Land is the economy…

“Land is the Economy…” – didn’t someone famous say that? Maybe it should be – especially in our country – but I sure know it ain’t now!

And the reason isn’t the drought, or Blair and Bush…who does mugabe think we are to believe such rubbish? The farms have been deliberately trashed, and not just the farmers but the farmworkers have lost their incomes. And all the irrigation equipment which kept the farms going through many droughts before has been vandalized or stolen.

If land is the economy, the land must be in a poor state (it is!).

And if the economy is land, then the economy must be in a poor state (again, it is!).

Inflation is over 500% – who would have believed that a year ago, when Mr Gono told us it would be down to 80% by now or something like that. He now says it will be down to that by December NEXT year – I wish I could believe him, because I just can’t make ends meet now.

I don’t really understand the way foreign exchange rates work, but I was able to get $14 000 for the Rand that my uncle gave me over Christmas, but if I’d taken it to the bank then I know I’d have got a lot less. This makes me think that Mr Gono is not being honest, because he said back in October that he was going to make the bank rate the same as the street rate.

How does he expect us to believe him any more?

Does he know the way we’re suffering? Does he care? Do any of them care?

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