January 20, 2019 at 9:38 AM
Subject: Zim
Folks: Zimbabwe, South African’s neighbor is busy melting down finally. This probably doesn’t mean much too many people but the tragedy is that this is going to happen to South Africa in pretty short order. This will have global implications. All communication lines are down in Zimbabwe very little news gets out. This is a rare glimpse into a countries melt down.
[01/18, 5:08 PM] Dirk: Hi everyone. I'm on the ground in Zimbabwe. I'm going to try and put this in cronological order to begin with.1) Last Friday Zuva petroleum ordered and paid for millions of litres of fuel. Zuva is Ed Mnangagwa & crony owned.
2) Saturday last ED calls a SONA at night and announces that fuel will increase by around 250% at midnight.
3) Zuva makes a cool 40m USD over night.
4) ED hires a 2m Dreamliner jet and flies out of the country the next day to Russia with an entourage of about 30.
5) Sunday last the ZCTU calls for a three day stay away to begin at midnight.
6) ED says he hopes thst companies won't put up their prices. Transport costs skyrocket overnight.
On Sunday night I decided not to open on Monday. I am a service provider and have trucks traversing Harare. The stay away starts slowly. Bulawayo begins to shut down first and serious riots break out. Harare is mixed: part open and part closed. As the day wears on serious messages begin to circulate warning cities: towns : all businesses: schools and all activities to close immediately and go home. Riots and skirmishes begin to break out everywhere. Roads are blocked with rocks & burning tyres. The social media/whattsapp warnings increase. Everything begins to shut down. At least two police stations and three toll gates are burned down. Vehicles that are moving are stoned burned or turned over. We are told to avoid service stations and government buildings etc. Tuesday morning just after 9am we suddenly lose the Internet and we resort to sms & phone calls. It's very, very hard to lose comms. No public transport moves at all nationwide and everything systematically shuts down. The stories will come out. From Monday night Chiwenga sends out the arny/CIO/Zanu PF militia in plain clothes to break into houses: beat:shoot : torture and intimidate. Zimbabwe knew it was coming and the people fight back. The rumours fly thick and fast. The ZRP are totally overwhelmed by angry Zimbabweans. To be continued.
[01/18, 5:09 PM] Dirk: Just got this message from Zim about the happenings on the ground so far....2)
The 48km peg to Bindura at Cheza, the bridge has been distroyed Nyanga road from Rusape barricaded with big stones and wood logs before Londonstore, Christmas pass Mutare closed with big stones motorists asked to go back, Domboshava 1 soldier killed by angry mob, a military 4 ton truck with armed soldiers fled Hatcliffe shopping center as civilians notified carrying 3 machine guns Beitbridge road closed at Ngundu Holt Gweru protest hits up as civilians attacking security forces Kadoma town is a no go area for security forces as angry mobs has declared civil war!!!
Army Helicopters in Bulawayo
Chirundu Border closed Zambia side
Shootings at plumtree Border
3 police cars burnt in Marondera
Hundreds injured in Harare, teargas and live ammunition being used and fires burning everywhere People have been set on fire Shops are being looted No electricity in Harare Doctors can't help anyone as nobody can get to work at hospitals because roads are barracaded everywhere and if they can get there, they are dealing with gunshot wounds, stabbings and shattered limbs - they still don't have any gloves or sanitary items to work with on these injured people and there are no painkiller drugs to be found as chemists want US dollars first as payment - there is NO money Government has SHUT ALL SOCIAL MEDIA and now all international text messages are blocked off so we are being held hostage in our own country - pleeeease someone help us!!!
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