CNN reports Zimbabwe's housing sham.
A while back the government of Zimbabwe demolished many shanty houses and disrupted street businesses in the name of cleaning up the city. They promised to rebuild.
I was asking then how they could rebuild when they don't have enough money to feed people. It seems a good political ploy - push the people into the rural, more media controlled, less "liberal" places so that the government will not be challenged.
My pithy comment - while they are at the forced migration political strategy, why don't they screw their economy so their people can't eat, knock down any chance at an income they had and send them into the wild, while giving your political supporters land they do not have to use. It is a excellent political strategy to eliminate competition...literally.
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