Posted on 05/12/2017 9:21:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again defended the chaotic land reform programme boasting that black tobacco farmers are now producing more of the golden leaf than the white commercial farmers during the colonial era.
Responding to questions soon after delivering a public lecture on command agriculture at the Midlands State University main campus in Gweru, Mnangagwa said the tobacco production figures justified government's seizure of prime land from the white commercial farmers.
"There used to be a man called Ian Smith who used to rule this country. At the height of production of their tobacco they used to produce 200 million kilogrammes of tobacco," Mngangagwa told the impressionable crowd.
However, he was quick to admit that the land reform programme triggered the collapse of tobacco production.
"When we took the land, taking it back to its rightful owners, tobacco production went down below 50 million kilogrammes," he said.
Mngangagwa said production has since rebounded and they are now producing more than what white commercial farmers used to produce before independence.
"Now we are above 222 million kilogrammes of tobacco a year and this is produced by a bigger number than the whites who were doing it and the cake is now spread to ordinary families in the countryside," Mngangagwa said.
"You can see how the revolutionary party remembers the people".
According to figures released by the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB), in 2014 tobacco farmers produced 216 million kg of the golden leaf with the country realising $684 million from the sales.
In 2015, the figure went down to 198.95 million kg of tobacco earning the country $584 million.
This year, industry experts have projected that tobacco production output will reach around 205 million kg.
Flue cured bright leaf tobacco grown in NC averaged $2.00 per pound and 2,000 pounds per acre. It’s always been more than just feasible to raise a family and have a reasonably decent standard of living here planting 20 acres or so, provided that the whole family is involved and there are several children. It’s hard, dirty work, but satisfying and honest.
So they are now back to 1979's yield.
Ironic that emancipation for Blacks equates with doing the work slaves used to do 150 years ago.
Is this maybe because the’”white commercial farmers’ were producing food instead of tobacco?
Does black tobacco make good cigars?
Can you eat tobacco?
LOL
If you have to point out that one race exceeds at growing one crop of one kind of plant, it kind of begs the question, well, what about the REST of the crops?
If you have to point out that one race exceeds at growing one crop of one kind of plant, it kind of begs the question, well, what about the REST of the crops?
How dare they have the nerve to raise tobacco, the Devil’s weed. This is proof that they hate humanity.
That’s nice. Are you saying I’m wrong, that the British South Africa Company did not create property laws for the area later called Rhodesia?
It’s a matter of historical fact.
If you want to re-hash the Boer war here and who had the rights to Rhodesia, please leave the rest of us out of it. The comment I made is to point out what everyone knows, including the descendants of the Voortrekkers: the white Europeans created modern states where the black Africans had nothing but pre-historic nomadic tribes, and most weren’t native to the areas they now call “theirs”.
Now I’m off to watch a Breaker Morant rerun and feel suitably enraged...
I just returned from whirlwind tour of South Africa, Zimbabwe,Zambia & Botswana.
South Africa and Zimbabwe are poorly run. South Africa is getting worse while Zimbabwe is as bad as it gets. Zambia and Botswana are well run and getting better. A lot of the Afrikanner farmers went up to Zambia to farm. They have made Zambia a big exporter of food while Zimbabwe remains an importer of food. Black Zimbabwe’s are migrating illegally to South Africa. They are slightly more industrious than the zulus so they are taking jobs from Zulus in the cities. The zulus themselves themselves are known to be great warriors but poor workers. The ANC is starting to side with a splinter party which is demanding the expropriation of Afrikaner farms. They want to take South Africa the way of Rhodesia. The problem is that the generation of political elites who took over from Afrikaners 25 years ago—got safe comfortable sinecures and did nothing for the rest of south africa. so the level of frustration is mounting. that frustration is leveled at the easiest target. the afrikaners. The likelihood of civil war is growing.
Currently there are walls around everything of value everywhere you look in south africa. the hotels have squadrons of what look like stony faced street thugs in suit and tie. they look like they’re there to ward off any gang bangers from barging into the hotels in the downtown areas.
There are nice parts of south africa of course, especially along the coast between cape town and port elizabeth. But you have to know your way around. my tour was blessed with a first rate tour guide.
Mexico is also that kind of society: the 30% white Spaniards at the top engage in vicious violence to keep the Mestizo majority in line and live only behind heavily fortified walls.
And it will only get worse as the have nots continue to interpret their condition as the fault of the haves, not their own inabilities.
The so-called civilized world sentenced the white South Africans to death when they called for "majority" rule, as if the black Africans were going to respect anyone else's civil rights. They don't HAVE concepts like that. Zimbabwe under the mad thug Mugabe is proof positive.
And what does the rest of the world say when majority white countries try to maintain control of their lands and lives?
"That's racist".
Before Mugabe Rhodesia exported food. Today it is starving. The farms are in dis-ray and producing little. The economy is a total failure. The people live in fear and life is a cheap commodity of little worth.
Aint Marxism great?
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