Witless Idiots
Now here’s a cool bit of info! Shows the sheer folly of zanupf’s arrogance, in particular our witless idiot of a minister of agriculture (joseph made)! Also shows clearly how they (zanupf) are – faster than ever before – burning the country’s bridges.
That friend of a friend’s uncle, who so often drops me pearls, commented that he had been talking with a senior official from the sugar estates in Triangle - where all of the country’s sugar is grown. In good times sugar also used to be a major export crop.
Last year they realised a crop of about 790,000 tonnes. But then along came zanupf, led by that idiot Made! They were going to grow winter maize! You may have heard of it before? This is something that the world has never thought of, because they are all idiots right?
Yessir, you just plant your maize – in winter – and then you irrigate it, right?
Now why hadn’t the world thought of that before?
So … now you take the biggest sugar plantation in the country and appropriate it to grow your WINTER maize, because it is already conveniently piped for irrigation. You then just plant your seed and it all grows like triffids – yay!
Well done minister Made! What a triumph for zanupf! No more maize shortages – food for all!
But – oops, it didn’t work so good, did it? The yield from the entire estate was equated by my friend of a friend’s uncle as about one day’s maize requirement for Zim’s second city, Bulawayo. What a success!
But that was not the full extent of zanupf’s triumph! Nope!
The problem now is that the fertilizers used for maize and for sugar cane are different – so different that the lands cannot be used for sugar cane cropping for 3 years!
Aiiessh! But minister Made – it couldn’t have been you that made such a blunder, could it?
And just to follow on from that – without the appropriated lands, this year’s crop has been limited to about 70,000 tonnes. Double whammy!
Guess there are going to be a few Zimbos going without their traditional sweet tea, hey!
December 9th, 2005 16:33
This is just another example of the gross mis-management, curruption and down right sheer loonacy that has been going on from day one!
Sadly even worse can be expected in the furure. My heart goes out to the people of Zimbabwe who are stuck between a rock and a hard place. It is a crime that a country with the potential of Zimbabwe finds itself in the position it is. This pathetic state of affairs is a result of exactly this kind of thing and much much worse.
All I can say is batten down the hatches because its not going to get any better any time soon.