‘Formula One Inflation’

ZIMBABWE has hit the world record inflation mark of 230 million per cent. Ninety percent of the “working population is unemployed.

How does Zimbabwe survive? A quarter of the population have voted with their feet (ballot box was no option). These, the skills and brain drain, keep family at home alive by foreign remittances, from mainly South Africa and the UK.The World Food Programme also assists in survival.Mugabe, isolated in the luxury of state house, blames Britain and the USA.He has forgotten to look in the mirror.In his egotistical obsession with power, he takes no advice from the electorate, SADC, Thabo Mbeki or world opinion.He will only relent, when rock bottom (stone age) has been reached, and the house of Samson collapses in on him.Only Monomotapa or God can remove him.They are patient.Time is on their side.The Zimbabwean Armageddon has meticulously been planned by Zanu-PF and Mugabe.* Expropriate land without compensation and destroy the collateral of the banking system; * Loss of production by inexperienced incompetent cadres; * Loss of confidence in the absence of rule of law; * Loss of employment – 90% unemployed; * Flooding the market with worthless million-dollar bills; * Refusal to share power; * Betraying the trust of the people who sacrificed in the liberation struggle for a better future.Zimbabwe will only arise from the ashes when Robert Mugabe is cremated, and democracy returns.Ferrari Fan, Windhoek Note: Real name and address provided – EdThese, the skills and brain drain, keep family at home alive by foreign remittances, from mainly South Africa and the UK.The World Food Programme also assists in survival.Mugabe, isolated in the luxury of state house, blames Britain and the USA.He has forgotten to look in the mirror.In his egotistical obsession with power, he takes no advice from the electorate, SADC, Thabo Mbeki or world opinion.He will only relent, when rock bottom (stone age) has been reached, and the house of Samson collapses in on him.Only Monomotapa or God can remove him.They are patient.Time is on their side.The Zimbabwean Armageddon has meticulously been planned by Zanu-PF and Mugabe.* Expropriate land without compensation and destroy the collateral of the banking system; * Loss of production by inexperienced incompetent cadres; * Loss of confidence in the absence of rule of law; * Loss of employment – 90% unemployed; * Flooding the market with worthless million-dollar bills; * Refusal to share power; * Betraying the trust of the people who sacrificed in the liberation struggle for a better future.Zimbabwe will only arise from the ashes when Robert Mugabe is cremated, and democracy returns.Ferrari Fan, Windhoek Note: Real name and address provided – Ed