What is Zimbabwe's Future?

Robert Mugabe is in my opinion on his way out and it is only a matter of time. His soldiers have complained because of not being paid. There was a riot in November because of a “mix up” with their pay and soldiers have gone on a rampage in Harare protesting the lack of pay. Now with food being scarce and no money they are being fed elephant meat. The soldiers are welcoming the meat as a change from the sadza they are used to being given. Sadza is a type of porridge made from maize.

                                                                            

This following the economic collapse of the government, where Zim dollars are worth literally nothing. Cows are being sold for less than half there worth for a couple of bags of maize. Cholera is rampant among the African provinces with over 1,000 deaths reported and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

                                                                          

This once proud country was the jewel in Africa’s crown able to feed it’s hungry, heal it’s sick and educate it’s people is now in collapse. Fresh water is nowhere to be found. People are drinking dirty water even with the risk of getting Cholera because they are thirsty and are trying to quench their thirst. Manholes are belching filthy water from broken water pipes; sewage flows through the streets and drugs to treat this disease have been used up. 9 out of 10 provinces have reported cholera cases, and 18,000 cases have been reported so far. WHO is warning infection could triple before it is over.

                                                                         



The international community is raising the impact of the disease to try to leverage support from Zimbabwe’s neighbors who have been mute to the problems. Robert Mugabe claims cholera is no more and that the western states and Britain are using this to force him to step down, and as a pretext to launch military invasions from Zimbabwe’s former colonial masters.

                                                                                

With the rains coming the fear that the cholera will spread rapidly is very real. The meager supplies coming in really amount to putting a band-aid on a festering ulcer.
Here is a site I hope you take the time to visit. They are doing all they can for the victims of Zimbabwe and they desperately need your help. They are called Tearfund. Please visit and see if there is something you can do.

Death By Cholera. Really?

I have not updated this site because of a war going on in my head. A war that, on the one hand feel I we should do anything to help the poor of Zimbabwe and on the other hand rage at the injustice of a politically crazed despot, who cares more about how many people are in his cabinet than trying to repair the country he is fighting for.
Robert Mugabe, president of Africa rigged the voting to have himself elected and has since pushed this once proud nation into a death trap with inflation the highest in the world at over 10000%. Cholera is running rampant and refugees are pushing into the borders of other cities carrying the deadly disease with them. Sewers are broken all over the cities and fresh water is harder and harder to find. Garbage is not being picked up and street vendors sell their wares amidst the rotting sewage in the streets.

The US and other nations are calling for Mugabe to step down. Amid the grumbling of the outside world, human activists calling for peace in Zimbabwe were arrested including a two-year-old child. There are reports of torture being used against the leader, Jestina Mukoko and nine others to force a confession out of them. She was taken from a health clinic where she was treated for injuries reportedly from her torture, directly to court where she and others may face the death penalty. She was ordered released, but was has not been, instead now being held in an undisclosed location.

Zimbabwe's people are suffering from Mugabe's appalling economic mismanagement, corruption and brutal repression.  How do we as civilized people continue to pour money, food and medical supplies into a country with a violent leader who cares not for all Africans but only a select few? Those who do not agree with his views are subsequently beaten, raped and killed with no thought of it at all. Do we keep pouring sand down a rat hole, as this powerful despot rules the country with fists of iron?