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Soulmate7
02-14-2009, 05:54 AM
MDC activist Sam Chakaipa returns to his village in rural Zimbabwe to find his friends and neighbours starving to death, reduced to panning gold powder from the rivers to exchange for food at an exorbitant rate
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/feb/11/zimbabwe-gold-panning-starvation-food

oceanblue
02-14-2009, 12:30 PM
In reality...

http://www.projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=10345

NorthernSanctuary
02-14-2009, 03:03 PM
The video is quite upsetting when you see what happens when the currency has no value.
Working a whole day for a loaf of broad; it can't happen here because .....??