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posted by manulite g in Zimbabwe forum
I'm not a regular on this site. I was just 'passing through' when I bumped into this discussion. I'm sorry but Krissie is being overly sensative and misrepresenting a lot of facts.
>Umm honey, please don't go there, everyone is getting murdered left and right there,
There's been politically motivated viloence, and a number of people were reported dead. That's more in the past than of late. Zimbabwe has since formed a government of national unity, comprising of all the rival parties which has been running for the last 2 years
>ESPECIALLY WHITES,
That again happened way back in 2001, when white owned farms were being invaded. Since then, there could have been isolated cases, targeting local white commercial farmers, but not to the sensational levels krissie want to make it sound like.>cholera and malaria are running rampant,
No they are not! There have been outbreaks in certain areas in the past, and they all were contained.
>there's no food, clean water,
Seriously? shouldn't we all be dead? Or probably looking like those stereotypical 'This is Africa' images from Somalia or Ethiopia? There could be areas with inadequate water supplies, or food, but Zimbabwe in general has enough food and water.
>no safety, there $ is even worthless!
Umm, Zimbabwe uses USD, Euro, South African Rand, and British Pound as legal tender. The Zimbabwe dollar was decommissioned years back. And in terms of safety, with the usual precautions, you are good to go.
>Go on to zimbabwedemocracynow.org or freezimbabwe any sites really that are
>up to date about zimbabwe will tell you everything that's going on. Its not looking
>good over there!There are also numerous other sites you could visit with a different perspective. I can dig up a few if need be.
krissie, you've definitely never been to Zimbabwe. While everyone knows that we've been though very difficult times, and that we still have a lot of issues to resolve politically and otherwise, Zimbabwe right now is stable and if it was as bad as you would want everyone to believe, enough countries would have it on their travel ban list. Maybe, you should come to Zimbabwe and I'll host you and show you the true Zimbabwean hospitality ;)