Posted on 08/27/2016 10:39:40 AM PDT by reaganaut1
BINDURA, Zimbabwe — Dozens of angry young men jumped off a truck in front of Agrippah Mutambara’s gate, shouting obscenities and threatening to seize his 530-acre farm in the name of Zimbabwe’s president. They tried to scale the fence, scattering only when he raised and cocked his gun.
Zimbabwe made international headlines when it started seizing white-owned farms in 2000. But Mr. Mutambara is not a white farmer. Far from it, he is a hero of this country’s war of liberation who served as Zimbabwe’s ambassador to three nations over two decades.
But when he defected from President Robert Mugabe’s party to join the opposition a few months ago, he immediately put his farm at risk.
“When it was happening to the whites, we thought we were redressing colonial wrongs,” said Mr. Mutambara, 64, who got his farm after it had been seized from a white farmer. “But now we realize it’s also coming back to us. It’s also haunting us.”
Zimbabwe is suffering one of its worst economic crises in years. Banks have run out of cash. The government is struggling to pay its workers. Public protests, including one in July that shut down the capital and a united show of force by the nation’s biggest opposition figures on Friday, have rattled Mr. Mugabe’s government.
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Mugabe is a socialist warlord thug, in a long line of tribal-feudal warlord thugs who have plagued Africa since the beginning of time.
About the only people who could put a stop to it are the equally brutal communist chinese.
Even the muslims will turn on their own after conquering a region, which is what we see in North Africa today.
Socialism is great...as long as you’re in the .00001% of the top.
Gosh.
So somebody claiming to be a black socialist turned out to just be a crook.
Funny how that works.
Blacky was happy when a black racist thug stole a white farm and gave it him.
Blacky didn’t realize that his farm could be taken in the very same way.
***Mugabe is a socialist warlord thug,***
Hey, watch it man! Mugabe was the media darling thirty five years ago in the USA and could DO NO WRONG! Even when he shot down civilian airliners and butchered the occupants or hacked to death missionaries and their families, he was the US Media’s “BLESSED BOY”!
He is Idi Amin reincarnate. He just had the country’s Olympians arrested because they won no gold medals..
That should tell you all you need to know about our “media” and their political affiliations.
Mugabe returned rhodesia to the stone ages.
Mugabe was a “Catholic Marxist,” and as such had the complete support of the U.S. Catholic bureaucracy and bishops back around 1980. They supported him as they supported the Communists in Central America.
Now, a member of the Catholic Hard Left is Pope, supporting Communists around the world.
Rhodesia was a prosperous country. Zimbabwe is a hellhole. Go figure.
I just read yesterday that Mugabe ordered the arrest of the entire Zimbabwe Olympic team because they didn’t win any medals. He ranted about how much money the government spent training them. Mugabe is a cross between Stalin and Idi Amin.
Madam Hillary Benghazi The Whore of islam, is taking notes.
“When it was happening to the whites, we thought we were redressing colonial wrongs,” said Mr. Mutambara, 64, who got his farm after it had been seized from a white farmer.
It wasn't just "happening," it was Mutambara who was doing it, and profiting handsomely from it. Now another party thief will come along and displace him. Perhaps he is afraid that he too will be murdered with an ax or clubbed to death with his daughter after she is gang-raped as happened to white farmers as recently as 2014 and 2013, respectively. If he isn't worried, he ought to be.
Or the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island...
“When it was happening to the whites, we thought we were redressing colonial wrongs,” said Mr. Mutambara, 64, who got his farm after it had been seized from a white farmer. “But now we realize it’s also coming back to us. It’s also haunting us.”
This guy finally figures it out, at long last. No rule of law and no private property rights means just that for ALL citizens.
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