Zimbabwe

I wouldn't want to live here. With all of the recent "developments", I'd think it's rather unsafe... :sick:

I like to live life on the edge. Knife edge, that is.

Mar_zim might.

My interest in exotic parasites and nasty diseases is more one of idle curiosity rather than a desire to experience them personally.

I believe they have free money there.

free monies? no wai!

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Originally Posted by kregg

free monies? no wai!

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Yeah, wai... but it's not all fun and games when 4,000 Zimbabwe dollars gets you one lousy beer...

http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image..._beer_cost.jpg

Can you imagine trying to carry that much around with you just to get a beer?

Or just to get a loaf of bread?

Or the amount of money you have to carry just to buy the wheelbarrow to carry the money to buy a loaf of bread?

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TBH the idea doesn't look too bad...

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Originally Posted by kregg

TBH the idea doesn't look too bad...

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Okay... think of it this way then... if you had to take every single piece of money in that picture to a shop in order to buy a packet of airwaves. (chewing-gum)

Man, that would be awesome!! I'd look so rich!! :afrog:

But you'd need a truck to be able to afford enough gum to sort out the halitosis.

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Originally Posted by zaza

But you'd need a truck to be able to afford enough gum to sort out the halitosis.

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:lol: :lol: :lol:

I'd rather live in SLOUGH for God's sake!

And to give you folks how bad Slough is, here is a photo which I will not post in IMG tags (for once) because it's too big.

I don't see anything wrong in that picture... :confused:

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath

In a day, those businesses would need an entire room to store all their earnings. :|

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Originally Posted by BillGeek

I don't see anything wrong in that picture... :confused:

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Yeah, reminded me of Melbourne, though it looked like a sunny day there as opposed to the rubbish they endure down south :D

Where's the "Where's that?" option?

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Originally Posted by timeshifter

Where's the "Where's that?" option?

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Right next to South Australia if remotely interested in Melbourne, Zimbabwe is just above South Africa, and Napier is in Hawke's Bay ... though that's not important at the moment. :thumb:

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Originally Posted by AceRimmer

Right next to South Australia if remotely interested in Melbourne, Zimbabwe is just above South Africa, and Napier is in Hawke's Bay ... though that's not important at the moment. :thumb:

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Before trying to explain where Victoria is... Explain where Australia is on a world map. :lol:

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Before trying to explain where Victoria is... Explain where Australia is on a world map. :lol:

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It's just above Tasmania and to the left of New Zealand down toward the bottom of the world map.

Stop being smart in a thread full of dumb. You look stupid.


































:D

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Stop being smart in a thread full of dumb. You look stupid.

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:lol:

You could've at least added a fail image in that gap. :mad:

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Stop being smart in a thread full of dumb. You look stupid.

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That has to be my next sig text! :p

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And to give you folks how bad Slough is, here is a photo which I will not post in IMG tags (for once) because it's too big.

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Slough had the biggest Trading Estate in Europe; only rich companies can afford to reside their. The company I work for was at Slough Trading Estate, then it had to move because they couldn't afford the rent. :(

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Originally Posted by visualAd

Slough had the biggest Trading Estate in Europe

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...and a reputation for aiming toward lofty accolades such as this.

A friend of mine use to live in Zimbabwe but left due to violence.

Megabe is a ****

Are you still at VisualAd's house ILMV?

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Originally Posted by ilmv

Megabe is a ****

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:thumb:

We all have Jimmy Earl Carter to thank for this...

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Originally Posted by JAMES KIRCHICK

In April of 1979, the first fully democratic election in Zimbabwe history's occurred. Of the eligible black voters, 64% participated, braving the threat of terrorist attacks by Mr. Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party, which managed to kill 10 people. Prior to the election, Mr. Mugabe had issued a death list with 50 individuals he named as "traitors, fellow-travelers, and puppets of the Ian Smith regime, opportunistic running-dogs and other capitalist vultures." Nevertheless, Bishop Abel Muzorewa of the United Methodist Church emerged victorious and became prime minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, as the new country was called.

Yet the Carter administration, led by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, would have none of it. Mr. Young referred to Mr. Muzorewa, one of the very few democratically elected leaders on the African continent, as the head of a "neo-fascist" government. Mr. Carter refused to meet Mr. Muzorewa when the newly elected leader visited Washington to seek support from our country, nor did he lift sanctions that America had placed on Rhodesia as punishment for the colony's unilateral declaration of independence from the British Empire in 1965.

Messrs. Carter and Young would only countenance a settlement in which Mr. Mugabe, a Marxist who had repeatedly made clear his intention to turn Zimbabwe into a one-party state, played a leading role. Mr. Young, displaying the willful naiveté that came to characterize Mr. Carter's mindset, told the London Times that Mr. Mugabe was a "very gentle man" whom he "can't imagine … ever pulling the trigger on a gun to kill anyone."

Mr. Mugabe already had pulled the trigger on many innocent people, though. And not long after taking power in 1980, he killed about 25,000 people belonging to a minority tribe, the Ndebele. In spite of this, in 1989, Mr. Carter launched his "Project Africa" in Zimbabwe, a program aimed at helping African countries maintain food sustainability.

Now, however, the Carter Center maintains no programs in Zimbabwe. There is probably more of a reason for this than simply due to Mr. Mugabe's recent ban on foreign aid groups.

Since Mr. Carter was thrown out of office by the American people in 1980, he has spent his post-presidential years lecturing others on morality. The same year Mr. Carter lost a democratic election, Mr. Mugabe ascended to power in a violently flawed one. Yet over the past 27 years Mr. Mugabe has escaped being a target of Mr. Carter's frequent hectoring.

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Robert Mugabe’s thugs shout: ‘Let’s kill the baby’

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A baby boy had both legs broken by supporters of President Robert Mugabe to punish his father for being an opposition councillor in Zimbabwe.

Blessing Mabhena, aged 11 months, was seized from a bed and flung down with force as his mother, Agnes, hid from the thugs, convinced that they were about to murder her.

She heard one of them say, “Let’s kill the baby”, before Blessing was hurled on to a bare concrete floor.

Blessing, who may never be able to walk properly, was one of the youngest victims of atrocities against the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change in the run-up to last Friday’s sham presidential election.

As Mugabe, 84, the only candidate in the election, prepared to be sworn in as president today, it emerged that his forces of terror plan to pulverise opponents to prevent them from ever threatening his leading Zanu-PF again.

Leaked minutes of the Joint Operations Command (JOC), which has orchestrated the violence since Mugabe lost a first round of voting in March, revealed that it is willing to wipe out opposition supporters.

A 10,000-strong youth militia loyal to the Zanu-PF has been created to enforce its wishes in case regular army units refuse, according to Zimbabwean human rights agencies.

“It’s a deliberate nationwide strategy to reoccupy space so all space is occupied by the Zanu of Mugabe,” said Jon Stewart, a director of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum.

Minutes of one JOC meeting show that supporters of Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader, “will all be internally displaced. The target number is two million supporters”.

The plan is to brutalise people into backing Zanu-PF or fleeing the country. “They’re not going to stop,” said a maid in Marondera. “They’re saying they’ll do more beatings and killings until all the ‘traitors’ are flushed out.”

She and her neighbours were waiting for officials to check their fingers for red ink to make sure they had voted on Friday.

But they don't have oil. So much for helping them.

There's that, and the fact that they're a land-locked country and we don't have any friendly countries nearby over whom we have sufficient leverage.

Edited.
First I didn't mean to offend anyone.
But, I guess all my experience with violence has got the better of me. So I have edited this post

hi

I disagree with you, being a South Africa , and an MVP you should think better than this. I admire your achievement and i must say am disappointed in your statement. No one is taking anyone's Job.Have you ever went to a Train Station in a Township ? , at 5am you will someone ready with his Sweets trying to make that R5 a day, and that person is not a South African, a South African Brother or Sister can never do that, now this people of Zimbabwe they work hard and our people are jelous with what they have achieved and they say they take their jobs, NO NO that not true and you know it. lastly , what if you get a Job in London, and people there start saying they dont want South Africans, because they take their Jobs ?

You are Qualified to work, if they are not educated is it your Problem?, Other Countries dont do that, and what you just wrote, mean that you are Encouraging Xenophorbic attacts.

When the Mandela's , the Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo, were Exiled, where were they ? , Some in Zimbabwe , Malawi, Mozazmbique, but people there never did that to them, and now thats what you South Africans do to them.

Think Twice my brother

That is not what I meant. I don't and didn't justify the xenophobic attacks, that is wrong, I agree. There is enough violence here and in Zim that makes this world a sad place. I treat each person with respect and dignity, and I just expect the same, that is all.

Have you Seen Special Assignement , When they showed Zimbabwe?

Man its Bad, i think Mogabe is one of those People who needs to be assasinated.

what do you think?

I won't go that far, but the longer he leads Zimbabwe, the longer people will suffer :cry: IMHO.

No no no no no no no. :mad: My thread will not have any serious posts!

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It is commonplace for the citizens of any population to blame foreigners for their own general incompetence. No, I'm not insulting you (plural). I'm explaining mob mentality; as humans we're rather territorial and want to stick to 'our own kind'. Our own kind is defined by political borders, then geography, skin color, and so on.

Hannes, I did read your post earlier and what you said certainly did sound very wrong. Good you edited your post though.

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No no no no no no no. :mad: My thread will not have any serious posts!

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Sorry!!

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No no no no no no no. :mad: My thread will not have any serious posts!

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:lol: :lol: :lol: OMG! I have never laughed this loud in my life!!!

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:lol: :lol: :lol: OMG! I have never laughed this loud in my life!!!

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I didn't hear you.

Leaving Zimbabwe has never been a decision I regretted. Thats for sure. :)

When did you leave?

Stop trying to bring this thread on-topic!

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When did you leave?

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30 years ago. It was obvious back then that the place was just going to keep getting worse. Mugabe was always a lunatic but so are his supporters and he has a lot of them.

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Originally Posted by VisualAd

I didn't hear you

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You weren't paying more. :afrog:

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Originally Posted by visualAd

I didn't hear you.

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Robert Mugabe’s thugs shout: ‘Let’s kill the baby’

http://www.vbforums.com/images/ieimages/2008/06/1.jpg

A baby boy had both legs broken by supporters of President Robert Mugabe to punish his father for being an opposition councillor in Zimbabwe.

Blessing Mabhena, aged 11 months, was seized from a bed and flung down with force as his mother, Agnes, hid from the thugs, convinced that they were about to murder her.

She heard one of them say, “Let’s kill the baby”, before Blessing was hurled on to a bare concrete floor.

Blessing, who may never be able to walk properly, was one of the youngest victims of atrocities against the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change in the run-up to last Friday’s sham presidential election.

As Mugabe, 84, the only candidate in the election, prepared to be sworn in as president today, it emerged that his forces of terror plan to pulverise opponents to prevent them from ever threatening his leading Zanu-PF again.

Leaked minutes of the Joint Operations Command (JOC), which has orchestrated the violence since Mugabe lost a first round of voting in March, revealed that it is willing to wipe out opposition supporters.

A 10,000-strong youth militia loyal to the Zanu-PF has been created to enforce its wishes in case regular army units refuse, according to Zimbabwean human rights agencies.

“It’s a deliberate nationwide strategy to reoccupy space so all space is occupied by the Zanu of Mugabe,” said Jon Stewart, a director of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum.

Minutes of one JOC meeting show that supporters of Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader, “will all be internally displaced. The target number is two million supporters”.

The plan is to brutalise people into backing Zanu-PF or fleeing the country. “They’re not going to stop,” said a maid in Marondera. “They’re saying they’ll do more beatings and killings until all the ‘traitors’ are flushed out.”

She and her neighbours were waiting for officials to check their fingers for red ink to make sure they had voted on Friday.

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I always check the bottom of these, just incase they say "You will have bad luck and broken legs unless you send this to 10 of your friends", clog up our internetz.