EBay - "10 x Zimbabwe 50 Billion Dollar banknotes-authentic money currency-2008/AA or AB"
Posted on 04/08/2019 5:05:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Zimbabwe is to start paying compensation this year to thousands of white farmers who lost land under former president Robert Mugabe’s land reform nearly two decades ago, the government said, as it seeks to bring closure to a highly divisive issue.
Two decades ago Mugabe’s government carried out at times violent evictions of 4,500 white farmers and redistributed the land to around 300,000 black families, arguing it was redressing imbalances from the colonial era.
But land reform still divides public opinion as opponents see it as a partisan process that left the country struggling to feed itself.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government sees the paying of compensation to white farmers as key to mend ties with the West, and set aside $17.5 million in this year’s budget to that end. The initial payments will target those in financial distress, while full compensation will be paid later. […]
Colonialists seized some of the best agricultural land and much of it remained in the hands of white farmers after independence in 1980, while many blacks were landless. …
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$17.5 million ain’t squat.
How nice of them. So they won’t kill the Whites after all?
“$17.5 million ain’t squat.”
Especially in Zimb currency.
Wait a minute! No one said they wouldn't do that!
“$17.5 million ain’t squat.”............................... You can buy 5Bn on ebay for about 75 cents. ??????
A lot of history redefinition here. The country wasn’t left “struggling to feed itself”, it was starving, much of it intentionally. And colonialists didn’t seize agricultural land, they created it.
“Check are in the mail, we sent them April 1st. Honest!”
“a partisan process that left the country struggling to feed itself.”
how’d that work out for ya?
I think the real reason the “colonialists” got the land back was because the indigenous people couldn’t make them profitable and were starving to death.
“Two decades ago Mugabe’s government carried out at times violent evictions of 4,500 white farmers and redistributed the land to around 300,000 black families ... that left the country struggling to feed itself.”
I think that about sums up the actual state of affairs.
Let them burn in the hellfire they created. I have to imagine some people will be tempted to take something as it’s better than nothing but there will be no justifiable outcome for their efforts.
“Mr. Dzirutwe couldn’t resist that dig at “colonialists”, could he. Not like the “best land” was being farmed when the “colonialists” came in, was it?”
Well, he certainly didn’t go into any details in that statement concerning how much work was involved in making it the “best land”.
EBay - "10 x Zimbabwe 50 Billion Dollar banknotes-authentic money currency-2008/AA or AB"
"I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
Whimpy.
Now that would take unrevising the history and exposing the left for what it really is, and all.
But land reform still divides public opinion as opponents see it as a partisan process that left the country struggling to feed itself.
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And that drop in economic productivity led to hyperinflation.
Colonialists seized some of the best agricultural land and much of it remained in the hands of white farmers after independence in 1980, while many blacks were landless. …
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Did they seize it or did they buy it?
A few thousand hardy tribe folk having their butts handed to them by the Ttsee fly till those Colonials showed up and made the land more productive than Momba breeding grounds
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