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The last stand of Zimbabwe's white farmers
Globe and Mail ^ | March 20, 2009 | GEOFFREY YORK

Posted on 03/21/2009 6:06:04 PM PDT by george76

Nine years ago, Zimbabwe had more than 4,000 white-owned commercial farms. In a fresh wave of invasions, farmers keep their guns close at hand as ZANU-PF thugs lay siege to many of the 300 that remain .

Many of the invaded farms are sitting idle or neglected despite a desperate need for food in Zimbabwe, where three-quarters of the population is dependent on food aid from foreign donors.

Largely because of the invasions, Zimbabwe's farm output has dropped by 50 to 70 per cent in the past seven years, and most people subsist on one meal a day.

Mr. Mugabe reacted furiously, saying the tribunal's decision was “absolute nonsense.” He vowed to force out the white farmers, using a derogatory word for whites in the Shona language. “They must vacate those farms, they must vacate those farms, they must vacate those farms,” he thundered in a speech at the celebration of his 85th birthday last month.

Of the 30 white farmers in the Chegutu area, only about five are still on the land...

“Most of them are on the run, so the police don't find them.… This is ethnic cleansing, so that Mugabe can intimidate the population in the next election. He wants to get rid of the last white farmers.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: africa; farmers; mugabe; socialism; whites; zanupf; zimbabwe
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1 posted on 03/21/2009 6:06:04 PM PDT by george76
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To: Clive; SunkenCiv; Fred Nerks; LucyT; blam

2 posted on 03/21/2009 6:07:58 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Obama=Mugabe


3 posted on 03/21/2009 6:09:32 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: george76

Any nation that organizes its politics on racial lines deserves what it gets.


4 posted on 03/21/2009 6:12:12 PM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Tax the rich" fails if the rich won't play)
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To: george76

Isn’t it Obama’s plan to surround the houses of the rich and demand their money? The next logical step is for “poor people” to move into the houses. Yeah, this is America’s future.


5 posted on 03/21/2009 6:12:15 PM PDT by donna (Sarah Palin: "...all of us, who consider ourselves progressive...")
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To: george76

Zimbawbe....coming to a neighborhood near you!


6 posted on 03/21/2009 6:14:21 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: sionnsar

“Any nation that organizes its politics on racial lines deserves what it gets.’

Careful, thats what BO is doing.


7 posted on 03/21/2009 6:14:33 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: donna

I am convinced that Obama’s eventually going to take the foreclosed homes of middle to upper class neighborhoods and fill them with Section 8 recipients, then put the evicted former owners into ghetto public housing.


8 posted on 03/21/2009 6:17:42 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (The War on Poverty is over. Poverty won. - Howie Carr)
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To: To Hell With Poverty

Well, not convinced, but it’s what I fear.


9 posted on 03/21/2009 6:18:12 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (The War on Poverty is over. Poverty won. - Howie Carr)
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To: driftdiver
“Any nation that organizes its politics on racial lines deserves what it gets.’
Careful, thats what BO is doing.

Are you saying you have no problem with that?

10 posted on 03/21/2009 6:19:45 PM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Tax the rich" fails if the rich won't play)
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To: sionnsar

“Are you saying you have no problem with that?”

No, I’m saying I don’t want whats happening there to happen here.


11 posted on 03/21/2009 6:20:50 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: To Hell With Poverty

Then the repossessed homes would become the ghetto and the inner cities would be rejuvenated.


12 posted on 03/21/2009 6:25:32 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Worthy is the Lamb)
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To: driftdiver

Thats what we can expect when we elect a Socialist that sat under The Rev Wright for 20 years. The devil will take the Honkey.
barbra ann


13 posted on 03/21/2009 6:27:55 PM PDT by barb-tex (The new Repiblic will include the states of the Confederacy.)
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To: george76

So Mugabe has chased out the people who know how to farm, because they’re white. And agricultural production has dropped precipitously, to the detriment of Zimbabweans. See my tagline.


14 posted on 03/21/2009 6:29:02 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The biggest crimes in history were committed by governments. You've been warned.)
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To: donna
The next logical step is for “poor people” to move into the houses.

Basically that is what happened in Detroit. It worked out pretty well there. /s

15 posted on 03/21/2009 6:30:34 PM PDT by D Rider
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The thugs have repeatedly ordered Mr. Etheredge and his brother to surrender their 110-hectare citrus farm, one of the biggest in Zimbabwe with 6,000 tonnes of fruit waiting to be harvested this month.

Not too difficult to figure out what they're waiting for. Hungry thieves do at some point realize that it's smart to get the harvest in first.

Senate president Edna Madzongwe has been targeting the Etheredge farm for the past two years, though she is believed to have four other farms already in her possession. She visits the farm almost every day, accompanied by gangs of young men who tell the 50 farm workers that they must work for her now...The farm workers are deeply worried by the senator's attempt to seize the citrus farm. “When the oranges are gone, she will move on and leave us stranded,” says Fillipo Banda, the oldest of the employees. He doesn't know his age, but farm records show that he has been employed there for 58 years. “If these disturbances continue, I won't be able to feed my family,” he says... The workers remember that the senator paid them nothing when she seized the farm for two weeks last year. “If Edna comes, we'll die of hunger,” says Lodi Jizara, a tractor driver on the farm.

This isn't difficult. "Edna" is a thief. She has already stolen four other farms. She will steal this one as well. The tragedy is in what is not being reported by most of the media and tactfully left unmentioned by even this reporter - the people quoted are black. They are no part of the racist ideology that is behind this outright hijacking of a productive people. And "Edna" will have them working for her - or else. Race is only an excuse, and the ones who will slave or starve have the same color skin as their true oppressors.

At a dairy operation near the Etheredge place, a group of armed men are in control of the property, and the farmer has fled. “He will be allowed back to collect his belongings,” says a young man carrying a shotgun. Then, showing some unease about the challenge ahead, the gunman asks a visitor whether he thinks the farmer might be willing to return as a “partner” to show them how to run the dairy operation.

A "partner"? No. A slave. They will steal his life's work and hope that he will remain to teach them how to use it. It doesn't work that way. The only way out of this game is to see to it that the thieves starve first and not last as they usually do. That's a tough trick but it isn't impossible. Alas for beautiful, raped, ruined Rhodesia.

16 posted on 03/21/2009 6:32:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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I can tell you how the dairy operation will end up. The Mugabe criminals will live very well for a while, killing and eating the dairy cows, and then will express great surprise in about 4 months because there is no milk production from the non-cowless dairy.


17 posted on 03/21/2009 6:39:57 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: george76; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Most of them are on the run, so the police don't find them... This is ethnic cleansing, so that Mugabe can intimidate the population in the next election. He wants to get rid of the last white farmers.
Thanks geo.
18 posted on 03/21/2009 6:41:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: popdonnelly

Exactly. See my tagline.


19 posted on 03/21/2009 6:42:01 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: george76

Pull out and let the primitive savages starve. Perhaps a more enterprising nation will then take control of it. It is the natural way of nations, ignoring it is pure folly.


20 posted on 03/21/2009 6:43:59 PM PDT by SeminoleSoldier
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