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  • The policies have reduced the one-time bread-basket of southern

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Zimbabwe, the bread-basket of Africa, has been systematically turned into a basket-case by the Marxist Mugabe and I can't recall too many protest by Tutu.

    Archive 2008-12-24 2008

  • The policies have reduced the one-time bread-basket of southern

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • It's no secret that folks in bread-basket America don't read, listen or believe for one minute the data from pollsters or pundits, as it has been proven time and again that most voters "intentionally lie" to them.

    Obama/McCain: The Devil We Do Know vs The Devil We Don't Know 2008

  • The population of what was once the “bread-basket” of Africa is starving with a third of Zimbabweans suffering from malnutrition.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Stephen Retherford 2008

  • In the middle of a drought in America's bread-basket, which was causing a higher than normal inflation, government banking policies, reflected the "LA$$IZE FAIRE" i.e. "que sera sera" attitude of government towards bankers and banking laws.

    Will Bush be the Author of the Greatest Depression Known to Mankind? 2008

  • Zimbabwe, once the bread-basket of the region, recently announced it would need to import hundreds of thousands of tonnes of maize.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • It also plays into the hands of many around the world who wonder why the US fails to do anything significant about problems such as Zimbabwe, a country with no oil though previously the bread-basket of southern Africa.

    03/26/2005 2005

  • Once the bread-basket of Southern Africa, now on the verge of total collapse.

    Madison windowscape and graffiti. Ann Althouse 2007

  • Obiang Nguema, 65, was flanked by host Robert Mugabe at the show, which has drawn farmers across the nation, once Africa's bread-basket.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

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