$200,000 a day job anyone?

**King Cnvt** · 31 July 2007, 19:33

Didn't they kick out (and kill) the white farmers?

**thunderlizard** · 31 July 2007, 20:07

Sort of, but it's more complicated than that.

I've heard that toilet paper is only slightly cheaper than its surface area in banknotes.

**wendigo100** · 31 July 2007, 20:55

Originally posted by Diver

What happened?

The locals thought they could run things better than the colonials. They seem to be as wrong as you could possibly get.

**Ardesco** · 31 July 2007, 21:37

But... WHAT A HOUSING MARKET THEY MUST HAVE!!!!!

**Diver** · 1 August 2007, 04:30

Originally posted by Ardesco

But... WHAT A HOUSING MARKET THEY MUST HAVE!!!!!

One correspondent recently told the BBC News website that one candle can cost twice the official government wage for a farm worker, while the price tag for a single banana is 15 times what she paid seven years ago for a four-bedroom house.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6922441.stm

**Pondlife** · 1 August 2007, 06:44

Originally posted by Ardesco

But... WHAT A HOUSING MARKET THEY MUST HAVE!!!!!

When there's blood on the streets ...

**The Lone Gunman** · 1 August 2007, 06:50

Why is this in Light Relief? It is a very serious subject.

Most of Zimbabwes troubles can be laid firmly at the feet of one man though his nationals seem deaf to the idea.

Zim used to be one of, if not, the most agriculturaly advanced and productive in Africa (Hectare for Hectare) producing food crops for local consumption and cash crops to sell abroad. This also made the Country economically viable and brought in foreign currency which helped stabalise the local currency.

With the land reform act all the commercial farms were carved up and given to local people, either as bungs to high ranking officials or as incentives to ex soldiers of the revolution (though many are far to young to have been involved).
The people who now own the land either have no idea how to farm it or are farming for subsistance purposes only. This means there is no surplus of food crops or any cash crops at all.
Mugabes consistant abuses have also earned sanctions for the Country which is not helping at all.

This goes further, but that is a good enough place to stop.

**The Lone Gunman** · 1 August 2007, 08:26

Originally posted by zeitghost

Come on, LG, get with it.

It's all Whitey's fault.

The Black Fascist has said so.

Sorry, my mistake.
It is all the fault of the imperriallist pigs in the UK imposing sanctions and casting spells so the land is infertile. Freezing our assets and such.

**richard-af** · 1 August 2007, 08:41

How long before the (still alive) farmers are invited back to rescue the country's agriculture?

$200,000 a day job anyone?