komt net in: over Zim en de Zim-Rand

Ik heb onderstaande via email ontvangen, maar gelijk er even een URL bijgezocht zodat er een verificatie gedaan kan worden; ik had zat hits ieg, dus voor reden om aan te nemen dat de informatie ‘genuine’ is.

Als onderdeel van mijn blogposts over de Rand heb ik in deel 3 in juli 08 al aangegeven dat de nieuwe currency van Zim de Rand gaat zijn. Groot is mijn verbazing niet als in het onderstaande artikel de Rand genoemd word als het ‘anker’ voor de nieuwe Zim$. Iets wat onhaalbaar is zonder een daadwerkelijke verankering in die munt die tweezijdig werkt; maw een mogelijk doodsvonnis voor de Rand….

Maar goed, verder staat er nog interessante informatie over de migratiegolf van geheel Zuiderlijk Afrika richting de v/h regenboognasie en de gevolgen hiervan ( die niet allemaal negatief hoeven te zijn…. )

Oh ja, en nog dat luxe probleem genaamd cholera.

Ter Info,

Aryan

http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17972&Itemid=106

Zimbabwe: Despair and Despondency - Eddie Cross

One of the most bizarre aspect of the past week was the leaking of a paper

prepared by Gono, the illegally appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank,

where he sets out plans to adopt the Rand as an anchor currency and suggests

that mineral and other high value exports could generate up to US$1,2

billion a MONTH. His figures and rationale show no understanding of the

scale of the crisis we are in or the remedies required. The astonishing

thing is that this buffoon is actually taken seriously in Zanu PF circles. I

am sure the officials in government departments do not give this sort of

rubbish any credence – but they are not directing our affairs. Another of

his astonishing ideas is a 30 per cent export tax!

In the meantime, Rome burns. Cholera infections (official only) are now

nearly 50 000 with reported deaths at over 3000. Aids deaths continue at

about 3000 a week, human flight at whatever figure you want to estimate –

but not less than 25 000 a week. Deaths from TB, malaria, child deaths and

death of women in childbirth run at another 1000 or so a week. It is a

silent genocide and Grace Machel said it best this past week when she

slammed SADC leadership for standing by and doing nothing, in fact making

the situation worse by not acting to support democracy, the rule of law and

all international standards of human and political rights.

One of the worst centers for cholera and the town with the highest death

toll (18 per cent of all infected) is Chegutu, about 100 kilometers from

Harare to the south. This past week a fellow MP told me that he went to the

local hospital to try and get an impression of what was going on. All he

found was an empty shell – every thing that could be moved had been stolen,

there were no staff on duty and the complex was abandoned.

Another colleague stood up in Parliament and said he had just visited a

relative in the local Prison. He detailed conditions in both the remand

section and in the main prison itself. Hundreds of prisoners ill with

cholera, little or no treatment available, dead bodies left in the cells for

days and food rations down to 25 per cent of “normal”. It was a chilling

statement and was received in complete silence by the House.

Eddie Cross

Bulawayo, January 24th 2009

Aryan

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