{"id":194962,"date":"2008-08-06T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/zimbabwe-update-21\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T22:50:00","slug":"zimbabwe-update-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/zimbabwe-update-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there has been <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5h-t87Wv5EnlWoOPqdik2hkQOdwTw\">positive movement on power sharing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if that might have anything to do with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601116&amp;sid=a3GIU5BWbspQ&amp;refer=africa\">announcement by the MDC<\/a> that they have no intention of returning land seized from white farmers, though they will, &#8220;ask the international community and multilateral lenders to help compensate farmers whose farms were confiscated by Mugabe&#8217;s government since 2000&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It might also just be the fact that the only thing less popular in Zimbabwe than Mugabe is returning the land to white farmers.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, even with the New Zimbabwean dollar having 10 zeros dropped, it appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/08\/06\/africa\/AF-Zimbabwe-Money-Chaos.php\">gasoline coupon is the most trusted currency in the nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there has been positive movement on power sharing. I&#8217;m wondering if that might have anything to do with the announcement by the MDC that they have no intention of returning land seized from white farmers, though they will, &#8220;ask the international community and multilateral lenders to help compensate farmers whose farms were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1000,964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-elections","category-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}