It’s disappointing how little media coverage there is in Australia these days of the ongoing chaos in Zimbabwe.
Nothing much has changed in the past couple of years, except we hear and read less about it.
I monitor various Internet news services and would like to mention an excellent web site called Zimbabwe Situation. It reproduces news items from various sources, including the farmer’s group Justice for Agriculture.
On another web site I found this pointed joke:
Robert Mugabe and his chauffeur were out driving in the country and accidentally hit and killed a pig that had wandered out on a country road. Mugabe told the chauffeur to drive up to the farm and apologise to the farmer.
They drove up to the farm, the chauffeur got out and knocked on the front door and was let in. He was in there for what seemed like hours. When the chauffeur came out, Mugabe was confused and asked his driver why he had been in there so long.
“Well, first the farmer shook my hand, then he offered me a beer, then his wife brought me some cookies, and his daughter showered me with kisses,” explained the driver.
“What did you tell the farmer?” Mugabe asked.
The chauffeur replied: “I told him I was Robert Mugabe’s driver and I’d just killed the pig.”
Seriously though, Zimbabwe is a basket case thanks to Mugabe’s destructive policies, which effectively amount to ethnic cleansing.
I read recently that Zimbabwe has had to import fuel from Zambia. This would be like Australia importing fuel from New Guinea. Zimbabwe used to be one of the richest and happiest countries in Africa. The current situation is an absolute tragedy.
