Zim asks for $5bn from SA

[StrongTurd]

Take note, that's US DOLLARS, not ZAR.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai met President Kgalema Motlanthe yesterday and asked him to help his devastated country secure an aid package amounting to more than US$5 billion. South Africa is still working out the details of how much it will give to Zimbabwe and Motlanthe said yesterday the figure would only be determined late next week when southern African finance ministers and the head of the African Development Bank would meet to evaluate the needs. However, he said South Africa was prepared to take the lead in any financial rescue package. Before the meeting Zimbabwean sources had suggested that Tsvangirai would ask Motlanthe for US$600 million (about R6bn) to fund a short-term intervention package, mainly to pay the salaries of critical professionals such as doctors, nurses and teachers, to get moribund health care and education up and running.

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That's OUR money we're talking about here; taxpayer's money. It should come as no surprise to any of us that Mugabe is still firmly in charge in Zim and now you and I are going to give him vast sums of money as a reward for destroying his own country. That works out to about R1000 that every one of the 50 million South Africans will give to this c**t. Nice, isn't it?

 

[Telkomisaloser]

And I'll tell them to ****!!!

 

[Flanders]

Ya, SACAFOAD. I'm not going to try and explain that one but it wouldn't be pleasant for a heterosexual male.

 

[boramk]

How much have we given them so far?

R700 Billion in 2005
a few more in between
This $5Billion

Total?

 

[Vrotappel]

No wonder we are going into a massive deficit this year. The SA taxpayer will have to pay for another country's mistakes. See the xenophobic attacks when south africans start to lose their jobs thanks to this.

 

[ZA.Schmidt]

This will go a long way to paying the interior decorator for Mugabe's new Hong Kong pad

 

[Milano]

Doesn't matter to me...They can have my R1000 for Bob. When the **** hits the fan here, I will be long gone. The population that supports our government's actions (and their children) will ultimately the pay the price since they're stuck here.

A nation gets the leaders it deserves.

 

[PeterCH]

Well now you know why Trevor didn't cut taxes as much as needed to kickstart our economy or relieve the suffering consumers, heck now you know why the fuel price is going up too. Tax 4 Zim!

 

[Morgoth]

sure, if Mugabe and Zanu PF leaves zimbabwe then we "might" might" consider paying it in zim dollars.

 

[PeterCH]

sure, if Mugabe and Zanu PF leaves zimbabwe then we "might" might" consider paying it in zim dollars.

I dunno, that might cost us all our forests .

 

[killadoob]

Ok look it is morgan asking for money and i don't see him as the bad guy but all i have to say is F off.

Take that 5 billion get an army together invade the fuqers and get the white farmers their farm lands back. Mugabe you skin alive and leave him to die.

 

[Morgoth]

My dearest Zimbabwe all we got to say is


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[NameOfBeast]

Take note, that's US DOLLARS, not ZAR.



Link.

That's OUR money we're talking about here; taxpayer's money. It should come as no surprise to any of us that Mugabe is still firmly in charge in Zim and now you and I are going to give him vast sums of money as a reward for destroying his own country. That works out to about R1000 that every one of the 50 million South Africans will give to this c**t. Nice, isn't it?

Erm, how may of those 50 million are actually registered tax payers? The actual burden is much higher than R1000/chump.

 

[StrongTurd]

Erm, how may of those 50 million are actually registered tax payers? The actual burden is much higher than R1000/chump.

I never said otherwise. I just did a straight per capita calculation to show the scale of the donation/waste involved here. IIRC there's about 5 million tax payers in SA. That means that the R1000 becomes R10 000 for each of us that actually pay tax.

 

[stoke]

What are they going to do with the money?
I don't mind bailing them out, but they cannot be trusted.
Step 1 = Food production + on-the-job Education re. food production.
Step 2 = Education for the rest.

If these are not the 2 steps being undertaken with the money, then ... no.

Now, considering that we cannot even get those 2 steps right in our country, the answer is going to have to be no unless the UN is given the money to implement those steps.

 

[NameOfBeast]

I never said otherwise. I just did a straight per capita calculation to show the scale of the donation/waste involved here. IIRC there's about 5 million tax payers in SA. That means that the R1000 becomes R10 000 for each of us that actually pay tax.

Sorry, didn't intend my comment as an attack. The R10000ish estimate sounds about right. Wow.

 

[Xyber]

This will go a long way to paying the interior decorator for Mugabe's new Hong Kong pad

+1

I can see this money being wasted.

 

[StrongTurd]

No problem.

 

[Phenom]

Well it is true, we don't owe them 1c, they owe us a great deal, seeing how they ruined our currency and threatened our economy.

 

[Buddha]

**** that!

we need to be able to say no to this ****? isnt stuff like this supposed to come under public degabte?

US$5Billion!

are they serious?!?