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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Obama=Mugabe
Any nation that organizes its politics on racial lines deserves what it gets.
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.
Zimbawbe....coming to a neighborhood near you!
“Any nation that organizes its politics on racial lines deserves what it gets.’
Careful, thats what BO is doing.
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.
Well, not convinced, but it’s what I fear.
Are you saying you have no problem with that?
“Are you saying you have no problem with that?”
No, I’m saying I don’t want whats happening there to happen here.
Then the repossessed homes would become the ghetto and the inner cities would be rejuvenated.
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
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.
Basically that is what happened in Detroit. It worked out pretty well there. /s
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.
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.
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.
Exactly. See my tagline.
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.
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