$17.5 million ain’t squat.
How nice of them. So they won’t kill the Whites after all?
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”.
"I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
Whimpy.
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
Lefties will point to this as an example of reparations and why it should be done here.
20 years
17.5 million
4500 farmers......
So each of the 4500 farmers gets $3889.00 or $194.40 per year. Some were evicted violently by force, some by slow squatter encroachment.
Yeah, that’s fair...and that’s if no corrupt officials get their fingers into the ‘pie ya niyama’
And all the good productive farmland that wasn’t being cropped before the evil farmers showed up, how’s that national starvation rate working out for you now?!
Aboriginal until Christianity came to the bush. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to go back to “...tending their own garden...”
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Now for the funny part of the story. Farms forcibly taken from white farmers were given to “veterans” ( in reality Mugabe’s street thugs ). Some of those farms were so nice that they were forcibly taken away from the thugs who got them in the land grab by the government and given to other better politically connected thugs.
“Not like the “best land” was being farmed when the “colonialists” came in, was it?”
I cannot vouch for any accuracy in the paper at the link below, but it is an extensive history of what is now known as Zimbabwe.
I guess if you are born in Zimbabwe, whether “white” or “black” your view of how your family came to be where they are today, on the land and in the society, likely depends on your view of the history, as told in papers like this one:
https://www.sahistory.org.za/place/zimbabwe
Probably just a slush fund for the ruling Party elites.
Higher ups in the ZANU-PF Party somehow ended up personally holding the title to most of the farmland that was seized. Without the White farmers however, they did not make much money on the land, after the first big windfall from stealing it.
So they need to lure back some competent farmers to manage their estates.
My guess is that the farmers who come to work for the Party elites will get repaid for their land, as part of their compensation/incentive package.
Maybe it is even worse, and they will just pay some Whites who agree to be shell recipients, kicking back most of the payments under the table.