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Africa Subsaharan
Zimbabwe: 'Go and Herd Cattle,' Mugabe, 93, Tells Unemployed Zim Youth
2017-07-02
[All Africa] Zim-bob-wean President Bob Muggsy Mugabe
Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...
, 93, on Friday told unemployed youths to "go and herd cattle" in the rural areas amid a critical shortage of jobs in the southern African country.

During his election campaign of the 2013 polls, Mugabe promised Zim-bob-weans that his government would create more than 2.2 million jobs.

However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
 latest statistics indicated that Zim-bob-we had a formal unemployment rate of around 80%.

Addressing his supporters at a rally at Mucheke Stadium in Masvingo, Mugabe said Zim-bob-wean youths who had no jobs should look for ideas so that they became entrepreneurs.

"We always hear youths from the (opposition Movement for Democratic Change) MDC saying that they do not have jobs. I say to them come to me and I will laugh at them first before telling them to go and herd cattle," said Mugabe speaking in the vernacular Shona language.
Posted by:Fred

#12  No cattle? That is the trivial case or herding.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-07-02 21:28  

#11  "Cattle?" "What cattle?" I didn't know they had any cattle, I was under the impression they ate them all since their farming was less than successful!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance   2017-07-02 17:35  

#10  Well, I have to go with Zimbob on this one.

Only tell it to the snowflakes and sissies.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-07-02 14:39  

#9  *bleep* farmin. I'm gonna rustle me some cowses.
-- FbH
Posted by: SteveS   2017-07-02 14:35  

#8  This reminds me; whatever happened to Farmin B. Hard?

It got to hard.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-07-02 12:45  

#7  Zim-bob-we had a formal unemployment rate of around 80%

This reminds me; whatever happened to Farmin B. Hard?
Posted by: PBMcL   2017-07-02 12:42  

#6  Same way in frontier Florida MM.
Posted by: Shipman    2017-07-02 11:21  

#5  Not to be confused with Chicago, where the pols wink at moving Capone's booze cartel drugs. Keeps the proles busy with a job.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-02 08:38  

#4  Furst Step. Catch a goodly number of cows.

Ironically, how it was often done. Read Lonesome Dove for a realistic example of how it usually went down. Wild Bill Hickok also did some of that. No, it's not rustling if the cows are not branded.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-07-02 07:54  

#3  Herd! Dang it! Herd!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance   2017-07-02 04:23  

#2  Kind of hard for Zim-bob-wean youths to heard cattle when there are far more youths than cattle.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance   2017-07-02 01:37  

#1  Furst Step. Catch a goodly number of cows.
Posted by: Shipman    2017-07-02 00:19  

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