MWEB Forums: Re: Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe

Greetings, I'm very new to any 'chat' site so please forgive my ignorance.
I spent many years in the Rhodesia Prison Service and looking after Bob was part of my many portfolio's. I found him at the time to be well educated and very 'normal' and well to do person, if I may be allowed to use such phrases. Our biggest fear at that time was of course Joshua Nkomo and none of us really gave Bob a second glance as far as future leadership was concerned. Big mistake hey!
However, none of us really realised that the British Government of the day would 'ensure' that Bob would win the 1980 general elections, an act of theft that he copied in the last Zim elections. Great teachers the Pom's are!
My family and I have lost much due to baby Hitler's dictatorship but after returning from Harare this last week, I must honestly state that whilst the country was green and clean, the negative effects of Bob's land reform policy were becoming clearly visable in the shops and homes all 'round the country.
Everything is available, at a price, except for the most desired for consumer products such as, Maize Meal, Flour, Sugar, Cooking Oil and Margerine never mind the fuel crisis! The people are dying, government casual labour rates are Z$15.00 per hour which works out to an amount just short of SAR1.00 per day whilst our minimum rates are set at about SAR57.00 per day. A 10kg bag of yellow USA maize meal, if you can get it, costs the equivelent of SAR45.00 on the 'black' market which is about SAR12.00 more expensive than good old white maize in SA.

It is very sad but I have just very recently heard that that Mr. Edson Zvobgo who was fired by Bob in about 1998/9 has been reinstalled in ZANU PF and in all likeleness, he is to take over from Bob before the year end.
Edson was a fanatic at one time, even more so than Bob but apparently he became more of a democratic than Bob and challenged Bob's ideas and plans but now that the Zim's Govt is taking international strain and so forth, it appears as though the writing may be on the wall for Bob.
There may be some truth in this as I am sure that ZANU PF would rather have Edson in the hot seat than their oppersition leader, Morgan or any of his party.

I hope this may have given you a bit more light on the situation in the once 'Pearl of Africa' and my country.
Mike

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