Only in South Africa

Radio and transmitting equipment that stood on a 30m-high tower at the airport here was stolen at the weekend by suspected scrap-metal thieves.

One of eight transmission towers at the airport was pulled over on Sunday to reach the equipment that contains a lot of copper. The thieves escaped in an airport tractor.

The transmission towers, which are within a 4km radius from the airport, help incoming aircraft to land safely on one of the two runways by sending radio signals from the airport to the aircraft.

The robbery brought the airport’s security, which will have to operate in heavy traffic during the Soccer World Cup in 2010, under scrutiny.

Harare - The annual rate of inflation in Zimbabwe, already the highest in the world, has hit a new high of 2.2 million percent, the central bank’s governor revealed on Wednesday.

“Statistics provided by the CSO (central statistical office) indicate that it is now at 2.2 (million percent),” Gideon Gono said in a brief address in Harare ahead of a speech by veteran President Robert Mugabe.

1 dinner, 2 beers, 1 mineral water-
Z$1.243 billion…back in March 08, now about 4 billion if not more.

Bear in mind that the Zimbabwe regime lopped off several zeros from their worthless currency some two years ago…what is presently going on there makes the 1920’s German Weimar Republic look tame by comparison. In fact, such inflation is a WORLD record - not even the worst Third World tinpot dictatorships of South America EVER managed to slide so low.

Z$ 300 Million for one beer and counting.

So much for hard currency!

one hundred million just to buy a single bread roll.

People are being attacked simply because they are from other countries or other races. The locals are even attacking people who have been here for four or five generations. The issue is supposedly over concerns of people taking their jobs. But if you saw what is really going on, you would laugh (if it weren’t so sad).

The native people of this area are most likely the laziest people on earth and they have not proper employment, nor are many fit for anything above parking lot attendants or street sweepers. This is not due to lack of opportunity, it is due to lack of interest in anything other than laying around. I realize this might sound a bit harsh for someone who has not been an eye witness to the happenings here.

For years the streets have being loaded with loafers and beggars, looters, con-men (and women),  prostitutes and robbers. They have a name for a very common crime here - “smash and grab” - imagine sitting in your car at a traffic light and someone comes right up to your car, smashes your window, grabs whatever you might have on the seat or dash board, grabs your cell phone out of your hand and they are away before you can even shout for help. This has been going on since the end of the ”apartheid.”

They don’t work - they lay around all day doing nothing. They are hustlers and hookers - drinkers and drug addicts. Here is a question - What “jobs” are these people worried about loosing?

Some 17 Xhosa-women were tortured while witchdoctors allegedly ‘harvested’ their wombs and genitals at the Mzamza village  which is located right next to the East Coast Casino at Bizana. Most of the women and girls who were so cruelly tortured to death worked at the nearby Casino.

GENITALS  WERE REMOVED WHILE VICTIMS WERE ALIVE… local witchdoctors have a standing order for ‘female genitals and wombs’ needed in their ‘traditional medicine’. They had thus unleashed a reign of terror, rape and murder in the village next to the East Coast Casino — where at least seventeen and possibly eighteen women were murdered in this very cruel fashion.

Police also confirm that, according to witchcraft-tradition, these women’s genitals and wombs also were removed while the victims were still alive to provide the ’strongest medicine’. Police are continuing with their investigations.