Africa wins again...
Posted on 10/03/2006 6:49:43 PM PDT by blam
Last stand for Zimbabwe's white farmers By Peta Thornycroft in Karoi (Filed: 04/10/2006)
A tiny court in a shabby farming town in Zimbabwe was the setting yesterday for a last despairing attempt to stop President Robert Mugabe from evicting the country's few surviving white landowners.
A new law about to pass parliament will, in effect, give the regime power in the next 90 days to dispossess the last few hundred white farmers who still cling to their land.
Two white farming families who have already received eviction letters appealed to the magistrates' court in Karoi to halt the orders.
If the Nel and Terblanche families lose the test case, there will be nothing in law to stop Mr Mugabe from eliminating the surviving white landowners.
Didymus Mutasa, the lands and security minister, is leading the final offensive. David Drury, the lawyer representing the two families, told the court that Mr Mutasa "has dragged my clients to court... in a futile bid to evict them".
He said the regime's application for the eviction of the Nel and Terblanche families was "incompetent, illegal and an abuse of all sorts of rules and all sorts of laws".
Mr Drury said the regime had already ignored a provisional high court order allowing the families to remain on their land. Earlier, officials had served eviction notices on the wrong people.
A constitutional amendment passed last year declared every acre of land that has ever been listed for seizure — about 6,000 white-owned farms in total — the property of the state. That move prevented the owners from having any recourse to the courts.
But Mr Drury's central argument was that the amendment "did not give the state powers to evict farmers... without due process of law and the status quo has to remain".
The magistrate, Archibald Dingani, will rule tomorrow on whether he accepts this argument.
On his decision hangs the fate not only of the Nel and Terblanche families but all of the last whites still clinging to their homes.
After the hearing, Daniel Nel, 44, who was a government-approved South African investor, asked: "I am a white African, so why must I go?" He said: "We are operating on about 20 per cent of the land we used to have, but we still produce many thousands of tonnes of crops, and do so with government loans. So why do they want us to go?"
Six years ago, 258 white farmers lived in Karoi district, 125 miles north-west of Harare. Today, only 11 remain. Across the country, the white farming community has plummeted from 4,000 landowners before Mr Mugabe's land grab in 2000 to a few hundred today.
Zimbabwe's economy has contracted by more than 40 per cent since 2000 and about one third of the population now depends on food aid.
Zim Ping.
Mugabe's problem is that there is still a vestige of British common law that Zim courts use.
He's about finished that, though, and any white in Zimbabwe who thinks he has a bright future while Mugabe still breathes is an idiot.
Not a word from the UN
Get out now. While you can still get out alive.
>> about one third of the population now depends on food aid.
Therein lies part of the problem. Food aid to dictatorial regimes only props up the tyrants. Cruel as it may sound, cut off the food aid and let them eat Mugabe. They'll be better off in the long run.
Remember: It's not discrimination when it's done to whites.
Just remember that evil white racist, sexist, homophobic, westerner oppressors....
where is the outrage over this?? oh yeah its about whites and they DESERVE IT. can jesse jackson help??
Maybe they think the aliens residing on Farakhan's space ship will come down and feed the starving citizens.
Been a long few days with serious family health issues. I'm not quite alert at the moment.
As Africa continues to eat itself alive.
Rhodesia was once the breadbasket of Africa. We got to meet a few Rhodesians in the 1970s from the 44th Rhodesia Squadron of the RAF. Most of these guys and their families are in Australia now...
If they haven't left yet, they're fools. They may be welcomed back again in a few years after mugabe is overthrown by his starving people, but for now, any white people in zim should run for their lives.
It's bigger than just the white landowners. There's NO WAY necessary international financing will go to that country as long as Mugabe is still in power.
It's going to be bad bad bad until someone stages a coup. Which in Africa could be next week.
Tyrants always seize the guns first. If they come for your gun, give it to them- 5.56 millimeters at a time.
Africa wins again...
"They may be welcomed back again in a few years after mugabe is overthrown by his starving people, but for now, any white people in zim should run for their lives."
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To complete your sentence, you should add 'and all black people who are not members of the Thug party better also run.'
Mugabe won't be happy til it's wall-to-wall thugocrats who bow to him. He'll be happy for about 8 months then all will be starving and they will kill him. That will be a start of the resumption of life in that country.
Maybe they can to the countries the earlier white emigrants went to according to the Wikipedia:
"White Zimbabweans/Rhodesians are now scattered around the world, with concentrations in the UK, Australia, South Africa and Canada."
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