In Zimbabwe, not enough money for elections

[The Northerner]

Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's electoral commission is not able to conduct the country's elections this year unless it gets a cash injection from the government, a state-owned weekly newspaper reported on Sunday.

The commission was only given $8.5 million by the country's treasury, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Chairman Simpson Mutambanengwe said, according to the Sunday Mail. "We're barely surviving. There is no money."

Earlier this month, representatives of President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change party agreed that it would not be possible to have elections this year.

But last week, Mugabe's party called for general elections this year to end the country's two-year-old coalition government.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/17/zimbabwe.election/

[FLPanhandle]

1. From Africa's breadbasket to Africas basketcase.

Mugabe fucked that country up for generations to come.

[Springer9]

2. How can you say that?

Before Mugabe, evil white farmers made up less than 1% of the population but held about 70% of the most arable land. In 2000 Mugabe began to confiscate the land and return it to the indigenous, rightful owners with compulsory land redistribution.
His heart was in the right place, is it his fault that the redistribution scheme failed?

[provis99]

3. actually, yes, it is Mugabe's fault 100%.

and the economic security of black Zimbabweans has plummeted since redistribution. so I assume your post is meant to be sarcastic.

[mythology]

4. One can only hope it is sarcastic

Mugabe really should get to spend the rest of his life rotting in a small cell.