Zimbabwe scraps fuel scheme

[BobbyMac]

Zimbabwe has scrapped a scheme allowing fuel purchases with foreign currency, removing one of the few remaining ways for people to acquire petrol in a country struggling with a crumbling economy.

The facility is also used by foreign diplomats and officials working for international aid organisations.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=314427&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/

How much longer can that country still go on for?

 

[Paul_S]

How much longer can that country still go on for?

For as long as the people don't take up arms and remove Mugabe from power.

The people that are still left in Zim face starvation yet they still do nothing. Either Mugabe's "it's all the West's fault" propaganda is really working or the people are totally apathetic.

I think the crunch will come when Mugabe is unable to pay and feed the Zanu-PF militia and police. Then there will be a nice little coup and the next dictator will be in power.

 

[GTi]

Who's buying petrol in Zimbabwe, if they are all here in SA or are they going back to try and purchase is Rands (foreign currency)?

 

[nivek]

yeah ! "tourism is booming" in SA this month

 

[GTi]

yeah ! "tourism is booming" in SA this month

 

[Leitmotif]

For as long as the people don't take up arms and remove Mugabe from power.

And here's the problem. Mugabe's militias are armed, but the common people were disarmed years back. Gun control working perfectly...

 

[lsuacner]

Seriously, a few million people who will starve anyway, facing a few thousand soldiers, who would not turn to support a revolutionary leader themselves.. These people can get out of it themselves.

 

[Shaka]

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=314427&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/

How much longer can that country still go on for?

This is actually bias reporting; it doesn't say what the intention of the government is by doing that. I must check that info with Zimbabwe own press to confirm, because those people reporting about Zimbabwe here, are the same folks who supported oppression with all their heart, In the old days and they still have that dream in their brain

 

[BobbyMac]

This is actually bias reporting; it doesn't say what the intention of the government is by doing that. I must check that info with Zimbabwe own press to confirm, because those people reporting about Zimbabwe here, are the same folks who supported oppression with all their heart, In the old days and they still have that dream in their brain

Off you go then. Leave the proper conversations to us grown ups OK?