NEVER give them money. Aid supplies should also be given direct to the people needing them, preferably by the outside aid agency itself. Zimbabwe is a scandalous example of how a well-run, prosperous Rhodesia, which thrived even despite sanctions applied by enemies, fools and hypocrites abroad, was transformed into a broken state, bankrupt and reliant on foreign aid, by the greed, incompetence, graft and corruption of its black dictatorship.