Thread: Zimbabwe elections - Wow !!

^yeah, but if you have 100,000% inflation - why the hell would you keep your money in a bank (in local currency)?

Originally Posted by William

I could be wrong, but wasn't it called the "bread basket" of Africa?

I think you mean the "basket case" of Africa.

Originally Posted by William

I could be wrong, but wasn't it called the "bread basket" of Africa?

Yeh, that too. Bread basket to basket case.

Originally Posted by William

I could be wrong, but wasn't it called the "bread basket" of Africa?

Your not wrong..

Looks like the Opposition had better start circling the wagons. Drama coming.

My Dad was up in Harare this week and stayed at the Holiday Inn. While he was there he took a copy of the room service menu, which he sent to me tonight. Unfortunately I cannot post it here, as it is in pdf format.

Anyhow, I'll buy a beer for the first person who can guess correctly how much a cup of coffee on room service at the Holiday Inn, Harare costs*?

*MtD is excluded from this as I have sent him a copy of the room service menu

Ok just for fun 2.5mil..

^not even close

Yeah I was thinking closer to double that, but hell I'm at a disadvantage since I don't even drink coffee..

^double that and then double it again, and you are getting closer

Sweet Jaysus!! Good thing I don't drink coffee!!! Does that come with a BJ at least? How do they get that many 0's on the menu??

^lucky you don't drink milkshakes. When I saw that price I nearly spit me beer

Originally Posted by William

^lucky you don't drink milkshakes. When I saw that price I nearly spit me beer

I do..... But not very often..

Looks like things are about to get nasty over there. Appears Mugabe is not willing to relinquish power, although most people didn't expect him to.

^and that surprises you?

Originally Posted by William

*MtD is excluded from this as I have sent him a copy of the room service menu

You must've sent it to my work email. I'll not see it until Tuesday.

Politics in Zimbabwe are beyond imagination .
Thought their President is ready to go EXIT right now .
Better so with such inflation and madness .

The mampara knows his time is up hence the two helicopter gunships parked on his lawn outside his official residence for the past 2 months. From what I understand, Malaysia has offered him a place when he gets booted.

Morgan shitstick has made an offer to all farmers that they will be getting their land back as soon as he takes over, however I don't see that happening as he is just playing everyone for the $1billion bailout that has been promised by the West.

Meanwhile, away from the spotlight:

Wife of Mugabe rival burned alive after having feet hacked off


A man stands in front of a Movement for Democratic Change poster on the day of Mrs Chipiro's murder


The wife of a Zimbabwean opposition party member has been brutally murdered in what is being labelled as one the most grotesque atrocities yet committed by Robert Mugabe’s regime.

Dadirai Chipiro, wife of Patson Chipiro who heads the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district, had a hand cut off as well as both of her feet before a petrol bomb was thrown through her window.

The three men who pulled up outside her house were looking for her husband, who was in Harare, and left before coming back an hour later to kill her.

Her body was so badly burnt that she was not able to be properly placed in a coffin as her arm was burnt rigid.


Last Friday's killing was carried out as violence worsens in the run-off presidential elections in two weeks time.

It also follows the chilling brutality methods of Sirrra Leone rebel leader Foday Sankoh, whose trade-mark was to chop off hands and feet.

According to The Times, Mrs Chipiro, 45, a former pre-school teacher, was the second wife of a junior official of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) burnt alive by Zanu (PF) militiamen.


Pamela Pasvani, the 21-year-old pregnant wife of a local councillor in Harare was killed in a similar attack, which also claimed the life of the councillor six-year-old son.



Zimbabwe has been plunged into civil unrest in the run-up to the second round of Zimbabwe's presidential elections

Meanwhile local MDC supporters gathered around Mr Chipiro’s in a bid to protect him.

Mr Chipiro, 51, arrived back from Harare to find his three brick huts on fire.

“I was trying to put the fire out,” he said. “I thought my wife was hiding in the bushes.”

The Times said his four-year-old nephew, Admire, heard him calling her. “He ran to me. He said, ‘Auntie has been beaten and they threw her in the fire’.”

Officials also initially refused to give Mr Chipiro a copy of the police report which listed the cause of death.

“I am very frightened,” he said. “They want to kill me. But I have no alternative. My presence here as a leader is very important.


"If I leave, everyone else will leave. I intend to fight the battle, from here.”


Last Friday's killing is being called one of the most grotesque atrocities committed by Robert Mugabe's regime since independence in 1980

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1025949/Wife-Mugabe-rival-burned-alive-having-feet-hacked-off.html