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13-09-2007, 11:27 PM
I saw this before on newsnight I felt sick.
By Sue Lloyd-Roberts
World Affairs Correspondent, BBC News
Video Link here
Inside Mugabe's Zimbabwe
By Sue Lloyd-Roberts (http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/uk/video/119000/bb/119137_16x9_bb.asx)
Devaluation is ‘too little, too late’ to save Zimbabwe
Jan Raath in Harare
Zimbabwe devalued its currency by 1,200 per cent yesterday in a desperate attempt to bring the world’s highest rate of inflation under control and save the shattered economy.
But economists dismissed the measure as too little too late. They blamed President Mugabe’s policy of forcing businesses to slash prices and freeze wages for bringing the economy to its knees. “What Government devalues by 1,200 per cent?” asked Rob Davies, a Zimbabwean economist. “It’s an amazing admission by the Government that it has done everything wrong.”
The black market exchange rate surged ahead to eight times the new official rate of Z$30,000 to the dollar. “It’s too little, too late,” Mr Davies said. “It is irrelevant. It should have gone to 100,000 or 150,000, or be scrapped. But this is just going to encourage the black market and it will have no impact on reducing inflation.”
Black market traders agreed that unofficial exchange rates would soar even higher. “The black market rate is going to run wild tomorrow,” said an illegal currency dealer. “By Monday it will be at 600,000 to the US [dollar].”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2403119.ece
Zimbabwe's food crisis deepens as leading bakery forced to shut
Cris Chinaka and Nelson Banya in Harare
Thursday September 6, 2007
The Guardian
Zimbabwe's main bakery said yesterday that bread shortages would worsen after closing one of its biggest outlets due to a lack of wheat, deepening a food crisis which a UN agency said was "acutely serious".
The closure followed the government's recent admission that it could not afford to pay for wheat from Mozambique.
Amid an economic crisis with runaway inflation and chronic food and fuel shortages, Robert Mugabe's government had planned to buy 36,000 tonnes of wheat from its neighbour to ease the bread shortage.
Lobels Bread, the country's biggest bread producer, has only two days' supply of wheat and has been forced to cut daily production to 40,000 loaves from 200,000 loaves in May, Lemmy Chikomo, the firm's operations director, told state media.
Mr Chikomo said that Lobels had shut its bakery in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second biggest city, on August 25 and had sent home hundreds of workers at its main factory in the capital, Harare.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,,2162977,00.html
The Times
September 6, 2007
Violence looms as Zimbabwe runs out of food — except for the elite
Jan Raath in Harare
The OK supermarket in Mbare township is so empty that your voice echoes off the high warehouse roof.
On row after row of white shelving, wiped clean each day, sit a dozen cabbages. The bakery has ten plain scones. That is all the food there is in the largest supermarket serving tens of thousands of people in the oldest, and teeming, township in Harare.
One night last week, Rosa, a church volunteer, scoured Mbare for supplies to make the daily ration of maizemeal, the national staple, and some green vegetables, to be cooked without vegetable oil and often without salt. She found two loaves of bread.
“How do I feed the 14 people in my house with two loaves of bread?” Rosa asked. “Sometimes there is nothing and you go to bed with no dinner. We are living like orphans.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2395588.ece
Bob Marley : Zimbabwe
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xne-hP9-PvM
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny,
And in this judgement there is no partiality.
So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle,
'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble.
Brother, you're right, you're right,
You're right, you're right, you're so right!
We gon' fight (we gon' fight), we'll have to fight (we gon' fight),
We gonna fight (we gon' fight), fight for our rights!
Natty Dread it in-a (Zimbabwe);
Set it up in (Zimbabwe);
Mash it up-a in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate (Zimbabwe), yeah.
No more internal power struggle;
We come together to overcome the little trouble.
Soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionary,
'Cause I don't want my people to be contrary.
And, brother, you're right, you're right,
You're right, you're right, you're so right!
We'll 'ave to fight (we gon' fight), we gonna fight (we gon' fight)
We'll 'ave to fight (we gon' fight), fighting for our rights!
Mash it up in-a (Zimbabwe);
Natty trash it in-a (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
I'n'I a-liberate Zimbabwe.
(Brother, you're right,) you're right,
You're right, you're right, you're so right!
We gon' fight (we gon' fight), we'll 'ave to fight (we gon' fight),
We gonna fight (we gon' fight), fighting for our rights!
To divide and rule could only tear us apart;
In everyman chest, mm - there beats a heart.
So soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionaries;
And I don't want my people to be tricked by mercenaries.
Brother, you're right, you're right,
You're right, you're right, you're so right!
We'll 'ave to fight (we gon' fight), we gonna fight (we gon' fight),
We'll 'ave to fight (we gon' fight), fighting for our rights!
Natty trash it in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Mash it up in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Set it up in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Natty dub it in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe).
Set it up in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Every man got a right to decide his own destiny.
http://www.lyriczz.com/lyriczz.php?songid=5465
By Sue Lloyd-Roberts
World Affairs Correspondent, BBC News
Video Link here
Inside Mugabe's Zimbabwe
By Sue Lloyd-Roberts (http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/uk/video/119000/bb/119137_16x9_bb.asx)
Devaluation is ‘too little, too late’ to save Zimbabwe
Jan Raath in Harare
Zimbabwe devalued its currency by 1,200 per cent yesterday in a desperate attempt to bring the world’s highest rate of inflation under control and save the shattered economy.
But economists dismissed the measure as too little too late. They blamed President Mugabe’s policy of forcing businesses to slash prices and freeze wages for bringing the economy to its knees. “What Government devalues by 1,200 per cent?” asked Rob Davies, a Zimbabwean economist. “It’s an amazing admission by the Government that it has done everything wrong.”
The black market exchange rate surged ahead to eight times the new official rate of Z$30,000 to the dollar. “It’s too little, too late,” Mr Davies said. “It is irrelevant. It should have gone to 100,000 or 150,000, or be scrapped. But this is just going to encourage the black market and it will have no impact on reducing inflation.”
Black market traders agreed that unofficial exchange rates would soar even higher. “The black market rate is going to run wild tomorrow,” said an illegal currency dealer. “By Monday it will be at 600,000 to the US [dollar].”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2403119.ece
Zimbabwe's food crisis deepens as leading bakery forced to shut
Cris Chinaka and Nelson Banya in Harare
Thursday September 6, 2007
The Guardian
Zimbabwe's main bakery said yesterday that bread shortages would worsen after closing one of its biggest outlets due to a lack of wheat, deepening a food crisis which a UN agency said was "acutely serious".
The closure followed the government's recent admission that it could not afford to pay for wheat from Mozambique.
Amid an economic crisis with runaway inflation and chronic food and fuel shortages, Robert Mugabe's government had planned to buy 36,000 tonnes of wheat from its neighbour to ease the bread shortage.
Lobels Bread, the country's biggest bread producer, has only two days' supply of wheat and has been forced to cut daily production to 40,000 loaves from 200,000 loaves in May, Lemmy Chikomo, the firm's operations director, told state media.
Mr Chikomo said that Lobels had shut its bakery in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second biggest city, on August 25 and had sent home hundreds of workers at its main factory in the capital, Harare.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,,2162977,00.html
The Times
September 6, 2007
Violence looms as Zimbabwe runs out of food — except for the elite
Jan Raath in Harare
The OK supermarket in Mbare township is so empty that your voice echoes off the high warehouse roof.
On row after row of white shelving, wiped clean each day, sit a dozen cabbages. The bakery has ten plain scones. That is all the food there is in the largest supermarket serving tens of thousands of people in the oldest, and teeming, township in Harare.
One night last week, Rosa, a church volunteer, scoured Mbare for supplies to make the daily ration of maizemeal, the national staple, and some green vegetables, to be cooked without vegetable oil and often without salt. She found two loaves of bread.
“How do I feed the 14 people in my house with two loaves of bread?” Rosa asked. “Sometimes there is nothing and you go to bed with no dinner. We are living like orphans.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2395588.ece
Bob Marley : Zimbabwe
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xne-hP9-PvM
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny,
And in this judgement there is no partiality.
So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle,
'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble.
Brother, you're right, you're right,
You're right, you're right, you're so right!
We gon' fight (we gon' fight), we'll have to fight (we gon' fight),
We gonna fight (we gon' fight), fight for our rights!
Natty Dread it in-a (Zimbabwe);
Set it up in (Zimbabwe);
Mash it up-a in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate (Zimbabwe), yeah.
No more internal power struggle;
We come together to overcome the little trouble.
Soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionary,
'Cause I don't want my people to be contrary.
And, brother, you're right, you're right,
You're right, you're right, you're so right!
We'll 'ave to fight (we gon' fight), we gonna fight (we gon' fight)
We'll 'ave to fight (we gon' fight), fighting for our rights!
Mash it up in-a (Zimbabwe);
Natty trash it in-a (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
I'n'I a-liberate Zimbabwe.
(Brother, you're right,) you're right,
You're right, you're right, you're so right!
We gon' fight (we gon' fight), we'll 'ave to fight (we gon' fight),
We gonna fight (we gon' fight), fighting for our rights!
To divide and rule could only tear us apart;
In everyman chest, mm - there beats a heart.
So soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionaries;
And I don't want my people to be tricked by mercenaries.
Brother, you're right, you're right,
You're right, you're right, you're so right!
We'll 'ave to fight (we gon' fight), we gonna fight (we gon' fight),
We'll 'ave to fight (we gon' fight), fighting for our rights!
Natty trash it in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Mash it up in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Set it up in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Natty dub it in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe).
Set it up in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Every man got a right to decide his own destiny.
http://www.lyriczz.com/lyriczz.php?songid=5465