Friday, December 19, 2008

$10 billion - and space still in your wallet for an Advantage card

I hate what Robert Mugabe has done to Zimbabwe, the once-proud former British colony of Rhodesia. He represents everything that is wrong with southern Africa, and his continued existence as "President" serves only to highlight the cowardice of South Africa's leadership, and that of the international bodies that allow him to cling to power while a cholera epidemic sweeps across the country, starvation is rampant and inflation in November topped...

89.7 Sextillion Percent.


The Mugabe regime is composed of utter scumbags, but I give them credit for having the balls to explain the cholera epidemic by "announcing that there is no epidemic, and if there were, it is a "chemical biological warfare" launched by Britain against its former colony."

Give a special tip of the hat to Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono, who explained the introduction of a new Zimbabwean $10 billion note for the "convenience of the public ahead of the festive season."

For more background on the current horror that has enveloped Zimbabwe, I strongly recommend The Economist.

2 comments:

  1. You may also like (well, that's not the right word) this article from the New Yorker:

    The Destroyer
    Robert Mugabe and the destruction of Zimbabwe.
    by Jon Lee Anderson

    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/27/081027fa_fact_anderson

    Same link shorter:
    http://tinyurl.com/5g29jq

    Sigh.

    Jim

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  2. Thanks for the additional background source, Jim.

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