Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble”.
The witches’ incantations in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” certainly resonate with the tragedy that the contemporary Zimbabwe has become. For quite some time, the country has been a cracked house. The only difference between now and then is that the house is uncontrollably leaking from [...]
Archive for December, 2008
17 Dec
Zimbabwe’s Grief: Cholera and Strange Things
8 Dec
Memo to SADC Heads of States: Act Now or Forever be Silent!
As you have seen and heard, body bags of cholera victims mostly women and children, continue to pile up at dysfunctional and abandoned hospitals in Zimbabwe while 13 000 people are already infected with the disease, according to the most recent United Nations Report. The crisis also comes at a time when more than half [...]
4 Dec
Mugabe’s Self-Inflicted Miserable Quandary
http://zimbabwesituation.com/dec3_2008.html
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Talk of civil disobedience, we saw it coming! For the first time in history,
Zimbabwe has started to experience up-close glimpses of a mutiny. The recent
scenes of rioting and looting soldiers running skirmishes with armed police
are a precursor of what is to come given the mounting crises. In spite of
having a political career replete with innumerable [...]
