Let’s see if we have this right.
Zimbabwe used to be the self-sufficient, “Breadbasket” of Africa. Now, it’s a basket case.
Today it has the highest inflation rate in the world (165,000 per cent – that’s not a misprint) and an 80 per cent unemployment rate. And President Robert Mugabe has given tyrant a bad name by unleashing a terror campaign against his political opposition that has converted his own political defeat into a sham re-election. His erstwhile opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai, the one who defeated him in the March 29 presidential election, is in hiding after Mugabe’s marauders intimidated, tortured and murdered members of his opposition party.
So, how bad was Rhodesia?