-TB Outbreak Could Take Zimbabwe by Surprise
Zimbabwe’s public health system does not have the capacity to identify cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis ( MDR-TB ) but conditions in the country point to significant drug-resistance problems, doctors attending a recent National TB Capacity Building and Policy Dialogue Platform meeting in Harare said.
The National TB Co-ordinator, Dr Charles Sandy, said it was likely that a number of MDR-TB cases had already occurred in Zimbabwe but that they had not been identified because the only national TB reference laboratory in Bulawayo was not able to do so.
“We have cases of MDR and XDR (extensively drug-resistant) TB for sure but we have a challenge because our TB laboratory reference, which is supposed to diagnose those kinds of tests, is not able to do so,” Sandy said.
...

http://www.thezimbabwestandard.com/local/19635-mdr-tb-outbreak-could-take-zimbabwe-by-surprise.html

Mliswa urges last-minute farm invasions
HARARE – Fresh farm invasions have been witnessed in Mashonaland West province as frustrated Zanu-PF supporters try to grab pieces of land before the inception of an all inclusive government by Zanu PF and MDC in two weeks time.
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http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/?p=10703

Gruß, Michael

Hallo zusammen,

heute im Weltspiegel um 19:20 Uhr bei ARD,
Simbabwe: Hoffnung für ein krankes Land?

Gruss Dirk

Moin zusammen.

Wer den Weltspiegel-Bericht gesehen hat, wird sich beim Inhalt dieses Artikels sicherlich die dazu kontrastierenden Bilder dieser Feier vorstellen können.

Champagne, lobster and caviar: Robert Mugabe plans binge in land of hunger
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In recent days they have been out soliciting “donations” from corporate Zimbabwe and have drawn up a wish list that is scarcely credible in a land where seven million citizens survive on international food aid, 94 per cent are jobless and cholera rampages through a population debilitated by hunger.
The list includes 2,000 bottles of champagne (Moët & Chandon or ’61 Bollinger preferred); 8,000 lobsters; 100kg of prawns; 4,000 portions of caviar; 8,000 boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates; 3,000 ducks; and much else besides. A postscript adds: “No mealie meal” — the ground corn staple on which the vast majority of Zimbabweans survived until the country’s collapse rendered even that a luxury.
Those who prefer to give in cash, not kind, are invited to send “donations” of between $45,000 and $55,000 to a US dollar bank account in the name of the 21st February Movement, a youth organisation controlled by Zanu (PF) and named after the date of the President’s birthday.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5697712.ece

Und bitte niemals vergessen, dass dieses Regime von der südafrikanischen Regierung jederzeit massiv unterstützt wurde!

SA's R300m aid gift to Zim a 'waste of money'
South African taxpayers' gift of R300-million to Zimbabwe was a waste of money and some of it is being misused for the benefit of President Robert Mugabe's cronies in Zanu-PF.
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=vn20090208103918992C425413

Africans, don't blame the whites
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Colonialism cannot explain Third World poverty. Some of today's richest countries are former colonies, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Some of today's poorest countries were never colonies, such as Ethiopia, Liberia, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan. The colonialism argument is simply a cover-up for African dictators and people.
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What Africa needs is a lot of self-criticism. The fact that Africa breeds and worships figures like Mugabe, because of their own anti-white racism is disheartening. It's incredible that any white sends aid to Africa when Africans are anti-white racists.
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http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/mnsehe_20090210.html

Zimbabwe Launches Drive to Remove Last White Farmers
Zimbabwe's remaining few hundred white farmers are under intense pressure to abandon their land, crops, homes and workers on the eve of a unity government. Most white farmers were evicted from their land by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's government earlier this decade.
Zimbabwe's remaining white commercial farmers are being threatened with violent eviction or charges of trespass. Several top vegetable producers have already been evicted from their small holdings on the northern edge of Harare.
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http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-02-10-voa23.cfm
Gab`s da nicht einmal ein Urteil aus Windhoek?

Gruß, Michael

Moin zusammen.

Zunächst zum heutigen Wettgewinner :-))

Mugabe ordert 8000 Hummer für Geburtstagsparty
Der Potentat feiert, sein Volk darbt: Während Simbabwe unter Hyperinflation und Cholera leidet, plant Robert Mugabe ein rauschendes Fest zu seinem 85. Geburtstag. 2000 Flaschen Champagner sind geordert, auch 8000 Hummer bestellt.
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http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,607692,00.html

Robert Mugabe loyalists plan final eviction of white farmers as his "birthday present"
A secret plan has been hatched by by Robert Mugabe's most loyal supporters to evict the last of Zimbabwe's white farmers from their land before his 85th birthday.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/4622860/Robert-Mugabe-loyalists-plan-final-eviction-of-white-farmers-as-his-birthday-present.html

Wenn man ihn nicht als Minister will, dann nimmt man ihn halt fest:

Police in Zimbabwe charge MDC minister with terrorism
Roy Bennett, Zimbabwe's deputy agriculture minister and one of the opposition politicians in the country's new unity government, has been charged with planning terrorism and insurgency.
The development throws into stark relief the lack of mutual trust inside the new goverment, which was supposed to lead Zimbabwe out of a political and economic crisis after long negotiations between President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and its bitter opponents, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5738751.ece

Robert Mugabe henchmen bent on sabotaging fragile partnership
Zimbabwe’s fledgeling power-sharing Government staggered into its fifth day yesterday as fears grew that a shadowy cabal of President Mugabe’s top security bosses are edging towards a military coup.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5741829.ece

Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe 'buys £4m apartment in Hong Kong'
The Zimbabwean leader President Robert Mugabe has bought a £4 million apartment in Hong Kong, it has been reported.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/4631148/Zimbabwe-Robert-Mugabe-buys-4m-apartment-in-Hong-Kong.html

Gruß, Michael

Eine Ergänzung:

Ein schwarzer Freitag: Roy Bennett verschleppt – AZ dabei

http://www.az.com.na/afrika/ein-schwarzer-freitag-roy-bennett-verschleppt-az-dabei.80674.php

Offenbar hat die Regierungsbeteiligung der MDC derzeit leider keinerlei Einfluß auf das Handeln der Mugabegünstlinge...:

HARARE – At least 40 farms owned by the few remaining white farmers in Zimbabwe have been invaded by top government and party officials since the opposition MDC agreed to enter into an inclusive government with President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party, a farmers union has said.

“There must be at least 40 farms that have been invaded in the past few days,” Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) president Trevor Gifford told ZimOnline this week.

Der ganze Artikel ist zu lesen auf: http://www.zimonline.co.za/Article.aspx?ArticleId=4280

Moin zusammen.

Aber die politische Klasse ist doch nun in Afrika wirklich wichtiger als die Bevölkerung; die ist doch vom Westen zu füttern:

Zimbabwe Cabinet costs 'could feed half country'
Zimbabwe's new unity 46-member Cabinet will cost $2 million a month in salaries and allowances, a figure enough to feed about half of the starving population.
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http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/news/zimbabwe-cabinet-costs-could-feed-half-country-19035840.html?utm_source=VenueSiteStats&utm_medium=internal&utm_campaign=VenueSiteStats

Cholera infection exceeds 80 000 – WHO

http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18855&Itemid=103

Nachdem die von Südafrika gewährten 300.000.000 Rand wohl dazu benutzt wurden, ZANU-Großkopfete und, schlimmer, wenn es stimmt, MDC-Funktionäre zu kaufen, muss, angesichts der völlig unverständlichen Zurückhaltung Europas und der USA, jemand anders anfangen, wieder Geld nach Zimbabwe zu pumpen:

Motlanthe appeals to SADC for aid
JOHANNESBURG – South African President, Kgalema Motlanthe, has invited the regional Southern African Development Community (SADC) bloc to offer financial aid to Zimbabwe, which is currently reeling under a decade-long economic crisis.Zimbabwe also faces a serious humanitarian crisis.
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http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/?p=12120

Da hat der designierte Vize-Minister doch wenigstens Gesellschaft, denn Besuch darf er nur einmal in der Woche bekommen:

Bennett shares cell with dead man
Cape Town (AP) – The body of a detainee who died in prison on Thursday while sharing a cell with MDC treasurer Roy Bennett was still in the cell on Friday.
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http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/?p=12080

Statt ihre Staatsangehörigen zu unterstützen, hilft die südafrikanische Regierung Mugabe, sie zu enteignen:

SA government ‘conniving’ with Mugabe to remove white farmers
Chiredzi(ZimEye) Top South African government officials might be working with ZANU PF to unlawfully remove white farmers off their productive farmland, the ZimEye has learnt.
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As a South African national, Henning has to his side the protection of the South African government which help he has now sought but none has yet come. In a letter to a Mr Simmins, Henning pours out his heart crying for help the second time in a week sounding his concerns.
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http://www.zimeye.org/?p=2307

Und die Regierung kann man immer noch vergrößern:

Outrage Over 71 Ministers
THE government is still battling to accommodate the 61 new ministers and deputy ministers amid revelations the decision to inflate the number of ministers of state has caused friction in the two Movement for Democratic Change formations.
Mavambo, an opposition group yesterday launched a scathing attack on the bloated government saying it reflected “abundantly that this GNU was all about convenience for the politicians and not about delivery of service to the people”.
President Robert Mugabe last week swore in five ministers of state and 19 deputy ministers bringing the number of ministers, and deputy ministers to 61.
When the 10 governors are sworn in at a date to be announced, this would bring the size of the government to 71 members.
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http://www.thezimbabwestandard.com/local/19803-outrage-over-71-ministers.html

Gruß, Michael

auch um einmal wieder in die Ebene der Trivialität hinabzugleiten:
Es gibt wieder ausreichend Benzin in Victoria Falls. Preis 1 US$.

Das Zahlungssystem ist zur Zeit fast komplett auf US$ und Südafrikanische Rand umgestellt.

Mit sonnigen Grüßen aus Windhoek
Carsten Möhle

Moin zusammen,

zwar ein uralter Thread hier, aber dieses passt aktuell zum Thema:
"In Simbabwe hat die Regierung angedeutet, dass vertriebene weiße Farmer ihr Land wieder zurückerhalten könnten. Das meldet das Internet-Portal News24 unter Berufung auf den Telegraph. Das Ministerium für Landfragen habe Führer in den Provinzen um Namen weißer Farmer gebeten, die sie zurückkehren lassen wollten. Außerdem sollen Neufarmer für das übernommene Land laut Bericht eine Abgabe zahlen. Der Staat wolle mit den Geldern weiße Farmer entschädigen." (Quelle: Hitradio Namibia)

Viele Grüße aus Windhoek
Christian