Zim Ping.
This guy thinks he’s going to get land back in Zim? Good luck with THAT.
/hopelessly optimistic or optimistically hopeless?
Sometimes, you should listen to your nagging wife.
Oh, but it can get worse. Much worse. The road Mugabe is still stubbornly on leads to famine and cannibalism.
The real difficulty is that after Mugabe goes the thugs that ate the country will still be there, ever more ravenous and with less around them to steal. The "war veterans" are a sham - the war was over before the vast majority of them were even born. They're looters, period, and there isn't anyone or anything to stop them.
The economy can be saved, but not under the current regime. What it will take is what it took in Weimar Germany - a new currency backed by foreign loans and an end to the insanity of printing money to solve the very inflation that it feeds.
Building back the agricultural surplus is a project that will take years and more likely generations. The infrastructure is gone, beginning with the sine qua non of farming, a respect for property rights. There is no seed grain, no money for loans, and the equipment has fallen apart from disuse and lack of maintenance. The land itself has not been maintained. Not only the landowners but their trained workers have been scattered.
But what really killed Zimbabwe is the politics of anti-colonialism and racial hatred. I say "killed" because Zim isn't a dying country, it's a dead one. Individuals within it may survive but as long as those politics remain Zimbabwe will not.
Why isn’t he sat on his arse, blaming US imperialism and waiting for food aid to be distributed?
</sarcasm>