Zim Update

It's been a while since my last post, due to being on holiday. On my return I read a piece in the The Times of Tuesday 4th posted by Jan Raath in Harare concerning the deplorable situation. It is worth reading. Here are a few selected highlights:

• A loaf of bread now costs $Z30,000 but it costs $Zim50,000 to produce.
• Current inflation rate is 7600%
• Next year 450,000 tons of wheat are needed to be produced but only 78,000 are produced. Back in 1990 325,000 tons were produced.
• Now 80% of the population in Zimbabwe are living beneath the poverty line.
• An astonishing 3.4m of the population of Zimbabwe have left the country.

The country is in crisis. Two conversations with those who live, or have lived in Zimbabwe in recent years, by friends suggest that now there is a feeling that only external help can result in a change.