Posted on 11/22/2004 7:07:00 AM PST by dead
AN estimated 70 percent of Zimbabwe's working population, or 3,4 million people, have left the country to escape its political and economic crisis, a regional church group said on Friday.
About 1,2 million are believed to be in South Africa, making them one of the largest groups of foreigners in the country, the SA-registered Solidarity Peace Trust said in a report.
"An estimated 25 to 30 percent of Zimbabwe's population has left the nation. Out of five million potentially productive adults, 3,4 million are outside Zimbabwe. This is a staggering 60 to 70 percent of productive adults," the report said.
Zimbabwe is mired in its worst crisis since independence in 1980, with unemployment estimated at 70 percent and inflation in triple digits.
Critics say the seizure of white-owned commercial farms has badly hit the agricultural sector, and accuse the government of cracking down on political opposition.
"The loss of skills has impacted on health and education in Zimbabwe... many professionals such as teachers, nurses, policemen and artisans have been driven out by political events and are living like vagrants in South Africa," the report said.
Catholic Bishop Kevin Dowling, of Rustenberg, said he feared the exodus from Zimbabwe could accelerate ahead of parliamentary elections next March.
If Zimbabwe approves a bill to ban foreign human rights groups and block overseas funding for local activists, the crackdown on opposition could gain momentum and drive even more people away, he said.
"The climate of oppression could be ratcheted up with impunity, and there is a possibility we will get more refugees."
The report urged SA to make it easier for Zimbabwean fugitives to gain asylum in the country.
Cape Argus
How about funding, training and arming the adults and sending them back in to reclaim their land?
The Zimbabwe government must have spoken to liberal Democrats about how to increase government revenues and grow the economy.
Socialists/Communists never do. And some of them have the gall to be surprised by the end results of their schemes.
Be ready for another genocide. They already went through the mass civilian disarmament stage, now they take the rest of the property owner's assets, next they take their lives.
Oh my - I don't see any easy, or peaceful, solution coming anytime soon.
Sad to say, it seems this was all the predictable results of the government's actions . . .
you reap what you sow - pun intended.
FYI.
Jimmy Carter: Zimbabwe calling. Zimbabwe calling. The revolution isn't going quite as planned and we need your help
Paging John Galt....
Atlas is shrugging, and the looters are going to starve.
Nope, that would be against the basic principles of the Dictator Protection Union, aka the UN.
I suppose white people are supposed to get them out of this mess now? I bet they wouldn't object if wealthy white people sent them "aid".
If they want to make their own world, then they should help themselves, period, and stop looking for handouts.
Yeah. Soros, the Hienz-Kerry family and the Perot family should be able to handle this whole thing with their pocket change.
You know? I think Charlie Manson was correct in his vision. He just had the wrong continent.
You forgot about the 'exporting of revolution'. It also fits in the pattern:
From http://www.neoperspectives.com/johnkerry.htm
Communism is the greatest evil that man has ever known. It is responsible for more than 100 millions deaths (more than all the wars in history combined), millions and millions of refugees and the subjugation and slavery of over 2 billion people since WWII. Communist regimes always follow a similar pattern. A Communist regime has never been elected, so first Communists must orchestrate a revolution, often with the support of funding from preexisting Communist regime. Next, Communists dissolve private property, nationalize media and begin a brutal purge of political prisoners and the upper classes. To conduct it's class warfare and maintain control of the revolting people, the state will militarize, establish a large secret police presence, and create horrific labor/reeducation camps. The economy collapses, failed farm policies result in starvation, refugees flee, and the government begins to export Communist revolution abroad. How far the government is willing to push the Communist philosophy will directly equate with the severity of these events and the suffering of their people. This exact pattern has come to pass in the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, North Korea, Angola, Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Cuba. A few countries on this list have not experienced the true hell of Communism because the governments either didn't last long enough to take full root, or total Communist policies were not pursued in earnest.
And a few wonder why they went from a food-exporting nation to near starvation in a matter of a few years.
One hundred million dead on the march to the worker's paradise. Heck, you have to break a few eggs....
The "sun people" returning to their destructive hedonistic ways destroy all hope for their future generations to achieve prosperity... all while worshipping at the alter of the "communist" ideal....
Way to go guys... enjoy the quagmire.
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