In four decades of independence, Zimbabwe’s rulers have been able to deploy the security forces to crush protests even as the southern African nation sank deeper into economic crisis.
Judging from the latest bout of unrest, that may no longer be true.
Crowds showed little fear as they poured onto the streets of the capital, Harare, and other major cities when the main labour federation called a three-day stay-away this month after fuel prices were more than doubled.
The army’s response to the worst rioting since 1995 claimed the lives of at least a dozen people, and gunshot wounds accounted for 78 of the about 360 injuries. Fuelling the anger of young people – three-fifths of Zimbabweans are under 25 – is a sharp decline in buying power of mostly unemployed urban residents and shortages of everything from petrol to bread.
Most are too young to remember Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leading the country to independence from the UK in 1980.
“People struck and looted because they are hungry,” said Abel Moyo, an unemployed 27-year-old in the northern town of Chinhoyi. “The people are poorer now than before independence. What have we been liberated from? Wealth?”
Since Mnangagwa took power, inflation has surged to 42%, the highest since 2008 when it soared to 500 billion percent and prompted the government to abolish its own currency, reported FIN24.
Looks like that terrible “white supremacy” isn’t that bad after all and the days of Rhodesia are now regretted. There is a saying where I live, in my native language of course: “flowers will grow wherever white people set foot.”
Why did such a thought even cross their mind to begin with is a total mystery, after all who brought them buildings, the cars you see in the above picture, electricity, roads, even the clothes they wear?
Those men there, should have ripped that sign apart thinking to themselves “For God’s sake we didn’t even have a written alphabet, the very letters we read here on this stupid sign, are Roman letters, the language is English, to hell with this BS! I want whites to stay continue to help us but nope, they wanted independence from the “evil whites”.
How is that independence from the “evil white man” working out for you Zimbabwe?
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