Zimbabwe’s Vice President Kembo Mohadi has blamed the country’s former colonial masters, Britain for not teaching Zimbabweans how to run their economy.
He says since gaining independence from Britain in 1980, Zimbabweans only know how to run small businesses. pic.twitter.com/Leq1rbBlDw— Africa Facts Zone (@AfricaFactsZone) July 6, 2020
There's so much to say about this.
But that would mean the colonizers knew more about running an economy than Holders people. What is this guy, some kinda racist?
The thing is, had Rhodesia been allowed to still exist over time, more blacks would have become successful businessmen, and gradually achieved more political power, in a still prosperous country.
The problem was that you had Soviet agents forcing the issue and causing De-Colonization to be too swift, since they wanted to take advantage of the following chaos.
Africans only had what? Three or four thousand years to create Western Civilization? How did they squander all that time? Why did they let white men in Europe do it?
The first lesson is that the Best economy Isn’t run by government. Any government. By any Race.
Whoever is in control is to blame.
But that would mean the colonizers knew more about running an economy than Holders people. What is this guy, some kinda racist?
He very nearly said it: “we are too stupid to run our own affairs.”
“...”We got our independence but the white man never gave us knowledge on how to run our economy,”...”
So, Gee Kembo... you’re saying “the white man” was SMARTER than you???
Glad you admit it... :^)
He’s got a point. In most of the European colonies, there were few universities beyond teachers colleges, and almost no engineering, management, or hard science programs. If some African wanted those things, he would have to go to a college in Europe.
For example, only one of the top ten universities in Nigeria was founded before 1955, and most were founded well after independence. Zimbabwe had virtually no universities until the 1990s.
Whites are being portrayed as the villains of every story, who deserve to lose everything they have.
You can buy a 100 Trillion Dollar Zimbabwe bill for $89.
https://www.amazon.com/Zimbabwe-100-Trillion-Dollar-Note/dp/B00U1ZMYGC
CHAZ/CHOP had a short-lived experience running their own nation.
It takes a lot more to run a nation than just having a warlord bellowing out orders.
What happened to the garden(s)?
I’m pretty sure there were numerous comments from numerous people over the years, and people with real economic knowledge, who were flailing their arms and screaming at them what they were doing wrong and how to fix it.
South Africa is going the way of Zimbabwe. It will not be pretty. If I owned my home, I’d personally take in and sponsor a Boer family and help them get on their feet in the US.
They tried to tell them but they beat them up and robbed them.
From what I’ve been told by an old friend who was born there, shortly after the Blacks took power in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, the first thing they did was to take all of the big corporately run farms and divide them into 1-acre subsistence farms which were given to the locals.
Since there was no way that 100 1-acre farms could produce like 1 100-acre farm due to economy of scale, it was a doomed idea from the start. Nevermind that half of the “farmers” had no skills in agriculture to begin with!
Let me see.. You overthrow the white guys take their land.. Run the country into the ground then blame the white guys???
Drive productive people from the nation.
Act surprised when the nation becomes poor.
Demand aid.
Drive productive people from the nation.
Act surprised when the nation becomes poor.
Blame the victims of your pogroms for your problems.
Demand aid.
So they are admitting they on their own couldn’t figure out how to run an economy.
Wow. We’ll they’ve just vindicated The Bell Curve.