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Published Date: 25 October 2008
By ANGUS SHAW
FRESH efforts are being made to break the power deadlock in Zimbabwe after the true scope of a growing food crisis emerged.
Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), will attend a rescheduled summit on Monday to haggle with Robert Mugabe, the president and leader of Zanu-PF, over powerful ministries in a proposed new cabinet.

This is despite MDC claims that Mr Mugabe's government refuses to issue Mr Tsvangirai a passport.

Without political agreement, Zimbabwe has virtually no government and is tipping into chaos.

Inflation is officially 231 million per cent. Food, fuel and most other basic goods are scarce: some villagers are surviving on roots and wild fruits. Near Harare on Thursday, reporters saw women scrabbling to pick up a few ears of corn spilled on the road from a passing lorry.

Health authorities have reported 27 deaths from cholera in the past month, with hundreds more cases of cholera and diarrhoea from sewage-contaminated water being treated across the country amid collapsing power, water and sewage services.





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  • Last Updated: 24 October 2008 9:57 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Steven M.,

Salmondland 25/10/2008 00:37:35
Typical labour lies. If Scotland was independent everything would be great.
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suchaparcelofrogues,

Scotland 25/10/2008 08:22:36
And the so called freedom loving Western democracies sit idly by and do nothing.
What happened to the free the Iraqi people from tyranny spirit? or the free the poor repressed people of Afganistan spirit?
What a crock of contemptible corrupt self serving vile lying scum our governments are
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25/10/2008 08:32:19
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Media 1,

cape town 25/10/2008 12:05:59
Exiled Scotsman

As long as black Africans are expected to run democracies and economies, there will always be problems in their societies.
The black people who make it, do so because they embrace the white man and his systems (some will disagree)but if you use a bus, a train, a taxi, a computer, a plane, a car or even a kettle, you have embraced the white mans world. And the things that are not from the white man will come from the Chinese, the Japanese, the Koreans, the Indians - but never from Africa.

If you look at the Bushmen or the Massai tribe you find a highly developed people with highly developed systems. They are doctors of the land, they are scientists of the land, they are pharmacists of the land, they are conservationists of the land, they are hunters and they are peaceful. This is the African in their element, this is the African the Europeans found and had we left them to be they would be thriving as tribal people. They would not have cars, planes and electricity because their instinct is to live the land the way they always have - there is nothing to improve upon the land, it is as perfect as nature intended it.

Whites are different! You can see it from their villages - America, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa etc
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oder,

Scotland 25/10/2008 16:35:22
once Mugabe has gone things will hopefully improve! Zanu - PF will have the choice undo what Mugabe has done! or continue with Zimbabwe`s destruction,they waged war on the then Rhodesia one of the most advanced countries in Southern Africa to turn it into the hell hole of Zimbabwe,to the embarrassment of the international community and the utter shame of black Africa that supports this tyrant, the belief that the west wants democracy in Iraq/Afghanistan is totally undermined by the paralytic fear that the west has about intervention in Zimbabwe! or anywhere in Africa the fear of being called colonialists by the so called African freedom fighters turned tyrants who have killed more of their own people than the Europeans ever did! prove`s the point "for evil to succeed good men do nothing" all the western leaders Bush, Brown,etc. all good men!

 

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