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MY TIME IN ZIMBABWE, PART TWO

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Map of Zimbabwe: Further to Part One, see-  https://bowandarrowman. blogspot.com/2024/05/my-time- in-zimbabwe-part-one.html?zx= 2fa72e432cb4157d , here is Part Two of my doing-a-JN two-part posting outlining my time in Zimbabwe. After a couple of days, our talks about privatisation got disrupted. It turned out that some leading members of the so-called indigenisation movement, a black power movement, had infiltrated the audience. This movement was very unhappy at how the ending of white rule of Zimbabwe hadn't benefitted ordinary black Zimbabweans. Quite the reverse, during white rule, Zimbabwe was self-sufficient in food. Now there there regular food shortages, massive price increases of the basics to get by in life and many people left unemployed; the Zimbabwean dollar was effectively worthless - I'm not defending white rule, by the way. After the end of white rule, Zimbabwe effectively became a very corrupt and even more impoverished one party-state led by Robert Mugabe; rep...

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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Below is, bar for my petition to get JN reinstated which triggered my ban from AFF, my last blog post submitted to Adult FriendFinder (AFF). Predictably, and for some arbitrary reason. it got denied. I thought I'd re-post it here as I know it won't get denied. ______________________________ ______________________________ _____________ POLITICS ON A SEX SITE! Probably most people here know that I'm a politics junkie. I was a university lecturer both teaching and researching politics. All lecturers specialise because there's no way of keeping up with all that's published in the discipline. My specialism was public policy - how governments make (or don't make) decisions - though I dabbled in political economy and comparative politics. I realise that many people, both here on this site and elsewhere, aren't into politics. Politics, a bit like religion, can be a divisive issue. Politics tends to be divisive if politics is seen only as party politics. Party politi...