Absurd world

I admit having tried to ignore what is going on in Zimbabwe for a while. However impossible that is and how much I dislike my own attitude, I have done it. Guilty as charge.

Yesterday night I received a letter from a friend of a friend by e-mail, who writes from a chaotic, mad, isolated Zim, where whites are again losing their houses and homeless people are sleeping on the streets at zero degrees Celsius, with no food, water, anything.

There is no petrol, no provisions, no security, no hope. Fortunate, better-off families are taking "refugees from poverty" into their own homes, unable to send them back to the freezing streets.

The fears of failing to support themselves is an ever-increasing one as well as utility bills prices go up at staggering rates. Electricity will raise up to 250% next month.

Journalists were kicked out of the country once again and no one can see the real picture of what Mr Mugabe and his mob are doing to the, already, miserable, starving, desperate population.

It is useless and naive to ask these question, but... why isn't anybody doing anything to help? Why hasn't England (the former coloniser) done anything concrete to help this nation? Why Mbeki still treats Mugabe as an old pal and has washed his hands over this issue? Why the US, the sheriff of the world, has ignored the doings of the ZANU-PF and its chief? Why the result of the recent elections are still not out? Why are there so many English troops in Afghanistan and none in Zim?

This is one of those moments of History I feel ashamed of belonging to the same race as some of those bastards.