Dear Family and Friends,

As Zimbabwe arrives at Christmas 2010 it is opportune to record what some of our leaders have been saying recently. Their words give insight into their thoughts and warnings as to where we may be heading in the 2011.

Speaking to delegates at the Zanu PF annual congress in Mutare, Mr Mugabe said it was time for revenge:

Dear Family and Friends,

Christmas in Zimbabwe is a sumptuous extravaganza of peaches and plums, litchis and apricots. It’s the time of flying ants and flame lilies, of dark purple skies and vivid, searing streaks of lightning crackling in the air. This year Christmas is coming with some of the most violent and torrential rain storms we have ever seen
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Dear Family and Friends,

Before dawn the sound of wheelbarrows fill my suburban neighbourhood. Around the craters which once were potholes, through cavernous gullies which are consuming the tar and around the muddy swamps where vehicles have skidded and got stuck. The wheelbarrows are negotiated through the deep sand drifts which have gathered on corners, i
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