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Two Million Face Starvation in Zimbabwe

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Original Post Date: 2002-01-06 Time: 12:30:47  Posted By: Jan

[Isn’t it funny. The lying Marxist, Robert Mugabe kept whining about how white farmers were stealing the wealth of the country and exploiting the downtrodden. Funny, now that he’s kicking them off the land the entire country is imploding, chaos is erupting and the country is going, in one bold move right into the Dark Ages. Maybe those white scum actually contributed more than he would ever care to admit? Jan Lamprecht]

Zimbabwe Disintegrates – 2 Million Face Starvation In 2-3 Weeks

From Cathy Buckle

Dear Family and Friends,

Less than 3 years ago Zimbabwe was a major regional exporter of food but

in January 2002 we are begging international donors for US$100 million of

urgent food aid. This is needed to feed an estimated 2 million Zimbabweans

who experts say will face starvation within the next three weeks. After

almost 2 years of the most extreme policies, harassment, intimidation and

murder of our country’s farmers and workers, we have now run out of food.

There are no reserves of the staple maize meal left and 95% of our

commercial farms have been gazetted for state seizure.

The Zimbabwe government this week began publishing the names of people who

have been allocated plots of land on the newly seized farms. By yesterday,

over 5000 names had been listed and less than 20 of those people have been

given Large Scale plots. Most have been given barely enough land on which

to support themselves let alone grow a surplus to feed 13 million people.

Included in these first lists of people whom we are told are “landless

peasants” are the Mayor of the City of Chitungwiza; the Deputy Minister of

Transport; the MP’s of Mutoko, Buhera and Hurungwe. Also benefitting are a

number of journalists from the state run Herald newspaper including the

Deputy Editor, the Business Editor, the Features Editor and the Health

Reporter.

I stood dumfounded in a Marondera supermarket yesterday morning looking at

a bag of 4 apples priced at Z$320. I could not afford to buy them and

chose instead an Z$80 weekly newspaper whose front page story is of the

latest government pay rises. All Zimbabwe’s uniformed forces have been

awarded a 100% pay rise effective from the 1st of January. This includes

police, army, air force, prison service workers and war veterans (the

latter now fall under the Ministry of Defence).

Stringing a few facts together paints a bleak but blatantly obvious

picture of a government willing to do anything to stay in power, a

government who does not care about her people: Presidential elections are

due in 8-10 weeks time; 95% of farms have been re-allocated to “landless

peasants”; uniformed forces and war veterans are awarded a 100% pay rise;

2 million people are less than a month away from starvation; citizenship

laws have been changed; 300 000 farm workers are about to be jobless and

destitute; electoral and media laws are about to be changed; 5 Judges have

left the benches in the last eight months; 100 000 people have been

displaced internally because of violence; 90 people have been murdered for

their political beliefs.

It is an abysmal situation and we are completely powerless to do anything

about it. We cannot turn to the police or army. We cannot look to the

courts. We cannot petition our MP’s. Next week when when the new Public

Order and Security Bill passes through parliament we will not even be able

to speak out any longer. We cannot look to our regional neighbours for

assistance because they have decided that it is not politically correct to

condemn a dictator. Even when the currencies of massively powerful

countries like South Africa have dropped to lowest ever levels because of

the crisis in Zimbabwe, their leaders continue to pussy foot around for

fear of being labelled racists or colonialists. I can only say God Help

us.

This week two farm workers were beaten to death in Wedza by militant farm

invaders. I have been unable to get their names but grieve with their

family and friends. I hope that next week I will still be legally allowed

to write this letter but am not optimistic. As always, my thanks for your

support and encouragement.

With love,

Cathy.