Everybody knows how bad
the situation is and how many people die of starvation in Zimbabwe. Now that
the liberation party has been in power for 35 years, the country is destroyed. Corruption,
self-enrichment and dictatorship have
destroyed a nation, and more than half
the population live in poverty, and the food
is scarce.
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| Daily Mail 2010 |
In 2010, the Daily
Mail published an article about the Zimbabwean people slaughtering an elephant
for food. The images tell the shocking story,
and that was six years ago. What has
changed, nothing? The situation is worse now, and
as long as the world ignores the plight of these poor people, Zimbabwe will be
no more.
The people flee the land,
and many millions have crossed over to South Africa, contributing to the
current problems the country faces. South Africa is on a downward spiral and
with the overflow of immigrants, we will probably be placed in a similar situation as Zimbabwe.
March 12, 2010
ARTICLE PUBLISHED ON THE DAILYMAIL.CO.UK (LINK BELOW)
We apologise for
these images but they speak more
eloquently than any politician of the plight of Zimbabwe's starving people (please read the article and yes the images do tell the story)
For us it is a saddening sight - a magnificent bull elephant struck down in his old age.
For us it is a saddening sight - a magnificent bull elephant struck down in his old age.
But for
the starving of Zimbabwe, it was little short of a miracle.
The
carcass provided a vital source of food, and hundreds of desperate villagers in
the Gonarezhou National Park descended on the dead animal within minutes of its
discovery.
Using
machetes, axes and knives made from tin cans
they set upon the six-ton carcass, which was found deep in scrubland.
Fights broke out as villagers battled to strip chunks of flesh from the animal and drag them away to feed their families.
It
took just one hour and 47 minutes for the 13ft-tall elephant to be reduced to a skeleton. Every part was used for food, even the trunk and ears.
The
bones of the 70-year-old animal were taken to boil for soup and within 24 hours
nothing was left but a blood-stained patch of earth.
The
images are undeniably shocking. But they
illustrate the terrible lengths to which
Zimbabweans are forced to go just to survive under Robert Mugabe.
Yesterday,
the Red Cross warned the situation in the former British colony is 'critical'
with 2.17million - one in four of the population - requiring urgent food aid.
READ
THE ENTIRE ARTICLE – ON THE DAILYMAIL
HERE
IS THE LINK
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