The availability of first class private schools superb medical facilities and gigantic supermarkets bursting with South African groceries and luxury goods must be reassuring news for the majority of impoverished Zimbabweans.
To be sure Zimbabwean cricketing fans are delighted that Zim has returned to test cricket with a victory over Bangladesh at Harare Sports Club. More to the point English cricketing fans were even more delighted when Andy Flower, in company with Henry Olonga, chose to wear black armbands in support of democracy in Zimbabwe. It was because they had to subsequently flee Zimbabwe for their lives and seek refuge in England, that Andy Flower was able to coach the English cricket team into the world’s number one position.
Zimbabwe was once upon a time the bread basket of Africa. To hear that experienced and dispossessed food producers are now whiling away the time playing polo is to say the least unfortunate. Perhaps if the MDC hadn’t split down the middle into two opposing factions the ‘farm situation’ would have been ‘sorted out’ more expeditiously. – Mike Rook, GUILDFORD