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Original Post Date: 2003-12-19 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 12/19/2003 2:40:54 PM
UN: More aid needed for Zim crises including Cholera
[Note. They say being black is a disadvantage. NO WAY!!! Being black is cool. You can botch things up and the world runs to give you money, food, etc for free and NOBODY BLAMES YOU (who caused the mess in the first place!!). Not only that, but you can sit there and say the nastiest, most ungrateful, spiteful things imaginable about those who are trying to help you!! I wish I could be black then I wouldn’t have to bear any responsibility for my own actions.
Now being white is a bummer… because if you’re white, the whole world slaps sanctions on you and gangs up on you no matter how efficient or responsible you are – you’ll just get your butt kicked. Nobody died ever from starvation in Rhodesia or South Africa but damn us anyway!! Jan]
Harare – The United Nations warned on Thursday that it would have to extend its famine relief plans in Zimbabwe for another six months as a result of a worsening of food shortages and the growing risk of cholera outbreaks in the country’s cities and towns. The United Nations’ Relief and Recovery Unit said in its latest report issued this week that not only would there be “severe food shortages” in the first three months of next year, but warned that in the following months, when Zimbabweans normally reap their summer grain crop, famine would continue because of a “sharp decline” in crop production. Failure by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government to provide seed and crop chemicals meant “a large proportion” of households were unable to farm. The report said water and sewerage systems in urban areas were in “rapid decline” because of the critical shortage of hard currency to buy water purification chemicals and spares for pumping systems. It forecast “severe” breakdowns of urban water supplies, especially in poor townships, and the likelihood of epidemics of cholera and dysentry. Nineteen people have died in the last month in a still continuing cholera outbreak in the remote northern district of Binga. A UN appeal for Zimbabwe launched last year for $264-million has so far attracted only $105-million, amid reports of Western donors’ reluctance to be involved with Mugabe’s regime as a result of the widespread use of the government’s own food aid programme to force people to support Mugabe’s ruling party.
Meanwhile, in Harare new Central Bank governor Gideon Gono issued a “monetary policy roadmap” in which he pledged that inflation, currently at 620 percent, would be brought down to 200 percent by next year and to “double digits” the year after. He announced changes to the exchange rate system, which would allow exporters to change 25 percent of their foreign currency earnings through a currency auction system, while they would be allowed to keep another 50 percent in locally-held foreign currency bank accounts and the remaining 25 percent would have to be sold to the central bank at the official rate of $1 to Z$800. The US dollar currently earns Zimbabwe dollars about 7 500 on the semi-legal parallel market. Under the current system, exporters lose half of their earnings to the Central Bank at the official rate. He said a “whistleblowers’ fund” would be set up in terms of which anyone who provided “quality information” on illegal currency dealings would be paid 10 percent of the value of the deal, in hard currency. “You can no longer trust your export clerks who will overhear what you say. It will give them the chance of a first-time holiday outside the country,” he said.
He also announced a dual interest rate system which would see borrowers paying “unsubsidised” market rates – now running at nearly 650 percent – while “institutional and development” borrowing would attract only 30 percent. Gono also said he would try to “re-engage” with Western financial institutions to access balance of payments support, lines of credit and foreign direct investment. Zimbabwe has been cut off from bilateral and multilateral international finance over the last five years, as a result of its failure to meet debt repayments, the lack of any action to try and restore economic viability in what was until recently one of Africa’s strongest economies and the climate of repression of Mugabe’s opponents. Zimbabwe external debt stands at $5,4-billion and it is in arrears of $2-billion. “We will seek to repay all our debts in the fullness of time and will try to show initiative and commitment towards repayment at the earliest opportunity,” said Gono. In the meantime, he went on, “I appeal to donors to display sensitivity and where possible to offer us terms and conditions that will not militate against our turn-around programme.”
Source:IOL (SA)
published:Thu 18-Dec-2003
URL: http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID…br>