Further to our recent post, Zimbabwe Had So Much, with the spread of cholera, NPR's Ofeiba Quist-Arcton was reporting tonight on fears of a regional cholera crisis, spreading to Mozambique and Botswana, and the BBC has a frightening anonymous "Harare Diary:"
"The daily (cash withdrawal) limit is 500,000 Zimbabwean dollars and it affects us all whether we are a soldier or a struggling citizen. That amount cannot even buy you a loaf of bread, not even a packet of chips. It is nothing."
Soldiers have, according to the same Harare diary, finally maybe, just maybe, begun turning on the regime:
"the sight of soldiers rioting, ransacking and looting would be considered implausible...
But finally, no, it actually really, really happened.
People are so shocked that some soldiers did. I missed the greater part of the action because I work a bit out of town but by the time I got into the centre there were broken windows and looted shop fronts, although I'm not certain if the shops were looted or if shop owners emptied their shelves for safety.
The talk of the town is amazement - we had always thought that the soldiers here in Zimbabwe were puppets of the state and so this was in effect a demonstration against the state."
Cholera is rife and spreading and yet ATM's work as normal. It must be the beginning of the surreal, final end of the regime. Mustn't it?
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