Zimbabwe

Question 1

When was Robert Mugabe elected president?

Answer 1

1980

Question 2

What did Mugabe do that led to a collapse in the economy?

Answer 2

Taken highly productive farmlands from the minority whites and given them to war veterans

Question 3

What has land issues caused?

Answer 3

• As whites held 70% of the most arable land and it was taken from them, the country sharply declined. Infertile led to finance problems. . -Shortage of goods
• less being exported

Question 4

What did the fiancee problems cause?

Answer 4

• Inflation rising by an annual rate of 32% in 1998
• 2008 the four major hospitals collapsed
• due to hyperinflation, hospitals are unable to buy essentials
• prices double every 1.3 days