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29-05-2009, 10:15 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8074701.stm
More than 60 British passport holders, reduced to poverty in Zimbabwe, are to be repatriated to Britain over the next few weeks.They are the first successful applicants to a UK government scheme to resettle elderly and vulnerable people unable to afford the move themselves.
All their savings were lost in years of hyper-inflation in Zimbabwe.
The government says it may eventually have to pay for the return of 750 of its citizens.
The scheme is available to people aged over 70 with medical or care needs.
Zimbabwe is such a sad story, a once prosperous country under our British Empire, now reduced to one of the worst states in the world with the racist Robert Mugabe incharge with his cronies. I think that man sums it up fantastically; "I came to a beautiful country and I will remember it as that."
More than 60 British passport holders, reduced to poverty in Zimbabwe, are to be repatriated to Britain over the next few weeks.They are the first successful applicants to a UK government scheme to resettle elderly and vulnerable people unable to afford the move themselves.
All their savings were lost in years of hyper-inflation in Zimbabwe.
The government says it may eventually have to pay for the return of 750 of its citizens.
The scheme is available to people aged over 70 with medical or care needs.
Zimbabwe is such a sad story, a once prosperous country under our British Empire, now reduced to one of the worst states in the world with the racist Robert Mugabe incharge with his cronies. I think that man sums it up fantastically; "I came to a beautiful country and I will remember it as that."