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Anglican Calls for Calm as Zimbabwe Nears Economic Collapse

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Original Post Date: 2002-05-11 Time: 23:44:33  Posted By: Jan

http://www.zenit.org/english/

Date: 2002-05-09

MUTARE, Zimbabwe, MAY 9, 2002 (Zenit.org).- With Zimbabwe nearing economic

collapse, Anglican Bishop Sebastian Bakare of Manicaland appealed for calm

and expressed concern for the suffering citizenry.

The bishop criticized those who, even when seeing “the weeping caused by

the pain of the violence suffered, do not condemn the abuses or, worse

yet, deny them,” the Misna missionary agency reported.

Opposition leaders assailed the decision by Robert Mugabe(180)´s government to

confirm the results of the controversial March elections.

Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said he will

call a general strike if Mugabe does not hold new elections, a threat the

Zimbabwean president seems to have shrugged off.

A political protest by the ZCTU workers union 10 days after the elections

met with little popular support. Most Zimbabweans seem to be more

concerned about basic survival.

This country of 11.3 million struggles with drought and the effects of a

disastrous land-reform program under which so-called war veterans seized

the property of some whites.

The unemployment rate is 70%, inflation 113%. The nation has $4.5 billion

in foreign debt, and is $118 million behind in payments to the

International Monetary Fund.