Adrian Suskin on Robert Mugabe and Present-day Zimbabwe

Published: Nov. 10, 2015, 7 a.m.

b'Adrian is an American citizen, but he was born in what was then Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe.\\xa0 And he still has very strong ties to his home country, a land so prosperous it was called the Breadbasket of Africa.\\xa0 They boasted a literacy rate higher than in many Western countries.\\xa0 In Part 1, we talked about President Robert Mugabe\'s "nationalizing" the white-owned farms 2000, bringing the country to its knees in only five years.\\xa0 This was recorded in mid-2012, when inflation was so out of control, the government was printing $100,000,000,000,000.00 bills \\u2013 that\'s one hundred trillion dollars \\u2013 the life expectancy was back up to about 50 (it first dropped to the mid-30s), and unemployment was at about 90%.\\xa0 In Part 2 of this podcast, he talks about his Zimkids project, that feeds, clothes, educates, and teaches skills to Zimbabwean orphans.'