Big Zimbabwean march for Mugabe

[killadoob]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7121871.stm

They were backing Mr Mugabe's bid for re-election next year.

It was advertised as "a million man march". Harare residents say it was the biggest public demonstration in the capital for several years.

One of the organisers, liberation war veteran leader Jabulani Sibanda, said the march was meant to show the world that Zimbabweans were united.

BBC southern Africa correspondent Peter Biles says many of those marching are thought to have been bussed into Harare from outlying areas.

After making their way through the city centre, the crowd moved on to the suburb of Highfield - a place of huge symbolic importance as it was the venue for Mr Mugabe's first speech in Zimbabwe when he returned home after the liberation war in 1980.

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change has been engaged in talks with the governing Zanu-PF party for some months now.

But our correspondent says the political stalemate in the country has yet to be broken.

these ppl are sick and should just be .... naaa i wont say it

htf can these ppl support this man!!!

 

[sand_man]

obviously everything is sweet in zim. media fabricating a situation that doesnt exsist...

 

[Alan]

Viva Viva a toy-toy is irresistible

 

[sand_man]

perhaps they handing out free pilchards on toast...

 

[Ou grote]

Well, this bit of news from Zim was the most interesting i've read in a while.
Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/default/display_article.aspx?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-25_2228533

Why Zim can't measure inflation
Nov 27 2007 06:20 PM
Harare - Zimbabwe is so short on consumer goods, the government can't even calculate inflation, the chief statistician said on Tuesday.
Chief statistician Moffat Nyoni said goods used in calculating the average inflation basket were not available in stores across the country and so the figures, usually issued at the beginning of each month, would be delayed.

The official inflation figure was given last month as 7 982%, by far the highest in the world.

"There are too many data gaps," he told the state media.

His office was "now trying to find ways of coming up with the missing figures," the daily Herald newspaper, a government mouthpiece, reported.

Zimbabwe suffers runaway prices, chronic unemployment and acute shortages. Unofficial estimates say that true inflation based on the government's basket of goods at around 15 000% and that - taking into account a broader range of goods - is closer to 40%000%. The International Monetary Fund has forecast it reaching 100 000% by the end of the year.

Corn meal, bread, meat, cooking oil, sugar and other basic staples used to measure inflation largely disappeared from stores after a government order in June to slash prices of all goods and services by about half. Producers said they could not afford to sell their goods at below the cost of producing them.

About the only meat-based product on the shelves is sausages composed of about one-fourth low grade pork and the rest cereal. A package of six rose thirty-fold in price in the past month, to Zim$20m.

Most scarce products are available in limited quantities on the illegal black market at up to 10 times the government's fixed prices. If inflation was calculated on black market prices alone it would reach the IMF's prediction of at least 100 000%.

Last month, the central bank offered loans to businesses at 25% interest to restore supplies to shops. Interest of about 500% is charged on routine commercial bank loans.

But central bank loans have made little difference to the availability of basic goods so far, store managers say.

A strike by court magistrates and state prosecutors demanding more pay was in its fourth week on Tuesday

 

[sand_man]

yeah pretty pathetic really, doesn't seem possible does it? the nation has been plundered and then some, raped, pillaged and left for dead but they march on...

 

[HavocXphere]

htf can these ppl support this man!!!

Starving people are easily bribed.

I think they tried a million people march some time back already. Turnout was like 5k or so.

 

[NoADSLyet]

What do you expect more from typical African Bafoons!

 

[lion_fish]

They all deserve what they get.

Vote Mugabe once, shame on you...
Vote mugabe twice, i hope that alcohol was nice...
Vote mugabe in AGAIN after 27 years of harship and suffering...go **** yourselves Zimbabweans. You obviously like it.

(and i have the right to say this as i was born in Zim but had the rationality to do something about it...leave.)

 

[killadoob]

yea i understand they are starving

at some point in a person/s life they have to think, hmmm starving or possibly a new president who will bring food and make our country better for everyone

nope lets march and keep the man starving us in power because we are to stupid to think anything else

i cannot feel sorry for ppl who cannot stand up for themselves

i just wish we would use our 60 billion rand army sometimes

 

[killadoob]

They all deserve what they get.

Vote Mugabe once, shame on you...
Vote mugabe twice, i hope that alcohol was nice...
Vote mugabe in AGAIN after 27 years of harship and suffering...go **** yourselves Zimbabweans. You obviously like it.

(and i have the right to say this as i was born in Zim but had the rationality to do something about it...leave.)

rofl

 

[BTTB]

Free Food

The irony of the situation is that Mugabe's so called supporters can march freely, but just let the MDC have a small gathering and Mugabe's Policeman/Henchman come down on them like a ton of bricks, getting violent and hurting people.

Truth be told, there is probably free food for the marchers afterwards.

 

[killadoob]

yea but imagine how much food there would be if a new president came into power?

problem with africa is they dont think about the future only the now