Political Famine
According to Africa’s food security early warning system, Zimbabwe will harvest only 600,000 tons of maize this season. The country consumes an annual average of 1.8m tons, leaving it the highest cereal deficit in southern Africa.Zimbabwe will also have to import 200,000 tons of wheat, 40,000 tons of sorghum and 6,000 tons of rice to avert widespread deaths related to starvation.
The government has no money to pay for this and Mugabe has consistently refused to appeal for food aid. To do so would mean admitting the failure of his land distribution programme. Some believe the WFP should stop plugging the gap as this has the side effect of sustaining the regime.
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If ever there was a candidate for regime change it is Zimbabwe. Bad enough that Mugabe’s wacked African Marxist political land redistribution has virtually destroyed the country’s capacity to fed itself; now he is refusing food aid lest it underscores the idiocy of that policy.
A relatively small, well armed, group of soldiers with air support could go in, arrest Mugabe and his henchmen and let the food so desperately needed go to the people of Zimbabwe.
Does such a force need to be African? I don’t think so. It would be good to have African participation but eliminating gangsters who are killing the population of the nation they have somehow attained power in is an international responsibility.
The essential problem in Zimbabwe is an old lunatic who has long since ceased acting on behalf of the people his responsible for. It is time for Mugabe to go. By force if necessary and damned quickly.
Written by jay on April 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
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