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The real reason is because most of the productive farms in Zimbabwe were owned by whites, who had farmed them for about 100 years or so, say from the late 19th Century in what was, up until the 1980s, Rhodesia.

The blacks took over in the 1980s, renamed the country Zimbabwe, and that could have been fine; in fact, you could argue that that was much more fair and democratic. The white who remained, while a minority, were promised to be well treated and asked to be part of the new nation; most wholeheartedly agreed and simply went on with things as farmers do, planting and harvesting according to the seasons.

However, the Mugabe regime fought its way to power via demagoguery against the whites, and an appeal to tribalism, hatred, and socialism. In the past 15 years they have forcibly kicked white farmers off their land, taking everything they had without compensation, in many case even their lives. Hundreds were arrested for resisting, many even murdered.

Their farms were given over to “collectives” or communal farms made up of native blacks, many who had been farm laborers, but without any planning or management skills. Especially important to the Mugabe regime was rewarding the best farms and lands to political supporters and thugs who did the most vicious things in order to get the white farmers out of Zimbabwe. So now they are gone and these cornucopia farms are desolate, unproductive wastelands, that have been raped and pillaged by their new thug owners.

It is abject racism and inhumanity as evil as that which was ever done by any colonial power to natives anywhere, but hardly attracts notice from the UN or the global left wing media. Ho hum, they're getting what they deserve, some have even said. So I guess it's OK to fight injustice with injustice?

The world we live in truly sucks, and the modern powers-that-be are as bad as anything they've railed about.

Oh, and let me just add another thing, that is often misunderstood by the global driveby media, but is a very important fact:

The Ian Smith regime that was the last white minority government in Rhodesia fought for its survival brutally. Many, many black natives were oppressed, tortured and killed. Still, this regime fought against groups that ran the spectrum from true patriots to especially evil thugs. The thugs were sponsored and supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba, and the various communist governments that these two powers had set up in Angola and Mozambique in the late 1970s (thank you Jimmy Carter!).

The Leftist news coverage of events in Africa from the end of WWII followed a meme that any overthrow of a colonial power, or even native whites themselves (as in South Africa, the Boer settlers were there BEFORE the Bantu tribes which migrated down in the 1700-1900s) is good and noble. Call it the Ghandi-zation of the Third World. Whether that colonial government was good and fair to the people, and whether the people prospered under it was simply not a thought, rather, they must be overthrown as all colonial power was/is fascist, oppressive, and evil. White is evil. So the Smith regime was Nazi Germany, and the various black factions fighting it was George Washington and his soldiers crossing the Delaware.

The Smith regime lost not because of this, but because they WERE NOT this! They succumbed to the world-wide pressure and condemnation because they had a conscience and could not consciously be brutal enough to keep their power.

Sadly, the most brutal of the confederates who fought against them had and has no such compunctions! Mugabe IS the brutal thug that the global driveby media tried to make Ian Smith. Sure, Smith was wrong, but in the end he gave up rather than putting the native Zimbabweans through Nazi Gotterdamerung and extermination camps.

Mugabe has no such respect for whites. And lets not forget that once the Smith regime gave up, Mugabe fought viciously and brutally against his black compatriots in order to place himself in absolute power. The latest elections, which Mugabe lost, were simply stolen and the winning party was once again brutally oppressed. Here are black on black atrocities the Leftist press simply will not cover.

I know about all the horror stories. I follow all the threads here, and in the news about that country. That’s why I mentioned “the Horror stories” in my last sentence.
But,,, the article clearly states that the farms are now growing “maize” instead of coffee. That may be because of the starvation going on there. Can’t eat coffee beans, but you can stay alive eating corn. Sure, you can sell the coffee beans, but with their inflation running rampant, how much can you buy with the devalued currency?