South African Officials Declare Border with Zimbabwe a Disaster

(11 December 08-RV)South African officials today declared the border with Zimbabwe a disaster area and warned that extraordinary measures are needed to control the rising number of cholera cases,16 thousand of which have been officially reported, and 800 of which have been fatal.
The Head of Communications at Caritas Internationalis, Patrick Nicholson says the people of Zimbabwe are faced with total social collapse…