- Dear Family and Friends,
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- I have spent hours today trying to compose this letter
but my mind is filled with the horror of what happened in a Russian school.
This morning my television tells me 250 people are dead and that 70% are
children. As a mother, even one child dying is too many. I have only questions
in my head, and sorrow for all who have suffered. I feel almost ashamed
to write about Zimbabwe's problems after such horror and so my letter this
week is about numbers, they speak louder than any words I can write.
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- Zimbabwe Tobacco production: 2000 - 237 million kilograms
- Zimbabwe Tobacco production: 2004 64 million kilograms
- one packet of 20 cigarettes in 2000 - $22.
- one packet of 20 cigarettes in 2004 - $4500.
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- Zimbabwe wheat production 2001: 314 thousand tonnes
- Zimbabwe wheat production 2003: 50 thousand tonnes
- one loaf of bread in 2000 : $21.
- one loaf of bread in 2004: $3500
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- Zimbabwe milk production 2001: 160 000 tonnes
- Zimbabwe milk production 2003: 100 000 tonnes
- One litre of milk in 2000: $15.
- One litre of milk in 2004:$ 2600
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- One dozen eggs in 2000: $36
- One dozen eggs in 2004: $7500.
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- one bag of sugar in 2000:$40.
- one bag of sugar in 2004: $5303
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- Harare Agricultural show total livestock exhibits 2004:
9 cattle, 2 goats, 3
- sheep.
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- Zimbabwe Tourism Earnings 1999: 200 million $
- Zimbabwe Tourism Earnings 2003: 44 million $
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- I end this week with numbers using a quote from the Zimbabwe
Independent: "Baton wielding riot policed on Wednesday broke up pro-democracy
demonstrations in the capital arresting at least 44 activists."
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- Until next week,
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- with love, cathy.
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- Copyright cathy buckle 4 September 2004
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