Cholera ravages Harare, and soldiers’ bodies are returning in body bags from the DRC
It seems as though most of the people I am coming across are not even aware that the power negotiation talks resumed in South Africa. Everybody is now concentrating on living in a fast-collapsing economy.
Talk in Harare’s streets is of the deadly cholera outbreak that is decimating the urban populace.
A relation of mine lost a business associate of his who resided in Budiriro. The man first complained of severe stomach cramps before he began suffering from massive diarrhea and vomiting. He lost his life within 6 hours, leaving a wife and family to whom he was breadwinner.
The numbers of dead from cholera are piling up and still the cover-up operation continues with the administration not will to admit it has failed the people and declare a national health emergency. Lives can still be saved, but acknowledgement of failure and acceptance is a prerequisite from the administration so that efficient and expedite ways of containing the outbreak are sought.
It seems there is another cover-up too:
I learnt yesterday from an insider that bodies are returning to Manyame Airbase aboard airforce planes in body bags as the war in the Congo ravages. A lot of secrecy has surrounded the deployment of soldiers into the DRC conflict but reports of Zimbabwean military activity are being received, even from foreign media correspondence. The DRC excursion has proved to be very unpopular amongst members of Zimbabwe’s demoralized army who are not prepared to pay the ultimate sacrifice while safeguarding the interests of an unpopular dictatorship. They have also been deployed in helicopter gunships to launch air assault operations on illegal diamond miners in the Marange diamond fields.
