Zimbabwe celebrates 26 years of Independence today

"If there is one thing that no responsible Zimbabwean can deny today, it is that our country is in the throes of a devastating economic meltdown," wrote Jonathan Moyo, Mugabe's former information czar in a private weekly.

Moyo, who was last year shunned by his former mentor Mugabe when he decided to contest elections as an independent candidate, said the economy was the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front's (Zanu-PF) main enemy.

Moyo said Mugabe "and his cronies have no solution to the opposition outside [the] brutality of a knee-jerk law and order response of ruling by terror".



This 2 year old cartoon says all that it is necessary to say but you can go here to find out how bad it is today in Zimbabwe.

BREAKING NEWS FROM PRAVDA



One of the founders of Zimbabwe 's independence movement, James Chikerema, died in a hospital in Indianapolis, US on Friday. He was 81. PRAVDA

An uncle of Richard Mugabe he was a co-founder in 1948 of the first black nationalist political group in Rhodesia as Zimbabwe was known before independence from Britain in 1980 which grew to become the first resistance and guerrilla organization known as the Zimbabwe African People's Union , or ZAPU.

President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party was born out of a split in ZAPU.

Chikarema had been increasingly critical of Mugabe and left the country.

Finally the Govenrment run Chronicle says ....

Independence celebrations kicked off on a high note last night with a starstudded musical concert at the Harare International Conference Centre.

The country’s top musicians performed at the glittering concert to mark 26 years of Independence from colonial bondage.