WHY IS ZIMBABWE A HELL ON EARTH?

You don’t hear much about Zimbabwe, do you?

There’s not much news about why this once prosperous African country has became an insane asylum, with 80% unemployment (no, that’s not a typo) and its formerly vibrant agricultural sector a dystopian mess.

In case you’re wondering how this could have taken place, under the tender mercies of its former elected leader and now virtual dictator, robert mugabe, let me post the following excerpts from Frank Chickowore’s article for Cape Town, South Africa’s News 24:

Masvingo – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, 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 Zimbabweans that his government would create more than 2.2 million jobs.

However, latest statistics indicated that Zimbabwe had a formal unemployment rate of around 80%.

Addressing his supporters at a rally at Mucheke Stadium in Masvingo, Mugabe said Zimbabwean 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.

“I encourage you to keep chickens, grow mushroom and keep quails instead of folding your arms and saying there are no jobs. You have to be entrepreneurial, be enterprising.”

Mugabe’s remarks drew criticism from MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu who accused the nonagenarian of lacking seriousness.

Mugabe also urged Zimbabweans to do more fish farming and warned new black farmers and traditional chiefs that they should not allow displaced white farmers to come back “and till the land”.

“We chased away these white farmers a long time and we don’t want a situation where you bring them back so that they work on the land while you (black farmers) are sleeping in the comfort of your homes in Harare or Bulawayo, No,” said Mugabe.

In 2000, Mugabe drove out the White farmers, on the (justifiable) premise that the land had been taken from Zimbabwe’s indigenous Black people. But with no transitional period during which Black farmers could be educated to the farming techniques that made Zimbabwe “the breadbasket of the region”.

Now, instead of exporting farming produce to other countries, it is imported.  The farming industry is a complete, utter mess.

And the 93 year old Mugabe’s solution?  Be enterprising.  What does that mean?  Heard cattle, get yourself a few chickens and farm fish.

Yep, that will quickly bring back the Zimbabwean economy.

Robert Mugabe was, at one time, a towering anti-colonialist leader.  He spent 12 years in prison for his beliefs and his actions.  He was instrumental in Rhodesia gaining its independence, and becoming today’s Zimbabwe.

Now look at what he has become.

If Robert Mugabe died 20 years ago, they’d have built statues of him.

Now?  They should declare that day a national holiday.