Release the Zimbabwe report
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
There is every indication that with every passing hour, the situation is becoming unbearable for ordinary Zimbabweans. Shop shelves are bare of even the basic foodstuff.
With the state bullying traders to operate under the most fiscal repressive environment, it is close to impossible for any business to trade in Zimbabwe. A four-digit inflation rate, which is said to be the highest in the world, has only compounded matters.
Zimbabweans do not talk of employment anymore. Employment has become the biggest sham. `Economic factors in Zimbabwe have turned gainful employment into an impossibility for the majority of Zimbabweans. Even for those that have still kept their jobs.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...