Posted on 02/01/2006 8:21:23 PM PST by blam
Mugabe moves against city whites
By Peta Thornycroft in Harare
(Filed: 02/02/2006)
President Robert Mugabe has begun confiscating and vandalising white-owned property in Zimbabwe's cities, after taking over most farms in the countryside.
His police last week evicted hundreds of people from their homes eight miles from the centre of Harare.
Ian Ross, 68, the owner of Gletwyn farm, incorporated into the capital in 1996, could hardly control himself as he recalled how police turfed his workers out into the rain.
"They arrived to evict the workers, which they did piece by piece, village by village compound by compound," said Mr Ross.
"The workers were dumped. They moved into sheds, into chicken runs. They were living like rabbits."
Mr Mugabe began violently evicting and dispossessing some 4,000 white farmers and hundreds of thousands of their workers in 2000. The whites were punished because the president said they supported and funded the opposition which almost beat him in the election that year.
But the campaign against his people escalated last winter when he sent bulldozers to flatten hundreds of thousands of small homes and markets in opposition areas in cities.
The United Nations said 2.4 million people were caught in Mr Mugabe's "Clean out the Filth" campaign. Now his cronies and the police are wreaking havoc on a daily basis on Gletwyn.
The police say homes will be built homes there. This will benefit a property company, Divine Homes, whose chairman is the deputy finance minister, David Chapfika.
Divine Homes says it is selling state land, Gletwyn, in 600 plots without title deeds or planning permission. The "problem over title deeds will sort itself out when all this settles down", said Washington Jengaenga, a Divine Homes executive.
John Worsley-Worswick, of Justice for Agriculture, said the takeovers were inevitable.
"This is the first full wholesale attack on a huge tract of land within the city limits," he said. "This is not anarchy by default. It has been well designed. No property is safe. They have nearly finished off the farms so they have to move to towns and cities."
Mr Ross was so disturbed by the latest attack on his workers that this week he won a court injunction restraining police. They were ordered to leave the workers alone and dismantle their barricades. But they were still in place three days later.
Divine Homes' earth-moving equipment now pounds across Gletwyn's 1,800 acres, chewing up fields, upending trees, destroying bore hole pumps, pipes and reservoirs.
"If I go, it will be in a box," Mr Ross said before driving off down a muddy track.
Ping.
If you are white there, get out!
I didn't know any whites were left???
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Oh if racist Jesse Jackson had his way in the good ol' US of A......
Mugabe's syphilis is getting worse...
Zim 'This is ethnic cleansing'
"We are not inviting any white farmers back, never," Didymus Mutasa was quoted as saying in state-run media. "The land is for black people."
Can anyone explain why any white person would live in Zimbabwe or South Africa?
If you judge Jesse by the content of his character he will accuse you of judging him by the color of his skin.
No wonder. They agree with this tyrant and murderer.
What a sad ending to a beautiful flourishing stable country once known as Rhodesia! The radical hate-mongers & left-wing socialists, communists and anti-white forces have succeeded in turning Rhodesia into a squalid, corrupt black warlord dictatorial country of Zimbabwe headed by one of Africa's worst dictators Robert Mugabe. But to the lefties & radical socialists around the world, they don't care at all about the suffering they have caused as long as they achieve their political & ideological objectives.
As usual, a snake in the grass is a snake in the grass. Dictators such as Mugabe are nothing more than scum of the earth. He like others who profess to want to help others never do. They are in it entirely for themselves. Sounds like the Clintons, doesn't it?
"What a sad ending to a beautiful flourishing stable country once known as Rhodesia!"
Zimbabwe is still a breadbasket. One that is run by Chinese agricultural corporations though.
"We are not inviting any white farmers back, never," Didymus Mutasa was quoted as saying in state-run media. "The land is for black people."
Because of the propaganda that the leftists in the media have created in the past 30 years have made out all whites in Africa to be racists and as such, no nation will let white africas into their country.
The white people in Zimbabwe and South Africa as trapped much in the same way the Jews were trapped in Nazi Germany right before the gettos were created.
This talked about on FR about a year and a half ago.
Exactly. There's no bigger anti-communist left in the world, but I've been getting outraged by these stories for 15 years. You'd think every white would be dead and 75% of everyone else would've starved by now.
I read these with a grain of salt now.
Magabe and the country of Zimbabwe are going to have to sink or swim. Any help that would be sent to help the people Magabe will confiscate.
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