Posted on 07/01/2015 11:12:29 PM PDT by bob_denard
VOA|Harare in the 1980s was affectionately referred to as the sunshine city because of its cleanliness. The city was orderly with well-maintained roads, bright street lights and clean running water and the blooming jacaranda trees also gave the it a unique view.
But things have taken a bad turn as the city has been decaying since the 1990s. Buildings are now resembling a war zone and children hang around on street corners with nowhere to go and homeless people tell stories of disease and crime.
These pictures reveal real-life scenes from an urban area hit-hard by the recession and still stumbling dangerously into poverty. What has gone wrong in Harare?
Until the late 1980s, the government supplied safe drinking water to 85 per cent of Zimbabwe’s urban population. But decades of neglect and corruption have left the pipes dry, forcing many people to drink contaminated water. A cholera epidemic in 2008 killed more than 4,000 people and sickened another 100,000 in the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at zimeye.com ...
And?
And i am up set i use to live there and care of it because i am well educated
This is the place where the UN parts currently located in NYC should be relocated to.
Not our nation’s problem. Time we focus on America first and stop worrying about the rest of the world. If they want to live and breed in squaller, so be it. Just quarantine the area, like we should the rest of the third world, beginning with our southern border with Mexico, places like this in Africa, like India, etc. Beyond that, how about we focus on cleaning up the US, helping Americans? (Apologize if that sounds insensitive but I’m tired of seeing us allow the US fall apart while worrying instead about the rest of the world.)
Please give us your address, so we can send help.
What has gone wrong in Harare ?
they ran the good ,white , farmers and soldiers out .
Ian Smith should have never caved and America
should have supported Rhodesia 100% Screw Britain .
Look where their retarded immigration and social policies
have gotten them . Especially white Britons , who are in danger of being displaced , just like white Rhodesians were .
History repeats
Are you at berkeley or harvard?
Pamwe chete
I don't think the writer meant that as a rhetorical question, even though it obviously is.
Civilization doesn’t take long to break down, no matter what country is involved. I’m very sorry for those who were either deceived by corrupt people or who saw what was going on but couldn’t do anything about it.
This is where the US should dump illegal aliens instead of releasing them at the border. Pay the local Zs $2K per head to feed them for a week and give them some basic language skills. Then, turn them loose.
If the governments of the illegal doesn’t like it, those governments can pay to fly them home.
Not to be confused with Dingy Hairy.
Negros can break an anvil...that’s what they do.
When the whites lost power.
Oh, the horror!
/s
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