Posted on 08/17/2008 5:43:57 AM PDT by Clive
Dear Family and Friends,
The will of the people. It is impossible to believe that 140 days after Zimbabwe voted for an MDC Parliament and an MDC President the will of the people has yet to be accepted or implemented. After nearly five months we remain locked in a truly horrible state without sworn in legislators, without a parliament and without legitimacy. Everything around us is falling apart so fast now and yet the people and party in power for the last twenty eight years simply refuse to go.
The electricity is now off more than on - in my area its only been on twice during daytime working hours in the last week. Urban water supply seems to have virtually collapsed and in my home area taps are dry for at least 20 hours a day. Massive environmental devastation is being done as people have no choice but to cut trees down for fuel wood. Shops remain barren of virtually all goods and banks have become nightmare places where hundreds of people queue for hours at a time to withdraw the maximum daily allowance which is now handed out as a small bag of coins. At some banks the situation is so bad that the doors stay closed and locked all the time and people are only allowed to enter in small batches.
Much as the old leadership would have us believe, we are not a country at war, no one is trying to invade us or take us over and the future is waiting, just out of our reach. It is very hard, however, to stay sane, healthy and focussed on the Zimbabwe that the majority voted for on the 29th March 2008.
One afternoon this week I went with a friend to a small environmental education centre and game park at a local school and the magnificence of the Zimbabwean bush helped revive flagging spirits. The Msasa trees are coming into new leaf and putting on a spectacular display of copper, caramel, burgundy, port and hot red. The wild oranges are starting to turn yellow and they hang heavily from branches of leafless trees. On rocks and kopjes there are unexpected and vivid scatterings of lime green and bright orange lichen. In between trees and rocks, superbly camouflaged, there were giraffe, zebra, wildebeest and impala. This small environmental education centre, a vision from the past, giving knowledge and understanding to our children in such troubled times and promising hope for the future of our beleaguered, broken Zimbabwe.
Until next week, thanks for reading, love cathy.
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My prayers are with anyone living under that maniac.
I wonder just how it can get any worse so as to force an outside nation to remove the nutcase Mugabe? I mean really, what is left?
Mbeki is not really in a position to do anything, and the other surrounding nations are incompetent and uncaring.
If the only ones to show are the Chinese the long term effects will be catastrophic.
Why is this woman still there?
The citizens of the country have decided - for various reasons (including their own safety) - to maintain this type of government. If she is so unhappy she should move. Staying there accomplishes little and it endangers her.
Anyone who fervently supported Mugabe has made the bed they are currently bitching about lying in.
I have little sympathy for her, too. But she isn’t staying there to get personal sympathy. She’s there to be a witness & reporter to describe every day life and her writing is compelling.
Clive - I’m wondering if you have one of her letters that describes her reasons for staying? This seems to be coming up more, now that you’ve resumed posting her letters.
Thanks for posting.
Based upon the history of sub-Saharan Africa, Mugabe would just be replaced by another nutcase eventually. Eventually the Chinese will take over, unbothered by political correctness. they will bring in their own people to keep the mines working, and the native Africans will be treated like the Native Americans were
“I have very little sympathy for Cathy Buckle. Her complaining looks foolish now, as she was a big-time fan of Mugabe in the beginning”
We’ll probably be saying the same thing about Obama supporters in a few years.
Agreed.
Time. To. Get. Out. Now.
It is a good thing they kicked the whites out and gave the country to the communists...sarc
I fear so. I hope to GOD they don’t drag the rest of us down with them.
Mbeki and Mugabe are cut from the same cloth.
>Eventually the Chinese will take over, unbothered by political correctness.
Probably the best outcome the people of Zimbabwe can realisticly hope for.
Thanks for posting Cathy Buckles’ reports - she is a faithful witness to events there, her perspective unburdened by any understanding of history, politics, and economics.
There’s a train coming, and she has her ear to the tracks.
>>There’s a train coming, and she has her ear to the tracks.<<
And if she doesn’t move out of the way soon, she will be run over, as the train is in sight and bearing down.
You got my drift.
You got that right. Some people stand on the tracks watching the train approach like stupid cows. I'd leave Zim if I had to crawl out.
Well Cathy, since you and your idiot husband played a significant role in 'breaking' Zimbabwe it's really, really difficult to work up much sympathy for you.
I do however take a great deal of satisfaction in watching leftists whine "but this isn't what we meant!" when the inevitable happens to them.
L
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