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Zimbabwe Gives Land Back to White Farmers After Wrecking Economy
yahoo.com ^ | 03/14/2020 | Godfrey Marawanyika and Antony Sguazzin

Posted on 03/14/2020 1:48:00 PM PDT by devane617

Two decades after President Robert Mugabe wrecked Zimbabwe’s economy by urging black subsistence farmers to violently force white commercial farmers and their workers off their land, his successor has thrown in the towel.

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KEYWORDS: farmer; mugabe; rhodesia; white; zimbabwe
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To: devane617

Get them to re-invest and re-build, and then seize it again.

If I was a farmer I would require an irrevocable letter of credit I could call upon at a Swiss bank if the land was seized again.


41 posted on 03/14/2020 2:35:05 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Water, you forgot the water... maybe they did too...


42 posted on 03/14/2020 2:35:58 PM PDT by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: Kozy

can we find her posts? I thought she was in south africa


43 posted on 03/14/2020 2:36:48 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Waverunner

Chuckle...


44 posted on 03/14/2020 2:37:22 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (AOC the bartender would have had to work on the second floor at Miss KittyÂ’s saloon...)
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To: devane617

Is anyone surprised?


45 posted on 03/14/2020 2:44:29 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: dfwgator

It seems that blacks cannot live without whites.

They will follow the Crackas to the ends of the earth.

Seems to me to be like a parent-child relationship. The children want to be in charge, and when given the opportunity, screw things up so badly that the parents have to step in to restore order.

At this point, certain groups show up to agitate the blacks against the “racist” whites and the whole cycle repeats.


46 posted on 03/14/2020 2:45:35 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: Big Red Badger

“Didn’t they Hack them All to bits With Machetes?”

Machete me once, shame on you.
Machete me twice, shame on me.

How can “The Birthplace of Civilization” fail like that? Didn’t Wakanda help them?


47 posted on 03/14/2020 2:46:31 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“If you were a white farmer, who had been forced out, and was probably lucky to escape with your life, would you really be willing to go back after such experiences at the hands of a dictatorial government?????”

There you go.

If I were a white farmer, I’d look elsewhere for lands.

There’s no future there.


48 posted on 03/14/2020 2:46:38 PM PDT by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: BipolarBob

DITTO


49 posted on 03/14/2020 2:47:35 PM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Hambone 1934

You are right


50 posted on 03/14/2020 2:54:49 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: devane617
Mike yesterday Too late. You can't wreck a business (like a commercial farm) and then give the barren land back and say 'here fix it'. The government will have to provide ample capital a very low rates to help jump start these farms. Goes to show you, forced redistribution of wealth does not work. Taking wealth from those who know how to create it and use it and giving it to those who only know how to consume it does not fix society's inequalities. It only hurts everyone in the end.

Love this comment someone left

51 posted on 03/14/2020 2:57:22 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Mount Athos

I thought Russia was trying to get them to migrate to Ukraine and the wheat growing areas there to improve their harvests.


52 posted on 03/14/2020 2:58:21 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: Hambone 1934

Cathy Buckle still in Zimbabwe...Latest blog talks about corona virus in Zimbabwe


53 posted on 03/14/2020 2:58:57 PM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: Big Red Badger

“Didn’t they
Hack them All
to bits
With Machetes?”

That wasn’t the white farmers. It was tribal warfare between Hutus and Tutsis. The tribe that was full of short people cut off the legs of the tribe that was full of tall people.

And I think I heard most of the people doing the chopping were kids. It was real Lord of the Flies stuff. May God have mercy on our souls.


54 posted on 03/14/2020 3:00:38 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Mount Athos
Before it was Rhodesia it was called Southern Rhodesia. Northern Rhodesia was later renamed Zambia.

I think some Rhodesian whites stayed in the country because they were too destitute to be able to travel to another country.

55 posted on 03/14/2020 3:01:12 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: devane617

I don’t think I’d be running back to farm there. They have lost so much knowledge and experience that even white farmers can’t make them prosperous again.


56 posted on 03/14/2020 3:02:17 PM PDT by tiki
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To: gov_bean_ counter

They were most likely competent farmers at subsistence level, digging sticks and all that. Suh agriculturalists are able to produce enough for their families in most years. Giving them charge of big farms with machinery and they are at a loss and have not the capital to make use of what they have taken. Replacing factory farming with the digging stick does nothing for the urban population.


57 posted on 03/14/2020 3:02:40 PM PDT by arthurus ( myriad covfefe)
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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch

Thanks for posting her address.

Costco wouldn’t let me buy 6 month supply of toilet paper, then I read her blog. There is no panic buying in Zimbabwe because there ids no products to buy.

http://cathybuckle.co.zw/zimbabwe-waits-for-the-red-stain-of-coronavirus/


58 posted on 03/14/2020 3:12:29 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: devane617

Paging Bernie Sanders. Clean-up on Aisle 9.


59 posted on 03/14/2020 3:17:51 PM PDT by Rocky
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To: Kozy; Kathy

Ask her?


60 posted on 03/14/2020 3:18:41 PM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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