A Quote by Thomas Mapfumo
Zimbabwe is a lost country. There is no money in Zimbabwe, everything stands still. The economy of the country is in shambles, the inflation is the highest in this world.
Related Quotes
I'm not even sure that I want to go back... The Zimbabwe that I really loved, the Zimbabwe that I grew up in, just isn't there anymore, and I'm not sure about the country that has replaced it.
Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.
On April 18, 1980, the last outpost of empire in Africa died. From Rhodesia's ashes rose a country that would take its place among the free nations as Zimbabwe, the last among equals. And men and women leapt to embrace this dream called Zimbabwe.
We moved to Zimbabwe when I was five, some years after Zimbabwe had gained independence.
What is the worst, is that you will have the meltdown of Zimbabwe that the IMF is talking about. And indeed what you will have is growing unemployment in Zimbabwe, growing impoverishment among the people, growing social conflict. And I think that is the worst sort of outcome, that collapse of Zimbabwe certainly would have a much, much worse effect on the region than mere image.
My view is that the time has come for the international community to act on Zimbabwe in the way that it did in Bosnia. I do not think that we are going to get free and fair elections in Zimbabwe.
Only al-Jazeera is allowed to report from Zimbabwe, but it is unwatchable. Their Zimbabwean reporter Supa Mandiwanzira was one of Zanu-PF's praise-singers at the reviled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.
Zimbabwe was still a relatively young country when I was living there and its post-apartheid society was only newly formed. Being a mixed-race child in that environment means that you have to think about crafting your own identity and you question why you belong in that world.
If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in March.
Russia is certainly no longer a free country. We are moving in the direction of Zimbabwe.
The struggle for Zimbabwe lit up the imagination of people around the world. In London, New York, Accra and Lagos, bell-bottomed men and women with big hair and towering platform shoes sang the dream of Zimbabwe in the words of the eponymous song by Bob Marley: Every man has the right to decide his own destiny.
Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.
The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe.
I guess you could say I'm lucky because I've known a Zimbabwe that didn't have Robert Mugabe leading it. One of the saddest things about Zimbabwe is there are so many hidden casualties of the Mugabe government's misrule. They're not just casualties that you immediately see.
If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first.
So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new money, and if in each country its governmental "Central Bank" (in the United States, the Federal Reserve) is the sole monopoly source and creator of all money, who then is responsible for the blight of inflation? Who except the very institution that is solely empowered to create money, that is, the Fed (and the Bank of England, and the Bank of Italy, and other central banks) itself?
Related Authors
Allan Savory Quotes
Zimbabwean
Scientist
Bruce Grobbelaar Quotes
Zimbabwean
Athlete
Dereck Chisora Quotes
Zimbabwean
Boxer
Emmerson Mnangagwa Quotes
Zimbabwean
Politician
Ian Smith Quotes
Zimbabwean
Politician
Jonathan Moyo Quotes
Zimbabwean
Politician
Joshua Nkomo Quotes
Zimbabwean
President
Kirsty Coventry Quotes
Zimbabwean
Athlete
Liz Chase Quotes
Zimbabwean
Athlete
Nick Price Quotes
Zimbabwean
Golfer
NoViolet Bulawayo Quotes
Zimbabwean
Author
Petina Gappah Quotes
Zimbabwean
Writer
Robert Mugabe Quotes
Zimbabwean
Statesman
Roy Bennett Quotes
Zimbabwean
Politician
Strive Masiyiwa Quotes
Zimbabwean
Businessman
Tsitsi Dangarembga Quotes
Zimbabwean
Novelist