Zimbabwe Facing Starvation

Well, as predicted, Zimbabwe is facing starvation

Despite official claims that Zimbabwe can feed itself, the country grew less food this season than in any in modern times and needs more than a million tonnes of grain to keep the population alive.

But I'm sure the Zanu PF thugs will have all the food they can eat, and more.

Statistics released yesterday by the United Nations show that Zimbabwe's shortfall will be more than last year, when donors had to provide food for up to 5.5 million people, nearly half the population.

Wouldn't it be far cheaper to send Mugabe a J-DAM?

In his first interview with British journalists for four years, President Robert Mugabe told Sky News two weeks ago that Zimbabwe needed neither to import food, nor donors to provide funds for food.

And that's pretty horrifying, since he's telling potential donors to not even set aside funds or make plans for the coming famine. Even Sumerians weren't that stupid, and there's no risk that the socialist fuckweasel Mugabe will ever be confused with Sargon or Hammurabi, whose empire only collapsed because he banned ladies night.

110. If a "sister of a god" open a tavern, or enter a tavern to drink, then shall this woman be burned to death.

Yikes!

Over the past four years Mr Mugabe has destroyed the economy and food production by ordering his supporters to evict, often violently, more than 3,000 white commercial farmers and many thousands of their workers.

And that was one of the stupidest ideas any ruler has ever had, except perhaps Saddam's bright idea the bitter end. Maybe Mugabe needs a Zimbabwe Bob to handle PR. "I say the plants are springing up from the ground and throwing themselves into our silos everywhere!"

Mr Mugabe told the UN to stop its annual assessment of Zimbabwe's crops last month. But before three teams from the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Food Programme left the country, some assessors largely completed their work.

"The mission estimated that total food production this year would be even lower than last year's 980,000 tonnes," the UN said. Zimbabwe needs 2.1 million tonnes of maize every year to feed itself, according to the UN.

In his interview Mr Mugabe endorsed earlier claims that Zimbabwe had grown a record harvest of 2.3 million tonnes this year. But this figure is discounted by all independent experts.

His agriculture department is obviously using Stalin's Almanac, because coming up with only half the required food shows the vast difference between socialist fantasy and famine inducing reality.

A diplomat said yesterday the Zimbabwean government was "now engaged in a war about crop statistics". Mr Mugabe, keen to show African leaders that his land grab was successful, claimed that Zimbabwe would produce a surplus this year, but the government has admitted it has been secretly importing grain for several weeks.

There are probably millions who face a horrible death just to support his vast ego, all because he's too arrogant to admit that seizing farm land was staggeringly stupid. He might as well have said "Eliminate the farmers! Seize their land and then instead of milling grain just mill around wondering what used to make the plants grow."

Mr Mugabe told Sky News that the World Food Programme should feed hungry people elsewhere in the world. "Why foist this food upon us?" he asked. "We don't want to be choked, we have enough. The whites who were here were mere actor farmers, ill-educated, and we brought in a system which is much more enlightened than the system they had."

I didn't call him a socialist fuckweasel for nothing, and this shows their penchant for rejecting reality in favor of a pet theory in which they're somehow "enlightened". If things get bad I just hope the people manage to get their hands on his fat and pathetic self.

The FAO said yesterday that the causes of the dramatic drop in food production were a "further decline of large-scale commercial farms, the impact of the HIV/Aids pandemic, shortages of quality seeds, and the high local cost of fertiliser" as well as erratic rainfall.

Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, said yesterday: "The UN's estimate is close to what we predicted and we will run out of food in about October.

It's strange to watch the calendar to see when your last meal is coming, but this is the situation in Zimbabwe, as has been predicted for quite some time. And still Mugabe does nothing but spout his megalomaniacal Marxist insanity.

"Mugabe wants to cover up the food deficit and will use it as we get close to elections." Mr Mugabe said last week that parliamentary elections would be held next March.

From the way John Kerry blathers about Saudi oil and everything else, I'd love to hear what he'd have to say about a rule that really is going to starve half his population to throw an election.