The UN Children's Fund says school attendance in Zimbabwe has been dropping at an alarming rate because of the collapse of the country's socio-economic system, which is affecting students and teachers alike. UNICEF says it is afraid few children in Zimbabwe will be returning to class when schools are scheduled to re-open in a couple of weeks.
Zimbabwe's economy is now virtually based on foreign exchange, a state daily
said Thursday, with fewer goods and services available in the local dollar
which is rapidly losing its worth because of galloping inflation.
Construction on the new Beitbridge hotel, set to accommodate football fans during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, has been halted, with seven artisans working on the building’s construction being struck down with cholera.
A Zimbabwe polling agent holds voting papers during a recount. Photograph: Desmond Kwande/AFP/Getty Images
The situation in Zimbabwe is something that is hard to talk about, because how bad a picture can you paint that people will still believe you?
AT least 2,000 tourists, mostly from Europe and the United States, who were expected to
visit Tanzania have cancelled their bookings due to the global financial crisis, an official said
here yesterday.
Begin with a coalition of 'a league of democracies'
Nat Hentoff
While the world stands still, hearing of the terrors and deaths inflicted on Zimbabweans by their inhuman president, Robert Mugabe, a December 7 lead editorial in this newspaper got to the insatiable evil of his rule as the United Nations customarily just mutters away its useless concerns. "People are starving and compete in the countryside with baboons, jackals and goats for roots and wild fruits; health care has imploded and cholera is on the march as water and sewer systems collapse; and refugees by the millions have left the country." Some of those refugees bring cholera with them to neighboring states.
The utterances of the Mugabe regime grow increasingly bizarre with each passing day. The man is now unmistakably certifiable.
As far as Mugabe himself goes one can, quite logically, put his lunatic ravings down to senile dementia.