Zimbabwe: Economic & Political Strife (Video n Pics)

Mabvuku, March 2008: Raw human excrement is flowing out of them into the streets – the stench in unbelievable.

Bread queue

Baptism by milk: Man believed to be possessed by evil spirits gets baptized (March 2008

Burnt huts are seen at Mount Panis Farm in Centenary, 220 kilometres north of Harare , Friday, April 11, 2008.

Farm workers sit outside their burnt huts at the Mount Panis Farm in Centenary, 220 kilometres north of Harare , Friday, April 11, 2008

A man pushes his relative in a wheelbarrow to a Cholera Polyclinic, where victims of cholera are being treated in Harare, Zimbabwe. Mounting cholera deaths in Zimbabwe Tuesday and fears that it could spread into a regional crisis put pressure on the country’s squabbling leaders as they restarted deadlocked unity talks.

The suffering has left people with no choice

This woman is baring her soul to cross the dangerous border fence into South Africa

HIV & AIDS IN ZIMBABWE, RECENT VIDEO

There are no more patients inside the wards, just empty beds

 A young girl walks through burst sewage water in Harare suburb of Mabvuku. NOV 4 2008

A girl scavenges in a rubbish heap in Chitungwiza, a town on the outskirts of Harare, the capital. An estimated 4.9 million people in Zimbabwe are desperately in need of food aid, and there is said to be no seed for planting

In this Nov. 12, 2008 file photo school children sell wild fruits alongside the road in Murehwa, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe’s economy is in crisis, and a political deadlock has left the nation without a functioning government since disputed elections in March

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Children catch termites to eat near Murehwa, Zimbabwe, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. Zimbabwe’s economy is in crisis, and a political deadlock has left the nation without a functioning government since disputed elections in March

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A child shows termite caught to eat near Murehwa, Zimbabwe, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. Zimbabwe’s economy is in crisis, and a political deadlock has left the nation without a functioning government since disputed elections in March.

Vhukani Sibanda catapults a bird for food for the pot in Doma, Zimbabwe, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Zimbabwe’s economy is in crisis, and a political deadlock has left the nation without a functioning government since disputed elections in March

Tendai Mutevera looks for food in a birds nest in Doma, Zimbabwe, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Zimbabwe’s economy is in crisis, and a political deadlock has left the nation without a functioning government since disputed elections in March.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vhukani Sibanda snaps the neck of a bird he caught to eat in Doma, Zimbabwe, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Zimbabwe’s economy is in crisis, and a political deadlock has left the nation without a functioning government since disputed elections in March

Its less than US$1

Ferrying the sick to Hospital, a common mode of transportation

 

ABOVE: Anna Satiya, 84, shows a head injury and scars sustained after an attack by suspected Zanu PF supporters in Gutu, about 150 kms south of Harare, Zimbabwe Tuesday, April, 22, 2008. Satiya, who was receiving medical attention, told how the family was woken up at night and beaten for voting against President Robert Mugabe in the March 29 elections. Zimbabwe church leaders issued a joint statement Tuesday calling for international intervention to help end the country’s election crisis, and said people are being tortured, abducted and some murdered in a campaign against opposition supporters

 

Nowhere to run for a senior citizen accused of supporting Zimbabwe Opposition party

Queuing to withdraw money just enough for a one way commuter trip as cash crisis bites

spent days in queue just to get a loaf of bread

Rising school fees force many Zimbabwean children to learn at home.” 

  

She can still afford a smile!!

 

 

 

Relics of what used to be a school in Zimbabwe

Queuing for mini-buses (MIni-buses not available as fuel crisis continues)

And the President

Nothing has been done to house over 700,000 homeless people in Zimbabwe whose homes were demolished by the Mugabe government

Typical supermarket

A young girl walks through sewage water in the Harare township of Dzivaresekwa. South African President Kgalema Motlanthe has warned that Zimbabwe’s political deadlock could bring the troubled nation to collapse as he announced new talks to save a stalled unity accord. Associated Press Nov 26, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Malvern Nyamutora , Junior Doctors’ Association