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Zimbabwe's Mugabe reshuffles cabinet | |
2007-02-08 | |
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has reshuffled his Cabinet, firing his finance minister and sidelining the agriculture minister who has presided over six years of shrinking harvests in the wake of the seizure of land from white farmers, the Herald newspaper reported Wednesday.
The Herald said Mumbengegwi would be expected to work with the central bank chief to "consolidate" Zimbabwe's economic turnaround. Zimbabwe has the world's highest annual rate of inflation -- 1,281.1 percent -- and critical shortages of foreign currency, fuel and some basic commodities. The Zimbabwean president blames the crisis on Western sanctions. But critics point to Mugabe's policies, including the land seizures launched in 2000. The farm seizures, touted as a way of reversing colonial-era imbalances in land ownership, have been accompanied by a clampdown on the opposition, the free press and rights groups. | |
Posted by:Fred |
#10 I blame it on the paved roads we didn't do, and the boreholes and dams we didnt do either. South Africa has all that, and they're heading to the same destination Zimbabwe is. It's just that their handbasket is taking a more leisurely route. |
Posted by: Pappy 2007-02-08 21:23 |
#9 Anyone in charge gets three envelopes. Each to be open when khaka hits the fan. Envelope one reads - blame everything on your predecessor. Envelope two reads - reorganize. Envelope three reads - prepare three envelopes. Bob's opened envelope number two. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-02-08 16:51 |
#8 I blame it on the paved roads we didn't do, and the boreholes and dams we didnt do either. They would really have had something to fuck up then. Why fix it, when you can break it some more? |
Posted by: rhodesiafever 2007-02-08 16:30 |
#7 Farmin B. Hard for Agriculture Minister. I down wit dat... |
Posted by: Farmin B. Hard 2007-02-08 16:22 |
#6 Absolutely perfect graphic too, Fred! |
Posted by: BA 2007-02-08 13:38 |
#5 |
Posted by: doc 2007-02-08 10:33 |
#4 Later in the debate the Junior Minister for being frightened by any kind of farm machinery, challenged the Under-Secretary of State for hiding from Terence Rattigan to produce the current year's trading figures, as supplied by the Department of stealing packets of bandages from the self-service counter at Timothy Whites and selling them again at a considerable profit. |
Posted by: Spot 2007-02-08 10:04 |
#3 the Harvard-educated economist is rumored to have clashed with the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Gideon Gono in recent months over how to resolve Zimbabwe's deepening economic crisis. Hot Damn, finaly somebody with BRAINS, A Hahvahd Grad no less. Listen to the Boy ZimBob. |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-02-08 09:31 |
#2 The farm seizures, touted as a way of reversing colonial-era imbalances in land ownership, have been accompanied by a clampdown on the opposition, the free press and rights groups. Not to mention that those same farms are no longer, you know, growing enough food to feed the country. That is, if they're growing anything other than weeds. |
Posted by: Ptah 2007-02-08 08:27 |
#1 Farmin' B. Hard for Agriculture Minister. |
Posted by: Jackal 2007-02-08 06:57 |