4. Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in
Southern Africa known for its dramatic
andscape and diverse wildlife, much of it
within parks, reserves and safari areas. On
the Zambezi River, Victoria Falls make a
thundering 108m drop into narrow Batoka
Gorge, where there’s white-water rafting
and bungee-jumping. Downstream are
Matusadona and Mana Pools national
parks, home
Capital: Harare
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mPresident: Robert Mugabe
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mPopulation: 14.15 million (2013) World
Bank
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mCurrencies: United States Dollar, Euro, Botswana
pula, Pound sterling, South African rand
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mOfficial languages: Shona, English,
Ndebele
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6. • THE MOST EDUCATED PRESIDENT IN THE WORLD 6
DEGRES AND 4 OF THEM AT MASTERS LEVEL
• THE MOST LONG SERVING PRESIDENT- 35 YEARS
• THE OLDEST PRESIDENT - 93 YEARS
• BRITISH KNIGHT
• USED TO BE THE MOSTED LOVED PRESIDENT IN
AMERICA AND EUROPE BUT NOW THE MOST HATED
PERSON IN AMERICA AND EUROPE .
• AT 93 HE STILL WALKS , TALKS AND VERY ACITVE
PRESIDENT OF ZIMBABWE
7.
8. DID YOU KNOW THAT ?
THE LARGEST WATER FALL IS IN
ZIMBABWE CALLED - VICTORA FALLS
9. DID YOU KNOW THAT HARARE ?? WAS
VOTED ONE OF THE BEST CITIES IN
AFRICA
12. ECONOMY
• Zimbabwe got independence in 1980 from the British
• 1980 -2000 Zimbabwe was one of the richest countries and strongest economy in africa with 1
zim dollar = 1us dollar
• in 2000 conflict between zimbabwe and (Britain , America and EU started ) OVER LAND
OWNERSHIP
• Our government started land reform programme in 2000 of giving land to the landless and
majority people of zimbabwe
• 5% of population the British farmers owed 80 percent of the land in zimbabwe
• so our government sorted to resolve this by land redistribution meaning taking land that is not
being used by the british farmers
• Zimbabwe was put under illegal Economic Sanctions up to date .
• this killed the economy of zimbabwe and destroyed our local currency
13. Effects of illegal economic
sanctions on Zimbabwe
• losses over 42 billion dollars
• no direct investment
• industries closed
• unemployment increased
• local currency collapsed
• hospitals closed
• education collapsed - Zimbabwe has the highest literarcy rate in
Africa together with Tunisia at 98%
14. health care
Private and public health systems exist in parallel. The public system serves the vast majority of
the population, but is chronically underfunded and understaffed. The wealthiest 20% of the
population use the private system and are far better served.
HIV/AIDS
TB
MALARIA
TYPHOID
16. Why is america and western countries
so keen to control zimbabwe ???
• Largest alluvial diamond fields marange diamonds
• 2nd largest producer of platinum in the world
• largest supplier or uranium to russia
• best agricultural soils
• moderate tempurature - summer max 28 degree
• winter minium temperate - 10 degrees
