The lunatics have taken over the asylum - African media, well documented

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One of the drawbacks to daily news and the mass media's endless hunt for 'today's news' is that this rarely allows for any kind of in-depth overview to emerge. And added to this endless conveyor belt of daily reported news, there's a local tendency in the Media to simply 'report' and rarely, if ever, explain what it all means. So this week here's more news without analysis, to give you a glimpse of a world that needs a vigorous scrubbing with a wirebrush and Detol.

The media here is offering few glimpses of the reality in Zimbabwe, apart from bizarre TV news items on 'how incredibly well the Zimbabwe stock market is performing' - so I thought a street-level view of what the ANC is allowing to happen, might be useful. Start off at this week's Letter From Zimbabwe. Then browse Cathy Buckle's main site African Tears.

(As to whether there's any truth in whispers of a connection between certain ANC members and the buying of cheap Zimbabwean farmland and real estate, (with mineral wealth beneath) as being the real reason Mugabe has been allowed to bring a once inspiring African democracy to its knees, only time will tell).

Now onto far more important things. Like whales and farting...

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19266&sa=57
(Free Register and worth it!)

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Great report by Ian Fraser!

The lunatics have taken over the asylum

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