Comments on: Zimbabwe rounds up destitute street people

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Displaced Zimbabweans shafted again

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:20:37 +0000

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By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Church responds to Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:04:21 +0000

[...] Church responds to Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown By StatGuy In the social and economic crisis brought on by government oppression, and now compounded by hyperinflation and price controls, even Zimbabweans with jobs are having difficulty buying food and other basic necessities. People are turning to the church for help, and the church is responding. Ray Motsi, pastor of Central Baptist Church in Bulawayo, says his church members really didn't have a choice in responding to the needs of their fellow countrymen: the needs walked through the door one Sunday. It happened two years ago, after Operation Clean up the Trash, when the government demolished homes that were allegedly built illegally. Those left without a home or a job were forced back to the villages with no way to support themselves. [...]

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Price controls: A scheme to seize Zimbabwe’s private sector?

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:22:42 +0000

[...] Price controls: A scheme to seize Zimbabwe’s private sector? By StatGuy Mugabe’s threat to nationalise "profiteering" firms supports the theory that the price reduction campaign is merely a means to take over the country’s private business sector in the same way that productive farms were seized and urban poor were driven out. THE current government drive against soaring prices is the same template of harassment, bullying and threats the State unleashed against commercial farmers in 2000 under the guise of land reform. [...]

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Mugabe praises political opposition

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:17:28 +0000

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By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Can Zimbabwe’s economy get any worse? Just watch

Sun, 27 May 2007 23:29:29 +0000

[...] Can Zimbabwe’s economy get any worse? Just watch By StatGuy Zimbabwe’s economy nose-dived after President Robert Mugabe sanctioned brutal and illegal confiscation of white-owned farms for redistribution to cronies. The new proprietors proved abysmal failures as farmers, and Zimbabwe was quickly transformed from the bread basket of southern Africa into a basket case. The people were soon forced to rely on foreign charity for food. The economic free-fall into hyperinflation, mass unemployment, and widespread poverty is largely attributable to the land seizures. [...]

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » African bishop dumps on conservative Anglicans

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:18:31 +0000

[...] I won’t go through Bp Mwamba’s “liberal voice”, The Anglican Church in Southern Africa, except to say that it doesn’t appear to me to contain any inflammatory misrepresentations like those tossed in under the conservative voice. (But perhaps liberals may take a different view.) Oh—and, whereas Robert Mugabe was quoted agreeing with the conservative stance, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was quoted in support of the liberal. Needless to say, Abp Tutu carries a better moral cachet than the villainous and sadistic Mugabe. [...]

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Archbishop Pius Ncube: Mugabes most defiant opponent

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:49:39 +0000

[...] Archbishop Pius Ncube: Mugabes most defiant opponent By StatGuy Pius Ncube, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, has engaged in a long and tiring struggle to help Zimbabwe's poor and suffering in the face of intimidation at home and flagging interest abroad. President Robert Mugabe’s most determined and outspoken critic, he continues to campaign for human rights despite official condemnation and death threats. It has been seven years since Mugabe triggered the decline of his country by ordering "war veterans" to invade white-owned farms after he lost a constitutional referendum. As Mugabe seized control of the judiciary and the press, rigged elections, demolished shanty towns – making 700,000 people destitute – and starved his political opponents, Archbishop Ncube came to prominence as the archetypal turbulent priest, Mugabe's most implacably defiant domestic opponent, vowing to continue to speak the truth even though his name was rumoured to be on a secret "death list". [...]

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » The disturbing odyssey of Mugabe’s right-hand man

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:15:02 +0000

[...] One of his first projects after being appointed chief of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) early in 2005 was the infamous Operation Murambatsvina [Operation Drive Out the Filth], which sent soldiers to destroy the homes of over 700,000 people. Mutasa presented Murambatsvina as a regeneration and renewal scheme to "clean up" urban areas. But most people who lost their homes were opposition supporters, and nearly a year-and-a-half later virtually nothing has been done to provide new homes for the estimated 700,000 to a million people who watched their houses being bulldozed, sledgehammered and set ablaze. [...]

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Housing shortage in Zimbabwe? Believe it!

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:20:06 +0000

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By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Housing shortage in Zimbabwe? Don’t believe it!

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:04:51 +0000

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By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Zimbabwe effectively under martial law

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:39:52 +0000

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By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Two tyrants ally against tyranny

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:40:36 +0000

[...] Two tyrants ally against tyranny By StatGuy Venezuelan dictator President Hugo Chavez and the last dictator in Europe, Belarussian president Alexander Lukashenko, have met together and proclaimed an alliance opposed to (can you guess?) dictatorship. Reuters refers to Mr Lukashenko as a "fellow maverick" of Mr Chavez. That's priceless. Kinda like calling Robert Mugabe a "fellow maverick" of Idi Amin. "The number of countries in the world which resist the forces of dictatorship is growing," said Lukashenko, standing alongside him [Chavez] at the military academy. [...]