Causes and consequences of Zimbabwe's dire economic predicament - David Coltart

David Coltart talks about what lessons South Africa can learn from Zimbabwe and more.

[@shawshank6015]

South Africa is on the brink of this,

[@barbaradavid-andersen5810]

Tragic state of affairs, beautiful 'Babwe and her people really, really deserve a break from the horror and harsh economic times they have experienced for decades. It's really enough for this magnificent country and her wonderful citizens. Breaks my heart and the world is silent, yet again.

[@theresahagen3229]

None of this has been reported on in South Africa ???

[@noexcuse6704]

It is massively disappointing how countries can be run into the ground like this. South Africa is on the same trajectory. It's mind boggling. Africa always chooses the most evil oppressive, worst possible outcome. I believe Africa gets what it deserves at the end of the day. It's really sad.

[@planetmikusha5898]

The consequences of democracy for a low IQ population is inescapable.

[@dorothymate9820]

Thank.you

[@fortunagebremedhin726]

Thank you👍🏾

[@fortunagebremedhin726]

Thank you✌🏾

[@delanocruz7958]

That was very Presidential by DC, keep it up.

[@southafricaawakening6666]

I agree with you 100% on what the causes of the state of Zimbabwe is but how on earth can South Africa help them? The ANC is incapable of controlling themselves or the South African population. In fact South Africa is using Zimbabwe as the model for them to follow. They are a lost cause and so is South Africa under any black government.

[@alexthebigcharm3037]

@John Muhleisen then you've probably never heard off Botswana

[@georgeabraham4285]

A self reliance Renaissance in agriculture? I like the online material for zim small holding farming, there's definitely creative project and even crowdfunding potential there. Nothing gives me more satisfaction than to see Zim locals getting an edge on things. Things will come round eventually. Some inventions are making a comback.. like wood gassifiers that ends up being really economical.

[@saozzie]

Don’t kid yourself, there is no hope for Zimbabwe.

[@grimsadventures-bikesnpetr7913]

A clever black man with integrity and ethics ,Malema take note....maybe you will learn something.....probably not.....

[@astraeashaw4768]

He wont - he cannot! He is in deep psychological trouble, the boy Malemaaaaaaaaaa. He is enraged by the White man whom he so desperately wants t be! He needs a good psychologicist t help him grow up and have some dignity. He has no idea what the word means. poor envious child that he is and he is being used, most cruelly and destructively by whoever it is that wants S. Africa destroyed 0 so that they can go in and pick up the pieces for pennies, probably. Like Greece.

[@martybisschoff6000]

Malema / Cyril / Mandela....et al.....has "dues" to pay.....Simple. The price? Entire country. At a bargain price. Simple.

[@gregdennis6584]

Why should we care? they got the government that they wished for. You reap what you sow. I only hope that the SA citizens reap what they sow, and by looks of things they are on the right track at full speed.

[@user-jr2ue9nu6y]

I wish it would go faster. I really think people on mass should vote BLF and bring in what they want.

[@auspiciousnkomo3071]

Put your feelings aside and put yourself in the shoes of blacks who were displaced and put in reserve camps while the colonizers looted all the wealth sending it to Europe, when they got comfortable they decided to make the lands their home while making black people work on it for next to nothing. We did not vote for the gvts that lead us today Zim or SA, these corrupt people are just puppets working for foreign business people funding them. Sanctions were put coz Mugabe was tired of being a puppet and pressure prompted the expropriation of land which led to sanctions, coz he was taking wealthy land from our colonizers. SA is not wrong for wanting its land back, however it comes bearing sanctions for messing with white people. It's sad really coz we cannot claim anything in their own land.

[@keithesaf08]

@@auspiciousnkomo3071 You misguided my friend. No country can outrun massive government corruption and mismanagement.

[@mikemushipe6023]

You need to care because the more zim struggles,the more zimbabweans come to South Africa in their numbers.The 3 million zim nationals in South Africa right now can easily turn into 8 million.

[@gregdennis6584]

@@mikemushipe6023 South Africa will then deserve what it gets. C' est la vie in Africa.

[@robinmclaren4596]

Only one solution for Zimbabwe is the military take over of ZanuPF. Difficult task but essential. .

[@Roadtrip53]

Ramaphosa going to Zimbabwe to convince Mnangagwa to stop corruption and follow his own constitution?!! LOL! That's like sending Al Capone to convince Lucky Luciano to stop committing crime. There is a reason Mnangagwa's nom de guerre is "The Crocodile."

[@rokfam]

Hard drugs or a hard hit on the head will convince me anyone who managed to achieve a leadership role in the ANC can ever be associated with cleaning anything up. To clean up is to harvest all the available loot.

[@martybisschoff6000]

Correct.

[@irenenichas1230]

Set a thief to catch a thief!

[@rokfam]

@@irenenichas1230 Rama Poser is an informer .. Mnangagwa had best don some armor on his back

[@davidverster9523]

Blacks are not to trusted .look at Piet Retief....therein lies the dilemna

[@marksommers6764]

I understand that the Zimbabwe currency reset has happened (as GESARA) and is a large part of this Global Currency Reset . IS THIS NOT TRUE ?

[@aldgranma2361]

Sounds good , anti abortion part ,

[@harmtimmerman9309]

How many people was killed in the genocide ?

[@alexthebigcharm3037]

Roughly 20000 but some estimates get it to as high as 30000

[@discoverrealityclover9620]

At this rate, relations between the West and Southern Africa may become close to non-existent. I really do think that African opposition parties, however well-intentioned, in the Western alliance have mis-calculated quite badly.

[@ragnarandersson2866]

They have burger king in Zimbabwe 🤣👍

[@africandreams5332]

Ragnar Andersson that’s nothing to celebrate, you will see more obesity high blood pressure and diabetes

[@TheCrownedeagle]

David, I beg to differ with you on the subject of apartheid. It was atrocioous indeed! However, Southern Rhodesia, as it was known then, was governed on very similar lines, by a white government. It was not called apartheid, but this is the conundrum, it was run by a very white government. Certainly, the economy was strong, and the country was a "bread basket." Neverhtheless, the white government, was made to step down, through sanctions, and other means, because the blacks wished to rule. We know what happened next, and I fear the same will happen to South Africa. We are hurtling towards the same result, or perhaps, something far worse. For a start, our population is much larger, and we have extremists making sure, that the country will become ungovernable, very soon. Crime is at an all time high, as you know, and farm murders and farm attacks are taking place on a daily basis now. We are heading for famine, looting and war. I shudder to think what the country is going to be like after the elections. Who even knows, if the elections will be fair? I do not hold out much hope.

[@cmavuso6068]

Linda Hunt you’re right but it is the CIA that will bring about strife in SA.

[@dominicmakarutsa4236]

Linda Hunt I also tend to differ with you Zimbabwe has never been a bread basket. Why do I say so. Because peasant farmers could feed themselves while commercial white farmers were busy farming stock feeds. White commercial farmers never care about feeding the nation but exporting their beef. Thus why when ever they was draught Zimbabwe had to import import food.

[@dutoitfamilie]

400 years and the bantoe are still running round in loincloth and knopkierie. Their low iq is the single most detrimental contributing factor they cant amount to run country. Because their numbers they can vote in all and any dumb legislation.

[@dutoitfamilie]

Steeling what they did not create.

[@danielchrist263]

Once a Rhodesian always a rhodesian. Who is polerising humanity more than your kith and kin. Democracy as defined by your kith and kin is failing the world over. Instead of bringing people together, politics of democracy is dividing humanity. It has failed us , especially in africa in general and in Zimbabwe in particuler.

[@alexthebigcharm3037]

We've never had democracy in Zimbabwe