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Original Post Date: 2011-01-06 Time: 08:00:02 Posted By: The BeardedMan
Howzit
So when we read of the army besieging shopping centres or ‘educating’ the rural dwellers in their voting plans, this is Mugabe using the army to foment fear and oppression.
Mugabe uses the army, the air force, the police and the CIO as his own personal security force. I would assume that anyone within the armed forces who resists the instruction to ‘represent’ Mugabe are dealt with quickly and with extreme prejudice.
The soldiers, who are moving in groups, are interacting with the villagers and sometimes join in the social activities of the villagers.
Andrew Muchenge, a villager in Domboshava, which falls under Goromonzi North Constituency, said people were living in constant fear of the soldiers.
‘We don’t understand why the soldiers are moving everyday in our area. I don’t know whether we are in war situation. The soldiers are not beating us but their presence here is causing a lot of alarm and panic amongst the people. They are also attending village funerals. This is very unwelcome as we are just peasant farmers, who want to go about our farming peacefully.‘
One thing uniformed personnel in Zimbabwe are not, and that is part of society. Their alacrity at siding with Mugabe has divorced them from the population and reality.
“The deployment of soldiers started last month when the Ministry of Defence Forces embarked on the programme resulting in the deployment of soldiers in Gokwe, Masvingo Bikita and Chipinge districts.
Most of the rural areas that were strongholds of ZANU PF were grabbed by the MDC in the 2008 elections as the rural electorate switched their vote to support the MDC. MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai has denounced the deployment of the soldiers in the rural areas countrywide.“
“The Cost of Living (COL) in Zimbabwe has shot up and is now near the US$500 mark
The Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) says the Cost of Living for a family of five is now US$499.96 for December, last year. The COL had shot up mainly due to escalating prices of bread, fuel, fresh milk and tea leaves, the CCZ said. In an interview, a senior CCZ official said : “The cost of living has gone up to US$499.96 for a family of five. The food basket has gone up to US$144.19 from US$142.77 in December, 2010. The items that went up include tea leaves, bread, fresh milk, and fuel.“He said there could be other huge increases later this year as Zimbabwe grapples with more problems. Fuel went up by an average of eight cents last week leading to various other increases including transport costs for people coming to work for 2011.
This, he said, thus made a mockery of the so-called low inflation now conservatively pegged at about 5 percent in Zimbabwe.
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The one hundred trillion Zimbabwe dollar bill, which at 100 followed by 12 zeros is the highest denomination, now sells for $5, depending on its condition. That bill and others – among them millions, billions and trillions, were abandoned nearly two years ago, when the American dollar became legal tender in the hopes of killing off the record inflation that caused all those zeros.
“I had to have one,” said Janice Waas on a visit to the northwestern resort town of Victoria Falls. “The numbers are mind bending.” She got her so-called “Zimdollar” in pristine condition, from a street vendor who usually sells African carvings. “It’s perfect if you like puzzles, calculus and things like Rubik’s Cube,” she said. Janice’s husband Thomas Waas, a physicist and engineer from Germany, said if the population of the world is 7 billion people, every single person could be a given thousands of old Zimbabwe dollars from this single 100 trillion note. Janice Waas said Westerners were buying the bills for their curiosity value. An Australian wanted one to display in his local bar back home.“Some of the bearer notes that I have, I have laminated and I use them as book marks – I have a habit of reading a number of books at a time and so need a few bookmarks…
I find it sad, yet uplifting, that foreigners should be attracted by the numeric anomaly of Zimbabwean bank notes.
“Street vendors said visitors had been so intrigued by the Zimbabwe bills that they were now running out of them, two years after a power sharing deal between longtime ruler President Robert Mugabe and the former opposition leader, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, made the old currency redundant.
Visitors from countries familiar with hyperinflation, such as the Congo and other impoverished states in the region and in South America, showed less interest in the highly marked bills.
Instead, most bought curios and artifacts, said vendor Lloyd Phiri, speaking on his mobile phone in Victoria Falls.“
Reports last week said the identification processing centre based at KG Six Army headquarters was gutted on New Year's Day, bringing business to a halt. Mapanga said the report was a lie. He said the building had only experienced an electric fault and “everything is perfectly in order”.
“There is no story here. It's a lie,” he said, accusing some journalists in South Africa and the Western media of always trying to paint a bad picture of Zimbabwe.“
I don’t think that there is any point in arguing one way or the other since there is no proof available either way.
MDC politician Piniel Denga, member of Parliament for the Mbare constituency where the attack took place, warned that there could be more trouble in his area and other MDC strongholds with a constitutional referendum and national elections in prospect.
“The police are working in cahoots with ZANU PF,” Denga said. “This is an issue that we need to deal with to make sure police do not harass people on behalf of the party in the next election.”He said he was personally harrassed by ZANU PF youths in Mbare when he went to inaugurate boreholes sunk using his constituency development funds.
“ZANU PF believe that the police, the army, the air force and the secret police are arms of ZANU PF – and therefore anything that they do in the name of ‘security’ is immune from prosecution.
How can the party that lost the election almost three years ago act as if they are still the ruling party?
Are their actions not punishable in court under the collective description of a coup – albeit an extremely quiet one?
“The injured driver, Stanford Bote, told VOA he went to Mbare for a mobilization exercise ahead of the party congress expected in May, when his vehicle was mobbed by a group of youths wearing regalia of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party.
Bote said the youths told him and his fellow MDC members that their party was banned in Mbare though the suburb is a stronghold of the former opposition party. They then started throwing stones, smashing the vehicle's windows and injuring his left arm.
He said when he reported the case at the Mbare Police Station, officers told him to bring the suspects to the station. VOA was unable to obtain comment from police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena.
The ZANU PF chairman for Harare province, Amos Midzi, refused to comment saying he had no knowledge of the alleged attack.“
So now the victim is supposed to bring the suspects to the police station? What idiocy!
‘debvhu
Source: http://thebeardedman.blogspot.com/2011/01/thursday-6th-january-2011.html