Zimbabwe Breaks - and a wounded nation grows angry

A certain teacher told me the other day that students only went to school for 23 days this year - it's too much. They have been sitting at home on one very long and expensive holiday for a whole year. - Anonymous in Zimbabwe

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk We have been very patient, waiting all this time for a peaceful solution. It is getting to be too much now. It is beyond what anyone can face; what an individual can take. The cutting off of the city's water when there's a cholera outbreak, the cash withdrawal limit and now the security forces becoming undisciplined. We deserve a better life. We are not a country at war but look at the kind of life we are living. What on earth is going on? We had always thought that the soldiers here in Zimbabwe were puppets of the state I don't think there's a living soul in Harare who trusts the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) to provide water that is fit for human consumption. We have become a very angry people.