[Clive]

Mozambique is also offering inducements to Zim commercial farmers to take up 50 year commercial farm leases. The condition, apart from agricultural expertise, is that the farmers study Portugese which is Mozambique's commercial language. The Zim farmers already speak Shona which is the language of the employees.

[Clive]

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[cyborg]

When flying from Zambia to Zimbabwe, if you look down at the land, you can tell when you hit Zimbabwe because one minute you're looking at lush green then next thing it's all dry dirt :( Oh well, when Zimbabwe goes down the hole, they'll have no one to blame but themselves.

[dougherty]

It's a good thing other countries see how valuable these farmers are to feeding their people. However, how many years will it be until this country begins to murder the white farmers and drive them from their homes? It might be five years, it might be a a decade or two, but eventually it seems to happen in all of these countries.

[Katya]

Understanding of course that some of these farmers originally escaped similar fates in Mozambique and emigrated to Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe. I suspect many realize this may not end for a while, and who knows when the tide will turn back.
A good friend of mine is originally from Mozambique, for political reasons her family abandoned their farm in Mozambique and fled to Rhodesia, which also turned into a mistake and so they went to south Africa. In the end they returned to Portugal, the land their family had left a few generations back. Why keep trying? Apparently there is no place on earth like Africa, and many did not want to abandon all hope. My friend has been here in the states for almost five years and is anxiously waiting to become a citizen.