Sinning or sinned against; George Charamba, secretary for information and publicity, ties in all the strands that make the real Zimbabwe story: a country under siege by foreign forces who yet accuse it of "digging its own grave". (Please turn the page).(ZIMBABWE ECONOMY: The real story) From: New African | Date: August 1, 2007| Author: Charamba, George | COPYRIGHT 2007 IC Publications Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Standard Western journalism and scholarship depicts Zimbabwe as a country in travail, or in the words of Todd Moss and Stewart Patrick of Harvard University, "a country on the edge". This Eurocentric perspective spews copious evidence in its support: Gukurahundi in the 1980s; mindless expropriation of "white-owned farms" from 2000 onwards; Operation Murambatsvina of 2005; "sadistic" bashing of an opposition on 11 March 2007, whose only crime was wanting to attend a prayer meeting m...

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