[Clive]

"If you think the current food situation is bad, just wait until next season," says the white farmer's wife. "That's when we'll see a real disaster."

As one bank economist puts it: "Interest rates, the exchange rate, the budget, price controls, land resettlement - you name it, the government has got it wrong."

[Clive]

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[G.Mason]

"2003 seen as crunch year for Zimbabwe"

That's an inside joke....right?

[expatpat]

Hopefully, these white farmers saw it coming and were able to take out large mortgages on the farms, sending the money to banks in Europe, before this sh*t actually happened.

[pabianice]

Much of Africa will simply "go dark" in the next few years -- economic collapse, pandemics, loss of utilities, an end to all electronic and most print media, deaths in the tens of millions ... it will depopulate itself and will probably be resettled by people from the Middle East.