Adrian Suskin on Robert Mugabe and Present-day Zimbabwe

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