Sandy
07-31-2019, 07:35 AM
Niggers took over a country, Rhodesia, that whites had made the breadbasket of Africa. Nothing good was ever going to come of it.
Mnangagwa, 76, who took over from long-time autocrat Robert Mugabe, went into the July 30 2018 elections vowing to revive Zimbabwe's sickly economy, end cash shortages, mend fences with former western allies and lure foreign investors.
But within months of Mnangagwa's election, the ghosts of Zimbabwe's economic past returned: severe power rationing and shortages of fuel, bread, medicine and other basics.
In June this year, the annual inflation rate hit a decade-high 175 percent. Memories revived of the terrifying hyperinflation that reached 500 billion percent in 2009, wiping out savings and wrecking the economy.
But in June, Zimbabwe in theory ended the use of greenbacks, replacing them with "bond notes" and electronic RTGS dollars, which would combine to become a new Zimbabwe dollar, a currency that has yet to be introduced in paper form.
Zimbabweans say it is a nightmare to get common documents such as passports, drivers' licence discs and vehicle registration plates -- the government is too poor to import the materials to make them.
"We are sitting in a vehicle whose wheels have fallen off," Derek Matyszak, a senior researcher at a South African think tank, the Institute of Security Studies, told AFP. "Nothing is moving".
Two days after the election, at least six people were killed when soldiers opened fire on protesters demanding the results of the ballot be published.
In January, at least 17 people were shot dead and scores injured as soldiers were ordered to crush nationwide protests triggered by a doubling of fuel prices.
Power is usually turned on between 10 pm (2000 GMT) and 5 am (0300 GMT) -- at other times, businesses are at at loss to know whether they will get electricity.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mnangagwas-election-old-woes-haunt-zimbabwe-035244819.html
Mnangagwa, 76, who took over from long-time autocrat Robert Mugabe, went into the July 30 2018 elections vowing to revive Zimbabwe's sickly economy, end cash shortages, mend fences with former western allies and lure foreign investors.
But within months of Mnangagwa's election, the ghosts of Zimbabwe's economic past returned: severe power rationing and shortages of fuel, bread, medicine and other basics.
In June this year, the annual inflation rate hit a decade-high 175 percent. Memories revived of the terrifying hyperinflation that reached 500 billion percent in 2009, wiping out savings and wrecking the economy.
But in June, Zimbabwe in theory ended the use of greenbacks, replacing them with "bond notes" and electronic RTGS dollars, which would combine to become a new Zimbabwe dollar, a currency that has yet to be introduced in paper form.
Zimbabweans say it is a nightmare to get common documents such as passports, drivers' licence discs and vehicle registration plates -- the government is too poor to import the materials to make them.
"We are sitting in a vehicle whose wheels have fallen off," Derek Matyszak, a senior researcher at a South African think tank, the Institute of Security Studies, told AFP. "Nothing is moving".
Two days after the election, at least six people were killed when soldiers opened fire on protesters demanding the results of the ballot be published.
In January, at least 17 people were shot dead and scores injured as soldiers were ordered to crush nationwide protests triggered by a doubling of fuel prices.
Power is usually turned on between 10 pm (2000 GMT) and 5 am (0300 GMT) -- at other times, businesses are at at loss to know whether they will get electricity.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mnangagwas-election-old-woes-haunt-zimbabwe-035244819.html