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Zimbabwe: buying votes with Maize-meal

WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.

Original Post Date: 2004-05-14 Time: 14:19:02  Posted By: Jan

[These evil people remain hard at work keeping Mugabe in power. And yet, the Liberal fools thought that with honesty, openness and playing fair… they could win… NOT!!! Finally, I see this article mentions internal dissension. That is such rubbish. People have been writing about internal dissension for so long. I no longer believe any of it. Mugabe’s government is NOT about to collapse – in fact – his position is getting stronger. Jan]

Zanu PF strategists believe that a new plan to lock out foreign food aid and hold early elections will bring certain victory

The government’s order to a United Nations’ crop assessment team to leave the country last weekend is part of its strategy to maintain tight political control over food supply and score a resounding win in the coming parliamentary elections. The order effectively blocks UN and European preparations to provide the food aid estimated to be needed by more than 5 million people this year. President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front government didn’t want the UN team to produce figures that show that this year’s harvest would fall far short of Zimbabwe’s food requirement. That would expose the failure of the land reform programme and lead to hundreds of UN and aid agency officials handing out food aid in the run-up to an election. So political insiders now believe that Mugabe’s ruling clique has decided to bring forward the parliamentary elections to October, before the food runs out completely. Any shortfall between now and then will be covered be a series of maize-for-tobacco swaps to supply enough food for Zanu PF’s loyal supporters (173)­ and for those supporters whom it believes it can win back from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Die-hard opposition supporting areas are likely to see chronic shortages of food. The lesson to voters will be clearer than ever. Political momentum is on Zanu PF’s side. Yet the government may not be able to brazen it out until next March. It is riven by internal disputes.

Source: ZWNEWS.COM