Many people on this forum unashamedly mock Zimbabwe. It really is not such a bad country after all. I have lived here since March 2013 and to be honest, it is overall a peaceful and beautiful land. Here are some facts and pictures of this graceful land:-
Criticizing His Excellency, President Robert Mugabe who is the founding father of Zimbabwe or a Senior Public Officer of the governing party ZANU-PF can land you ten years in jail but heck, who would want to cause embarrassment to their nation by going around speaking badly about their government yeah ? Patriotism is being instilled in the average Zimbabwean and this I am certain has now been adopted by them without much fuss.
The police here are rather caring, especially if you are wealthy. They adopt riot control measures which are humane. An example is the last riots at Shurugwi where only 25 people were killed and about 500 arrested and awaiting trial since 2010. The rioters were complaining about the lack of government food aid and now that they are imprisoned without trail, the police seem to have sorted out their problems by affording them three meals a day.
Unemployment is rife in Zimbabwe. For Zimbabweans that is. The Chinese and Indians who have practically economically colonized Zimbabwe have no problems with obtaining a job since their companies doing business in Zimbabwe imports their citizens en mass to do work which could easily be done by the local people. But let's not paint Zim in a bad light since this seems to be the norm in other neighboring countries as well such as Kenya, the DRC and Namibia. Only South Africa seems to have taken a strong stance against this practice for the reason that the trade unions there are quite vocal and so is the media.
There is a free media in Zimbabwe but they seem to concentrate mostly on advertising and selected crime and social news and on international news. In fact, the average Zimbabwean seems to know more about what is the political situation in Ukraine than in their own homeland. Nothing to laugh about since we have a similar biased media in India and Pakistan for example.
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The Zimbabwean currency is completely devalued thanks to the efforts of the colonialist west especially Britain. But to improvise, the government has authorized the use of the imperialist devil USA's dollars. This has ticked off neighboring countries such as Namibia and South Africa who believe that this is an attempt by Zimbabwe to project itself as the USA of Africa. Namibians and South Africans view this rather seriously since Zimbabweans were always regarded by them as the Mexicans of Southern Africa who endlessly illegally cross the border to seek work in their countries. The currency commences from 10 Zim dollars to 100 billion Zim dollars. Two loaves of bread costs about 100 billion Zim dollars, depending on which part of Zimbabwe you live in.
The people of Zimbabwe are overall rather well educated. Zimbabwe ironically rightfully claims a higher educated population than both South Africa and Namibia and Malawi combined. This also ticked off South Africans and Namibians who countered this by questioning why there were more Zimbabweans in their countries than there was in Zimbabwe. His Excellency, President Mugabe took strong offense to this and demanded that a census be conducted in Zimbabwe to prove this irritating claims false. Offcourse they were false. The census proved that there were approximately more than 8000 more Zimbabweans in Zimbabwe than there was in South Africa and 2000 more Zimbabweans than there was in Namibia.
Zimbabwe has a lovely landscape. It is well worth visiting but rather expensive now that they trade in US$. There is Victoria Falls and the Great Zimbabwe Ruins (no not the country itself but rocks which epitomize an ancient culture). You are likely to see the big five (animals not politicians) if you visit any Zimbabwean wildlife parks. There is a migration pattern of wildlife between a host of countries including Zimbabwe which in the past 10 years seems to be emulated by the people of Zimbabwe. The lions especially didn't take kindly to this and in Kruger National Park itself, horrendous stories are being reported of Zimbabweans being eaten by amongst others lions and cheetahs. Many beautiful artwork is sold in Zimbabwe. For about US$18000 you could buy a well sculptured elephant and have it shipped to South Africa for shipment to your homeland. Offcourse, if you bargain well enough, you could get the price dropped to US$8000. This trick was passed onto the Zimbabweans by the Indian and Chinese workers.
Zimbabwe has one of the most fertile and arable land in the world. You could spit out an apple seed to the soil when it rains and in a week an apple tree seedling would be growing there. Most farms were owned by White Zimbabweans during the early 1990s. The Lancashire Agreement between Zimbabwe and that devil colonialist country named Britain was suspended by that evil monster Tony Blair during the 1990s after the evil colonialist Britain accused the Zimbabwean government of mass corruption and utilizing the funds given by Britain for their personal use. The Lancashire Agreement was in effect an undertaking by Britain in the 1980s to pay to the Zimbabwean government a certain amount to be used for the benefit of its people as a redress for colonialism of its land. Since Tony Blair looked White and the White Zimbabweans looked White like Tony Blair, His Excellency ordered the Black people of Zimbabwe to invade the farms and to take possession of farms and farming equipment without compensation to those pesky Tony Blair looking alike people. His Excellency vowed to never let foreigners own Zimbabwean assets again. The Whites of Zimbabwe emigrated largely to South Africa and to Britain. The people offcourse messed up the farms and the current scenario is that the Chinese and the Indians are buying up those farms (in addition to the mines and everything else of value in Zimbabwe) on a large scale. Britain threatened to invade Zimbabwe in retribution for some of its citizens being killed there. It somehow seemed to have lost interest in the fight when Mugabe announced the printing of the 5 billion Zim dollar note.
