[Nachum]

Idiots.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Australia, Canada and New Zealand should welcome them all.

[Unam Sanctam]

Racism pure and simple.

[NonValueAdded]

The Chocolate City (formerly known as The Crescent City) Mayor should be pleased someone is following his lead. Let them all starve. Our foreign aid dollars should not rescue them from this atrocity. Let the Chinese have them.

[Delta 21]

So ironic its frightening.

[mutley]

How and why is this story important to your average American?

[calex59]

Zimbabwe, once a net exporter of food, is battling to produce enough to feed itself, and instead relies heavily on donor support and food imports from other countries. Humanitarian aid agencies have warned that 1.4 million people will need urgent food aid this year.

Yep, sounds like the plan is working alright!/SAR

[CatoRenasci]

Too bad, so sad.

Perhaps it's time to evacuate all the remaining whites and let them rot.

What the natives (politically incorrect warning) have done to the once beautiful and prosperious Rhodesia is stunning - these people are no more fit to govern a country than a moron. In fact, a moron would do less damage.

I will say the politically incorrect truth: there is not a single country in Africa that is nearly so well run, or in which the average person is better off in terms of health, education, and security, than they were in 1955 before the European colonial powers left.

[HardStarboard]

Lets send a squad of Ethiopians up there and be done with Mugabe. We'd do Zim and all of Africa a favor!

[speedy]

I have been to Zimbabwe and thought it was a beautiful country, with an educated middle and entrepreneurial class of both blacks and whites. Wonderful people. The skilled black population is probably in an even worse situation than the skilled whites, many of whom have British passports and who in any event have at least a chance of assimilating in another Anglophone country.

Unfortunately, it is the uneducated blacks who outnumber the rest. They put Mugabe in power, and my guess is they would actually rather dispossess the white farmers and starve than live decent lives with whites running the agribusinesses. Similar to what Chavez is doing in Venezuela with the full support of the least productive people. Envy is a powerful motivation.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I don't want to see any more pictures of starving African children, and requests for more of my money. Nothing will change until African people demand better, and fight for it.

[Gay State Conservative]

Either Comrade Mugabe isn't aware that The Great Leap Forward was an unmitigated disaster...

...or he doesn't care.

[Signalman]

Zimbabwe's last remaining white commercial farmers have been told that a "lucky" few might be able to keep some land, but the future of farming was for blacks only.

The the whole country shall starve, thanks to collectivism. A common tale.

[Alouette]

Zimbabwe: the Palestine of Africa

[Centurion2000]

but the future of farming was for blacks only.

Hope the Zimbabweans enjoy starvation.

[B.O. Plenty]

Black farmers are pretty tasty when you are really, really hungry.....

Alfred Packer

[Billthedrill]

They keep pretending this is a black or white issue largely to deceive the world press, but the majority of the farmers - not necessarily the land-owners, but the farmers who fed the country - are black. All of the farmers, white or black, who were dispossesed were so because of party affiliation.

"We are basically looking at those white farmers who have been relating well in terms of good human relationships. Their names will be submitted to me and, after vetting, some will get offer letters for land."

This is fairly straightforward - play ball with the party and you'll be allowed to stay. That includes lining the necessary pockets. As despicable as it is for them to employ racial teminology in this it is more despicable still for the world press to allow them to get away with it.

[ccmay]

Their names will be submitted to me and, after vetting, some will get offer letters for land.

I hope they tell the baboon to shove it up his arse as they walk out the door, and I hope this country does not lift a finger to prevent what will happen afterwards. All of Africa needs to be taught a hard lesson in economics.

-ccm

[johnthebaptistmoore]

All of Zimbabwe's continuing problems are the fault of the incompetent United Nations as well as the fault of the incompetent Zimbabwe government.