Zimbabwe - The place to be

[placidfemme]

Zimbabwe right now is one of the top places to be. Here are some examples of what makes it great:

The police are so effective you will never have to be worried about walking around a corner and coming across a prayer meeting

The economy is so good that people carry around suitcases of money

I've heard that birthday parties are amazingly extravagent there

The fuel is so good over there that people line up for three days to get it

Most of the population is under 32 for some reason--who wants old people anyway?

There are free and fair elections, and you can make bets on ZANU-PF and WIN!

The country is environmentally forward in only having the power on half the time.

The president is such a great guy that you never hear anyone saying anything bad about him inside the country

I hear ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation) has more than one channel now

There is an exemplary municipal cleaning and civic beautification program, and a surprisingly low occurrence of slums.

The government even puts up free board and lodging for journalists. How nice of them.

Zimbabwe goes one step further in the War Against Terror. If they don't find real terrorists they frame people they don't like as terrorists and have them arrested. Way to go, Bob!

Happy Independence Day, and long live Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Keep staying true to your word! :shutup: :shutup: :shutup:

[Finn]

Pity it's full of blacks.

[Swoop]

Mugabe backwards = E ba gum.

[placidfemme]

lol yeah I thought it was rather clever when I saw it and thought I'd share it...

[riffer]

Yeah, I guess you have to laugh.

Not much else you can do.

I admire the courage of people like Cathy Buckle though.:mellow:

[placidfemme]

I admire the courage of people like Cathy Buckle though.:mellow:

Who is she?

[riffer]

Wow! You've not heard of Cathy Buckle?

To quote Wikipedia:

Catherine Buckle or Cathy Buckle is a writer living in Marondera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marondera), Zimbabwe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe). She and her husband bought "Stow Farm" and spent over ten years turning its rocky grounds into fertile soil, making the farm productive and viable. However, in 2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000) she lost her farm, home and livelihood to a group of "war veterans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veteran)" who claimed rights to her land. Cathy has written three books for children. Most recently she has written "African Tears (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Tears)" and "Beyond Tears (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Tears)", two books telling about her struggle after she lost her farm and how, when she returned to it two years later, it had been turned into a squatter camp. Despite heavy pressures on writers by the Zimbabwean Government, Cathy is determined that the truth about her home country be known. Therefore she writes a weekly e-mail telling of the current situation in Zimbabwe which is sent around the globe.

A number of my Zimbabwean friends regularly get info from her site (http://africantears.netfirms.com/).

[placidfemme]

Wow! You've not heard of Cathy Buckle?

To quote Wikipedia:

Catherine Buckle or Cathy Buckle is a writer living in Marondera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marondera), Zimbabwe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe). She and her husband bought "Stow Farm" and spent over ten years turning its rocky grounds into fertile soil, making the farm productive and viable. However, in 2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000) she lost her farm, home and livelihood to a group of "war veterans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veteran)" who claimed rights to her land. Cathy has written three books for children. Most recently she has written "African Tears (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Tears)" and "Beyond Tears (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Tears)", two books telling about her struggle after she lost her farm and how, when she returned to it two years later, it had been turned into a squatter camp. Despite heavy pressures on writers by the Zimbabwean Government, Cathy is determined that the truth about her home country be known. Therefore she writes a weekly e-mail telling of the current situation in Zimbabwe which is sent around the globe.

A number of my Zimbabwean friends regularly get info from her site (http://africantears.netfirms.com/).

ahhh ok.. Havn't heard of her before... but thanks for the link :)

Edit: Yeah Marondera is/was one of the best farming areas/regions in Zim, not surprised mugabe took her land away... I have two farmer friends who had farms there... both were also kicked off thier land... they plouged diesel into the land... good shit

[Max Preload]

It's all good. Blacks killing blacks.