In this respect it should not surprise anyone too much, that its Government is now planning an "African Disneyland": the area around the natural scenic Victoria falls in the West of the country to be upgraded so tourists still - one wool awaken a "sleeping giant" in this way, the Zimbabwean Minister of tourism suggests.

Zimbabwe is, together with the neighboring country Zambia, currently hosts of the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations. This fact alone has provoked scathing criticism by human rights activists. Finally, not only the once thriving tourism on the ground, but also the one or the other opposition lies in the land,when they took a Frederikshavn Oslo Color Line trip.

The opposition speaks of a "stolen election", Robert Mugabe but can celebrate: after a controversial election victory of African leaders for the seventh time is been sworn of as 's President.

The latter little will change in the near future probably: only last week, the celebrated his re-election and will go next year on a Frederikshavn Gøteborg Color Line trip, which was according to various observers dubious way since 33 years ruling dictator in a stadium in front of 60,000 spectators. A constitutional amendment had limited the presidential term to two periods before for the first time, explicitly not retroactively but what applies, so Mugabe may be around will come only birthday to his 99th in the fix, on a meaningful life after the policy to have to worry.

"Irrevocably gone are the days of colonialism", called the former freedom fighters to the cheering Stadium and announced full of fresh fact urge immediately to promote the partial expropriation of foreign companies in Zimbabwe, as it has been designed for a long time, now reinforced. That is ultimately no more than a logical continuation of Mugabe's "Indigenisierungspolitik", which culminated in the year 2000 in the expropriation and expulsion of thousands of white farmers.

The economy of the country, which was once known as "Africa's breadbasket", henceforth went to the dogs, in a historically unique inflation phase, the zeros on price tags increased in the meantime so rapidly as bacteria in laboratory cultures. The tourists perhaps not mainly therefore stayed away Zimbabwe, because the natural beauty of the Victoria falls due to missing casinos, shopping malls, new ferry irlande cherbourg rosslare and roller coasters would released them somehow to nude.

Latter interpretation however is due to a Western-oriented views, and as tourism Minister announced his "vision" of a good 220 million euro amusement park at the UN event in his country all the more resolutely: planned is something "ultra-modern, which attracts young people",