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SassyEuro2

Sun 07/05/15 03:05 PM

http://allafrica.com/stories/201507040228.html/ ill

New Zimbabwe (London)
3 JULY 2015

Zimbabwe: Biti Warns That...
ZIMBABWEANS might soon resort to cannibalism if the gripping hunger stalking the nation is not averted, former Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said.

Biti, now secretary general of the MDC Renewal Team, told party supporters in Harare's dormitory town of Chitungwiza that stress related deaths had gone up in the country.

"If left to continue, the current situation will lead to cannibalism where human beings will resort to eating human flesh.

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"Most of the deaths being witnessed in the country are either due to starvation or stress related ailments like High Blood Pressure, hypertension and heart attack, because of the economic, political and social decay we are witnessing," said Biti.

"Going to funerals to pay condolences is now some form of formal employment because many people are stressed up to a level where the strain takes their lives".

Biti said the current rise in domestic violence cases is an indication that "the stress levels in the country have gone to dangerous levels as well as a breakdown of the family structure.

Men who are no longer able to provide for their families resort to violent ways to assert themselves on the women".

"The Renewal Team will, among other issues, launch an economic blue print Holistic Program for Economic Transformation (HOPE), that will outline the party's strategy on curbing unemployment, attracting Foreign Direct Investment and dealing with external debt.

The economic blue print will also proffer the infrastructure expansion and development plan," he said, urging government to move quickly to repeal the contentious indigenisation laws.

"As it is, the indigenisation policy has only resulted in massive capital flight causing companies to close en masse.

Companies closures have resulted in a serious decline of the capacity utilization of Zimbabwean Industries and sad losses of jobs, leaving many people destitute".

The former treasury chief said his party's economic proposals will "aim at restoration of human dignity in the country, creation of formal jobs and development of the country which is now more than 40 years behind in that respect".


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devildog123

Sun 07/05/15 03:59 PM

This is surely terrible. But it has been going on there for what seems like forever.

Breakdown in families. kids starving, undernourished, sickly. born into misery

But they continue to have kids. They continue to bring children into that poverty.

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Deb1954

Sun 07/05/15 04:12 PM

When I was 10 years old, I sat on a bale of hay, in my dad's
barn. I was reading a National Geographic and crying. The children in Africa were starving to death, so the artical said.
I am sixty, I read a National Geographic and the same thing
children in Africa are starving.
The trouble with all of this is as Americans we simply threw money at
the problem. Money the people in charged (mostly the armies) took
the money and did not help the people.
What needs done is to help educate people and children, provide good
drinking water response to desease and general welfare. We should
be helping them in bringing them into the 21st century.
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alleoops

Sun 07/05/15 04:17 PM

Well, at least Robert Mugabe got rid of all the white farmers noway
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SassyEuro2

Sun 07/05/15 04:28 PM

The more I read about Zimbabwe, the more I see wrong. It is sad, scarey , chaos & tragic all the same time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/?title=Xenophobia/
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2OLD2MESSAROUND

Sun 07/05/15 06:49 PM

I can't help but believe that this nation - once called Rhodesia - and cut free from UK's rule has been accepting our American dollars and filling the presidents pockets; and the humanitarian aid {food/health care/agriculture assistance/medical supplies} have all been nothing more the products for the President to sell or hoard for his own personal gain!

And another African Nations allows their own country humans to suffer unspeakable horrors!

We need to stop this handing money over to those bastards without proof that they are sending in the supplies and nutrition to those areas that need it --- rant

Why is it always 'AMERICAN DOLLARS' to save everyone in the WORLD?

U.S.-ZIMBABWE RELATIONS

The United Kingdom formally granted independence to Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) in 1980, following years of conflict between minority white rulers and majority black guerilla movements. The United States was the first nation to open an embassy in the country, and it pledged assistance toward the Zimbabwean Government's goals of postwar reconstruction, distribution and development of land, and the development of skilled manpower.

Robert Gabriel Mugabe was elected as Zimbabwe’s first prime minister in 1980 and became president in 1987 after changes to the constitution created an executive presidency. He has remained in power ever since.

In 2001, the United States began imposing targeted sanctions on the Government of Zimbabwe, including restrictions on U.S. support for multilateral financing, financial sanctions against selected individuals and entities, travel sanctions against selected individuals, a ban on transfers of defense items and services, and a suspension of non-humanitarian government-to-government assistance. Despite strained political relations, the United States is a leading provider of humanitarian assistance to the people of Zimbabwe, providing more than $150 million in humanitarian assistance, much of which was food aid, in 2012.

During the period between 2000 and 2008, the United States took a leading role in condemning the Zimbabwean Government's increasing assault on human rights and the rule of law, and joined much of the world community in calling for the Government of Zimbabwe to embrace a peaceful democratic evolution.

[color=red}While relatively peaceful, the presidential and parliamentary elections of July 2013 were deeply flawed, and the United States and others in the international community concluded that the polls did not represent the will of the Zimbabwean people.

The United States shares the same fundamental interest as the Zimbabwean people: a stable, peaceful, democratic Zimbabwe that reflects the people’s will and provides for their needs. Our support for the people of Zimbabwe includes ensuring that those few Zimbabweans using their positions of power to undermine Zimbabwe’s democratic progress are not benefiting from their actions. We have made it clear that the easing of restrictive measures, including targeted sanctions and travel bans, will only occur in the context of credible, transparent, and lasting democratic reforms.

U.S. Assistance to Zimbabwe

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) assistance to Zimbabwe since 2002 has focused on HIV/AIDS prevention, democracy and governance programs, humanitarian assistance, economic growth and agriculture, and investing in people. In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began a direct assistance program. CDC's program consists of prevention of HIV transmission; improved care of persons with HIV/AIDS; surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation of the epidemic; and health sector infrastructure support.


http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5479.htm
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Dodo_David

Sun 07/05/15 07:10 PM


When I was 10 years old, I sat on a bale of hay, in my dad's
barn. I was reading a National Geographic and crying. The children in Africa were starving to death, so the artical said.
I am sixty, I read a National Geographic and the same thing
children in Africa are starving.
The trouble with all of this is as Americans we simply threw money at
the problem. Money the people in charged (mostly the armies) took
the money and did not help the people


That is why one should give through a private charity that doesn't pay any government anything.
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alleoops

Sun 07/05/15 07:39 PM



When I was 10 years old, I sat on a bale of hay, in my dad's
barn. I was reading a National Geographic and crying. The children in Africa were starving to death, so the artical said.
I am sixty, I read a National Geographic and the same thing
children in Africa are starving.
The trouble with all of this is as Americans we simply threw money at
the problem. Money the people in charged (mostly the armies) took
the money and did not help the people


That is why one should give through a private charity that doesn't pay any government anything.


uh, that would eliminate just about all of Africa.
Try the "Clinton Foundation".laugh
Edited by alleoops on Sun 07/05/15 07:41 PM
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tomato86

Sun 07/05/15 08:00 PM


When I was 10 years old, I sat on a bale of hay, in my dad's
barn. I was reading a National Geographic and crying. The children in Africa were starving to death, so the artical said.
I am sixty, I read a National Geographic and the same thing
children in Africa are starving.
The trouble with all of this is as Americans we simply threw money at
the problem. Money the people in charged (mostly the armies) took
the money and did not help the people.
What needs done is to help educate people and children, provide good
drinking water response to desease and general welfare. We should
be helping them in bringing them into the 21st century.


"we" are broke, the last thing "we" need is to go building up another country for them to rip it all apart and start back at square one.
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alleoops

Mon 07/06/15 11:57 AM

Well, before Mugabe drives out more of the evil foreign businesses.
Maybe he could sell one of his four mansions he owns in foreign countries? ohwell