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Article: To save Zimbabwe, South Africa must step up.(OPINION)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 19, 2008
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Byline: John Hughes
Provo, Utah -- Once one of the most beautiful and bountiful lands in Africa, Zimbabwe is fast becoming the worst disaster on the continent since Rwanda and Darfur.
Under the ruthless rule of its despotic strongman, Robert Mugabe, its economy is near collapse and its people live in fear, as the regime cracks down on political opponents. Thousands have died of malnutrition and starvation. So many have been buried in their remote villages that nobody can be sure what is now the country's actual population.
Mismanagement of the economy has produced inflation of an incredible 231 million percent, a figure undoubtedly outdated even ...