From: tnkaseke@violet.uwaterloo.ca (Tamuka Kaseke)
Subject: Re: IPS:Zimbabwe: Economy going through turbulent times 
Originator: tnkaseke@violet.uwaterloo.ca
Keywords: Ian Smith 
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:33:53 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.030541.17769@gagme.chi.il.us> nrswart@phonon.uwaterloo.ca
(Nicholas R Swart) writes:
>In article <1992Sep25.030541.17769@gagme.chi.il.us> barnhart@gagme.chi.il.us (Mr Aaron Barnhart) writes:
>>Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved.  Permission to re-
>>print within 7 days of original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.
>>
>..
>>Title: ZIMBABWE: ECONOMY GOING THROUGH TURBULENT TIMES
>..
>>
>>harare, sep 17 (ips) -- since 1990 zimbabwe's economy has been
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>>under severe pressure from the harsh winds of an economic reform
>>programme (sap) and a devastating drought.
>...

>Correction. Ever since Mugabe took over Zimbabwe's economy has been...
>...
>>''our economy is really going through turbulent times. day
>>in and day out, the economy is being threatened from all angles
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>Correction. ...being threatened by a useless, incompetent government

I agree with you.
...
>>
>>more than 10,000 civil servants are to be retrenched during
>>the sap's implementation period to trim a bloated bureaucracy.

>Bloated AND corrupt.
>...

Yes there is a lot of corruption in the current government. Would you 
say all the ministers are corrupt too???

>>
>>the agricultural sector, the mainstay of zimbabwe's economy,
>>has been hardest hit by the drought. output has fallen by 35
>>percent in real terms.

>The agricultural sector would have been in much better shape despite
>the drought if Mugabe hadn't expropriated some of Africa's finest
>and wisest farmers.

I wonder where he sent them to, or is it that they cannot stand a black
government at all hence they fled the country? I guess thats why they 
(the "finest and wisest farmers") are calling for Ian Smith's return to 
power so that they can continue to exploit the sons of the soil of 
Zimbabwe. I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN - once was 
too much for us.

>>
>>''today zimbabwe is facing a power crisis which has already
>>posed a big threat to industry and will result in the
>>retrenchment of thousands of workers in the next 12 months'',
>>says moore. (end/ips/az/oa/apc/92)

>...and the only man who can save the country is Ian Smith. Like it or not,
>he has more integrity and intelligence than all other politicians in
>Zimbabwe put together.

Here is the joke of the century. How could you say that Ian Smith is 
the only one who can save the country? I am sure that there are a lot 
of people with more integrity and intelligence ( like myself) than that
one eyed b_______ Ian Smith. All he knows is taking care of WHITES like
yourself and incacerating blacks like myself. (for your information I 
suffered at Ian Smith's hands so dont give me b___ s___ about his 
integrity). All we need are Zimbabweans who are dedicated to Zimbabwe 
and who are accountable to the people they represent (I am sorry that 
this excludes you!!).
We agree that the government has failed but we can never allow Smith
to return instead he should be tried by an authentic government for the 
war crimes he committed. This government is in cohoot with Ian Smith
since they have never tried to undo the terrible things that he did to 
the sons and daughters of the soil of Zimbabwe.
>Nicholas

Tamuka Kaseke
Statistics and Actuarial Science Dept.
University of Waterloo                     tnkaseke@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca