| | With unemployment, inflation, poverty rates, and interest rates all running above 50%; with its external debt crisis and severe shortages of food, fuel, water, and electricity; with an AIDs epidemic killing 2,500 per week and an estimated quarter of its adult population HIV positive; with its nominally socialist government (one run by the same party that led a successful liberation struggle just two decades ago) riddled by rampant corruption and paralysed by the policy conditions laid down by its IMF/World Bank patrons whom it still periodically labels 'imperialist'; with the same 'socialist' government bogged down in an unpopular war in the Congo while it tries to repress and co-opt worker-community struggles for democratic constitutional and economic reforms at home, contemporary Zimbabwe seems to defy systematic analysis. |
