Generational Dynamics World View

[John J. Xenakis]

** 10-Mar-2020 World View: Zimbabwe life expectancy

Guest Wrote:> A doctor speaking of the current novel virus mentioned that 20% of
> the adults under 50 in Kenya had AIDS. FFS. He mentioned that TB
> was out of conrol and largely incurable strains were circulating
> there and in other parts of black Africa (ahem, I mean
> 'sub-Saharan Africa) and that if the novel virus hot it it would
> be catastrophic. Ah, yeah. Well, at least their imperialist white
> masters won't be there to oppress them, but the whites will be the
> first ones they shout for when they are in trouble.

> In 2003 Zimbabwe was going through hyperinflation and mass
> starvation. With skyrocketing AIDS rates, TB, cholera, and
> everything else, life expectancy fell to 36. That's right,
> 36. Well, that is until the black government threw 'racist'
> international the agency in charge if determining life expectancy
> out of the country. Now the Zimbabwean government claims life
> expectancy is 72 or something like that.

Zimbabwe's life expectancy crashed in the early 2000s because of the
democidal policies of Robert Mugabe. Mugabe, from the Shona tribe,
freely tortured, slaughtered, raped and jailed members of his hated
political opponents, the Nbdele tribe. This included Operation
Gukurahundi, the genocidal war crime that brought in North Korean
soldiers to help exterminate tens of thousands of civilians in the
hated Ndebele tribe in the early 1980s.

In the late 1990s, Mugabe started his indigenization program, where he
confiscated farms run by whites and gave them to his corrupt Shona
political cronies who didn't know how to run a farm. Thus, Zimbabwe
went from being the breadbasket of southern Africa to being an almost
total basket case. Unfortunately, this indigenization program is
still continuing, which is why Zimbabwe continues to be an ongoing
disaster.

Here's an article published in 2006:

-- Life expectancy / Zimbabweans have 'shortest lives'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4890508.stm
(BBC, 8-Apr-2006)

It gives the life expectancy for women at 34, and men at 37.

Since that time, the life expectancy has gradually increased
(presumably because Mugabe's corrupt Shona cronies may have learned a
little bit about farming), and it's now around 60.

** Zimbabwe Life Expectancy 1950-2020
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ZW...expectancy

---- Related article:

** 18-Jan-19 World View -- Zimbabwe returns to violence of Mugabe era with police beatings and abductions
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e190118