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...have fled, and an outbreak of cholera - that sure mark of destitution - has killed close to 5,000 and infected 20 times that number in the past year. What's to buy in Zimbabwe? "Graves," my neighbor replies. "Private cemeteries. Other places, I'll do minerals, farms, forests. In Zim, I'm in death...
...South Africa. The infrastructure, the roads were well done, the railways and telephones were good, the health sector was good. The schools were the best in Africa - we had a 86-90% literacy rate. We had a sophisticated economy. And the Zimbabwean dollar was strong. In 1980, one Zim dollar was one pound sterling - or two American dollars...
...invade the farms and crush the farmers. But one the results was economic collapse. Inflation is 4,000%, according to business people I talk to. Prices double in two days. People are leaving the country. You can't survive here. The government pretends the exchange rate is 250 Zim dollars to the [ U.S.] dollar; in reality it's 25,000. It's disastrous. And as people leave, Mugabe's people, who have a lock on foreign currency in Zimbabwe, are buying up every business in Bulawayo. Everything is geared towards the advancement of Mugabe and his party elite...
...Billy Herman was the best of them,? remembered Berry, ?but Zim is not gonna win any after-dinner awards...
...should say, many of us BLOHARDS, myself included, have a soft spot for Zimmer. Just last year, when I and a tablemate were dissecting Francona during the spring luncheon, I wondered aloud how many World Series Zim might?ve led the Sox to in a wild-card era. ?Yeah,? said the other fellow. ?Zim wasn?t so bad.? The Sox were going good at that time in the spring of ?04, and in such periods, when the boys are winning at a spirited clip, the BLOHARDS are sweet and charitable folk...