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The UK annexed Southern Rhodesia from the [British] South
Africa Company in 1923. A 1961 constitution was formulated
that favored whites in power. In 1965 the government unilaterally
declared its independence, but the UK did not recognize
the act and demanded more complete voting rights for the
black African majority in the country (then called Rhodesia).
UN sanctions and a guerrilla uprising finally led to free
elections in 1979 and independence (as Zimbabwe) in 1980.
Robert MUGABE, the nation's first prime minister, has
been the country's only ruler (as president since 1987)
and has dominated the country's political system since
independence. His chaotic land redistribution campaign,
which began in 2000, caused an exodus of white farmers,
crippled the economy, and ushered in widespread shortages
of basic commodities. Ignoring international condemnation,
MUGABE rigged the 2002 presidential election to ensure
his reelection. The ruling ZANU-PF party used fraud and
intimidation to win a two-thirds majority in the March
2005 parliamentary election, allowing it to amend the
constitution at will and recreate the Senate, which had
been abolished in the late 1980s. In April 2005, Harare
embarked on Operation Restore Order, ostensibly an urban
rationalization program, which resulted in the destruction
of the homes or businesses of 700,000 mostly poor supporters
of the opposition. President MUGABE in June 2007 instituted
price controls on all basic commodities causing panic
buying and leaving store shelves empty for months. General
elections held in March 2008 contained irregularities
but still amounted to a censure of the ZANU-PF-led government
with significant gains in opposition seats in parliament.
MDC opposition leader Morgan TSVANGIRAI won the presidential
polls, and may have won an out right majority, but official
results posted by the Zimbabwe Electoral Committee did
not reflect this. In the lead up to a run-off election
in late June 2008, considerable violence enacted against
opposition party members led to the withdrawal of TSVANGIRAI
from the ballot. Extensive evidence of vote tampering
and ballot-box stuffing resulted in international condemnation
of the process. Difficult negotiations over a power sharing
agreement, allowing MUGABE to remain as president and
creating the new position of prime minister for TSVANGIRAI,
were finally settled in February 2009. |
The government of Zimbabwe faces a wide variety of difficult
economic problems as it struggles with an unsustainable
fiscal deficit, an overvalued official exchange rate,
hyperinflation, and bare store shelves. Its 1998-2002
involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo drained hundreds of millions of dollars from the
economy. The government's land reform program, characterized
by chaos and violence, has badly damaged the commercial
farming sector, the traditional source of exports and
foreign exchange and the provider of 400,000 jobs, turning
Zimbabwe into a net importer of food products. The EU
and the US provide food aid on humanitarian grounds. Badly
needed support from the IMF has been suspended because
of the government's arrears on past loans and the government's
unwillingness to enact reforms that would stabilize the
economy. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe routinely prints
money to fund the budget deficit, causing the official
annual inflation rate to rise from 32% in 1998, to 133%
in 2004, 585% in 2005, passed 1000% in 2006, and 26000%
in November 2007, and to 11.2 million percent in 2008.
Meanwhile, the official exchange rate fell from approximately
1 (revalued) Zimbabwean dollar per US dollar in 2003 to
30,000 per US dollar in September 2007. |
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