[Clive]

This week's letter has not yet appeared on Cathy's web sire. The above is posted from Cathy's mailing to her mailing list.

The hyperlink that I have entered into the "Source URL" field is the location where a November 2008 letter ought to appear if and when Cathy is able to add it to the site.

[Clive]

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[Clive]

It should be noted that when the land was acquired in 1990, the legal title could not have been transferred unless the buyer obtained an official certificate to the effect that the land was not subject to contemplated redistribution.

Note also that nobody now has a fee simple in possession to any of the confiscated lands. This means that the persons in possession of the land have no capacity to give title to any purchaser or mortgagor. This means that any settlor has no power to mortgage or hypothocate as security for borrowing.

Cultivation of veldt land requires major expenditure of borrowed money for fertilization, ploughing, planting, irrigating, tending and harvesting. Without the farmer having the ability to award title, no lender will advance a loan. This even if inflation was not in seven figure percentages.

I am stating the obvious to anyone who has cultivated veldt, prairie or outback land, but the obvious seems to have escaped the notice of Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs.

Note also that even should the government award title deeds to those that it has settled upon the confiscated land, no lender could rely on a deed whose source is a government of thugs who might at any time, at whim and with impunity, again invade that land.

This is not a fanciful possibility. There have been instances of settlors having been placed upon the land, haveing started subsistence farming, put a season or more of work into it, and have had the land taken back when a Zanu PF cadre took a fancy to the land and decided that he wanted to become a gentleman farmer.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've never been offered or received any compensation for the assets seized.

Cathy...that one's *easy* to explain.Being Comrade Mugabe means never having to say you're sorry.

[pnh102]

Let Zimbabwe die off.

[PLMerite]

” I’ve never been offered or received any compensation for the assets seized.”

I can tell you why exactly: “Tough luck, whitey!”

[erman]

I've read these posts as a lurker for awhile..... I was wondering where is Frank/Bob/William/Sam/Albert (insert male name) Buckle? Why is she staying? Is there a "resistance" movement or did everybody just say, "screw this, I'm gone."?

I think back to Winston Churchill's quote "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed,

if you will not fight when victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.

There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

[PAR35]

bought in 1990

So they probably took over a farm from someone who had to flee in an earlier round. Perhaps her reward for her early support of Mugabe?

[Cindy]

ADDING this link here for archival purposes.

TREAS.gov - THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY - HP-1295: Washington, D.C. - "TREASURY DESIGNATES MUGABE REGIME CRONIES" (November 25, 2008)

[ladyjane]

Sounds like some of our inner cities.

[Inappropriate Laughter]

While some posters may be tired of Cathy and her situation, her letters are important, and poignant, reminders of the consequences Marxism, and black "liberation" ideology.

While "progressives" prattle about "speaking truth to power" from secure sinecures in university "African-American Studies," "Woman Studies," etc. Cathy is the real thing.