Posted on 11/27/2005 4:52:12 PM PST by blam
Farmer set on fire in Zimbabwe
By Peta Thornycroft at Ngawarati Farm, Norton
(Filed: 28/11/2005)
One of Zimbabwe's last remaining white farmers was strangled and burned to death in an attack inside his home yesterday.
Don Stewart, 68, was set upon shortly before dawn in the bedroom of his tightly-guarded homestead near Norton, 25 miles west of Harare. He was one of the last 300 white farmers left in Zimbabwe. There were 4,000 five years ago.
Police insisted that Mr Stewart's murder was the work of common criminals and had no political motive.
His assailants were unable to penetrate the barred windows and reinforced doors of his homestead on Ngawarati dairy farm.
Instead, they entered through the roof and strangled Mr Stewart in his bed. Then they covered him with a mattress, doused it in petrol and set him alight.
Several of Mr Stewart's workers tried to rescue him. But when they got inside the house, also through the roof, he was already dead. Nothing was stolen but a hunting rifle.
Mr Stewart, who was born in Britain, lived alone. After the strain of five years of continuous violence against white farmers, his wife, Margaret, had returned to Britain.
His son, David, worked alongside him on Ngawarati farm and lived a mile away in a cottage. He was too distraught to speak yesterday.
John Worsley-Worswick, the chief executive of Justice for Agriculture Trust, a pressure group, said: "We are appalled at the cold-blooded murder of yet another of Zimbabwe's few remaining productive commercial farmers. It was particularly abhorrent at this time of Zimbabwe's acute food crisis."
Zimbabwe's summer rains started last week but few crops have been planted. Commercial agriculture has collapsed following President Robert Mugabe's purge of white farmers.
Mr Stewart's murder came as the self-destruction of Zimbabwe's opposition allowed President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party to sweep to an easy victory in elections for a newly-created senate.
Ping.
The UN needs to be moved to Zimbabwe as soon as possible.
It's just 3-4,000 white guys and their families. Nothing to see. Move along.
Good thought!!
Communists do tend to create this scenario with some regularity: dispossess or kill all the successful farmers, expropriate their land and hand it over to your revolutionary compatriots, who then fail to plant anything. Then, blame it all on the United States.
I'm wondering when the Chinese will make their presence known, in the wreckage that was once Rhodesia. It has incredible mineral wealth and very productive farmland, that is, if anyone can be bothered to plant anything. And, it's soon to be populated solely by a bunch of murderous fools who will set upon one another with a vengeance, as soon as the few obvious-other "whites" have been slaughtered.
I hereby second the suggestion of post number 3
And the world call the USA tyranical war criminals. BAH!!
So who's going to milk the cows and goats twice a day now!? Hmmmm???? Still waiting! And so are the livestock. These people will starve and most likely good riddance.
Some victims clearly don't count. But of course in carrying out a poltically correct purge, black Zimbabweans also suffer because the once flourishing agriculture sector has been decimated.
I wonder where Jesse and Al are on this one?
They're down at the UN dock loading corn and wheat to bail out the dictator.
Nothing like killing the hand that feeds you.....animals.
they deserved it doncha know?
And then the worship of Mandella by the likes of The Most Ethical Couple In History will come into sharper focus.
"And then the worship of Mandella by the likes of The Most Ethical Couple In History will come into sharper focus."
There are some interesting predictions that I've read before, regarded as prophecy by some, from an old Boer that they called "Seer" something or other. He said that when the black leader who was once imprisoned dies, they won't be able to restrain themselves even to the end of the funeral rites, before the slaughter begins.
We should worry. South Africa did have some sophisticated military equipment, even nukes I believe.
There have been a lot of white South Africans working here in the ski and tourist industry for years. Ain't much there for them anymore. Sad. I know a couple who lives there. Capetown, I believe. Hope they'll be okay.
LIARS!!!!
The UN has been raping the US and maybe could learn something about being the receiver by actually having to exist in a third world country for a while.
Nothing wrong with a little anti-white ethnic cleansing when you're a black dictator or a pawn thereof.
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