Published for a Purpose

            Today on You Have To Be Kidding Me
Zimbabwe Really Is a Nation?:

~Zimbabwean Reserve Bank Head Gideon Gono announced in
Seoul that inflation would peak at around 1,200% for the month of May, and then recede to the single digits by 2008. According to unnamed economists who do not exist, this was met with laughter. The investors clamed that they would only invest in
Zimbabwe if the exchange rate was liberalized, human rights observed, and an audible voice from on high ordered them to. To this Gono admitted that the exchange rate would be “gradually” turned to normal, which will no doubt make his previous statements moot.

~China was bit in the rear by its love “Zimbabwe Policy” as Air
Zimbabwe has defaulted on a $15 million dollar airline payment ( www.MA60.com )-Oops. The Russians have responded by stating that while the airplanes Zimbabwe was claiming it did not want to buy, that were safe despite having a record of being difficult to manage and a 2005 report by an independent research firm that the planes sometimes have trouble breaking in humid conditions, would not be purchased, and were off the table. The nation’s platinum company was still going to visit
Zimbabwe, and likely run away screaming like all other investors thus far.

~Two or so Earthquakes have shaken the Zimbabwean nation, both around 4.00 in scale.

~
Zimbabwe wants mines, and miners are only slowly grasping that idea, though they had considerably greater warning then the farmers in 2000. Note any one who remains mining in a country with a 4% score on the “best places to mine index” should be a clue to go elsewhere.

~The ZSE has made an impressive 5.5% climb on Monday, outpacing the 3.5% daily inflation by 2% for the first time since the (obviously drunk) Sunday Times Business Reporter stated in the EASTER edition that “Stocks will definitely go up in the second quarter with the implementation of the NDEPP (an economic plan phantom) especially the locally brewed DELTA products. DELTA is the best stock ever. (Note, I cannot tell what exactly happened as the ZSE is cutting costs by just showing overall market change, share prices are currently unavailable.

~Swedish Ambassador to Zimbabwe has made record time in correcting a misquote by Zimbabwe, he wants to build bridges, but Zimbabwe is not playing nice with its people at present, with all the torturing, killing of dissidents, threatening to wipe a major district off the map if ZANU didn’t win the by-elections. (Note: ZANU lost by 2-1 margin of the 10,000 votes. Ironically the same number as the second year “trash cleanup
Harare” has currently displaced. This was basically a pick up poor people, drop them in the middle of a street exercise. To the best of my knowledge, actual TRASH pickup has not occurred in months.) Church groups managed to peacefully protest the last year’s raid, and the current years.

~Bindura students who allegedly torched a computer lab are still in prison. To me this seems far too convenient to be a coincidence. “You cannot be trusted with computers so we will monitor all your online activities thing. At the official exchange rate the damage cost about $1,851 (half that for unofficial rate) The equipment involved according to the Herald was a “Revisor, two computers two chairs, a desk and numerous other irreplaceable items.” No further comment on this mess.

~I was published in the Leading Zimbabweans in Dispora Website. www.Zimdaily.com.

~Bus accidents have over the past few months killed 400 people. Is it just a coincidence that all these busses apparently are Chinese made?

Bookmark/Search this post with:

 •    •    •    •    •    •    •