Posted on 06/26/2011 3:21:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
......His mother, he says, built the 700-pupil local school, his father sat on the local council, and whenever his black neighbours need helping out - be it a fellow farmer borrowing a tractor, or the local police borrowing fuel for their cars - it is his door on which they knock.
....He has already handed over another farm he owns to a group of black settlers who turned up in 2006, since when, he says, he has done his best to be neighbourly.
He helps prepare the land for cultivation and offers advice when they need it, although driving through his estate, it is clear that some of what is now in black hands is being used for little more than subsistence agriculture.
Such goodwill, however, counts for little when groups of club-wielding "war veterans" - ostensibly men who fought in Zimbabwe's war for independence, but in practice often just hired thugs - turn up to demand a farmer's departure...
...What stung more, though, were the "Go back to Britain" slogans they shouted - meaningless to a man who is in fact of French Huguenot stock, has only ever held a Zimbabwean passport, and has nowhere else to go even if he wanted to.
Infuriatingly, the view that he has no longer a citizen of his own country is shared by the black prosecutor who will oversee his trespass case next week, who has described him in previous court appearances as merely a "visitor".
"I have never viewed myself as anything other than Zimbabwean, and that is what hurts me most," he said.
"We are not being looked at as citizens of this country, yet my father was born here before Robert Mugabe. What future do we have when you are fighting people of that mentality?"
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Oh, and this white farmer doesn’t understand the true traditional African Black nature..the romantic primitive..
Maybe he should watch Moochelle over in africa dancing with the African Blacks..or listen to the children of slaves here in the US sing African songs and celebrate Kwanza!
Good God, if Africa is so great why not go back there instead of wearing ridiculous “Black “colored hats or bumper stickers. They tried that in Liberia...ha.
If they had maintained free-market capitalism.
Imagine the Middle East without Israel.
The Perils of Designer Tribalism -- The culture cult of Leftists -- "......Whatever the current object of adulation— the wisdom of the East, tribal Africa, Aboriginal Australia, pre-Columbian America —the message is the same: the absolute superiority of Otherness. The Third Worldist looks to the orient, to the tribal, to the primitive not for what they really are but for their evocative distance from the reality of modern European society and values....."
Under the whites there was rule of law, private property and relative safety. Europeans actually vacationed there and had second homes. It was never a ‘free market’ poster child in the sense that Milton Freedman designed the system.
The White farmers should leave and let those left starve.
Indeed and so it did not stand a chance.
They’re all starving now.
Except Mugabe, his relatives and suck-up cronies.
The youth mobs are strung out on drugs and keep the masses in line for their highs.
Paradise.
I saw that myself and all I have to say is let the whole lot of filthy, savage, sorry little ingrates starve if that’s what happens. As far as I’m concerned the worst part about it is that this man did all eh could to be a good Christian neighbor and they’ve thrown it back in his face.
The problem is, that the white farmers are usually rejected when it comes to visas and chances for citizenship. Many would like to leave, but have nowhere to go.
“if Africa is so great why not go back there instead of wearing ridiculous “Black “colored hats or bumper stickers”
Because over here, whitey is paying for it and if they went to Africa, they would have to work to survive. Better over here, even if they won’t admit it.
>His mother, he says, built the 700-pupil local school..
These is no “diversity,” there is no “multi cultural” anything.
All just lies and propaganda to weaken the resolve of any ruling race and basically exterminate it.
Homosexuality, abortion, extinction.
Since his brethren have basically abrogated their leadership responsibilities, the new masters have rushed in to fill the void and are teaching him the real meaning of law as set forth in English common law which may be also set by “deed.”
The natural order is survival of the fittest and its happening here in America right now.
Leave, fight or just die.
For those Mugabe opponents left the options are run or expect more of the same. The world, especially Africa, will not aid a revolution against Mugabe.
The Perils of Designer Tribalism — The culture cult of Leftists — “
Thank you for the link
I don't know why there are any white people still foolish enough to remain in Zimbabwe willingly.
But all of this should come as no surprise to anyone, especially FREEPERS. Mugabe was a Marxist-Lennist even before he took power. He is also president for life.
The white farmers should just leave; it is difficult to start over. I understand some have gone to New Zealand.
thanks.
The same thing, but on a smaller scale, is happening over here[the U.S.]. As time goes by, it will increase in intensity and scope.
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They easily fed the country and had food for export elsewhere in Africa. They also had clean water, good hospitals and schools.
Not much left of it today.
Same in South Africa.
Not a single word on the ongoing famine this has caused.
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