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Ping.

The white farmers should make a deal--they will return if Mugabe and his hundred closest advisors form a circular firing squad and kill each other.

When Mugabe took over, most of the farmers were packing their bags to go into exile when Mugabe publicly appealed to them to remain and help build a new Zimbabwe.

So many stayed and did help. Zimbabwe continued to be the breadbasket of southern Africa until 2000 when Mugabe decided that he heeded a class of people to scapegoat.

Now these farmers have been driven off their land and the only Shona and Ndebele capable of commercial veldt farming, (the former salaried employees of the commercial farmers) have been driven into exile and the land lies fallow and the rest of the economy is in tatters. Now Mugabe's people want to again appeal to the same group of farmers to return and help them rebuild Zimbabwe.

Unfortunately, some will believe him again.

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

Meanwhile, Mozambique and Zambia (and to a lesser extent, Nigeria) are offering inducements to expatriate Zim commercial farmers to take up 50 year farm leases.

Meanwhile, the volkerwanderung has grown to 4 million souls out of a population of 12 million, all of them black. Iafter all, there were only 50,000 whites in Zimbabwe in 2000, now drawn down by half.