Posted on 12/01/2011 5:53:04 PM PST by grundle
Economic consultant John Robertson suggests that agricultural output is only around 50% of the level it was before the land invasions began in 2000.
The country is also now a net food importer where it once exported grain to the region.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Oxen being more valuable, the wife should be pulling the plow./s
Zim ping
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But the sacred land has been expunged of the evil white colonialist oppressor ... so they've got that going for them.
They got rid of all the educated people that knew how to farm. I guess they are just too stupid to live. That what happens when people are racists.
The ultimate result of Affirmative action farming. The US is experiencing Affirmative action politics and with the same results.
haven't heard anything out of that idiot enabler Cathy Buckle lately...
Here’s a thought. Change the name of the country to, say, Rhodesia. Then place some ads in the U.K. for people with farming experience to come and work the land. They can keep whatever land they can work.
And throw that bum Mugabe in jail.
They also decided to eat the seed maize, instead of planting it, ten years back.
where do you get such outlandish ideas from?
When working in W. Africa I would ask them if this is the cradle of civilization why are y’all so damn far behind the rest of the world? Or I would tell ‘em, Y’all ought to go into the antique business because you can make even brand new stuff look like crap. Or, if its so great here why do they have so many signs discouraging emigration and why do you cover your wives up to put them on the plane to drop your baby in the United States? Why don’t you make a stand and make this place better?
Africa, spreading misery equally since the beginnings of time. We are going the same way here.
“And throw that bum Mugabe in jail.”
No. Give Mugabe and his supporters a fair trial and a speedier hanging. (A summary 7.62 NATO solution and dirt nap also works.)
THEN, you bring in the farmers. Nothing useful is accomplished before Mugabe and his scum are permanently neutralized.
mugabe’s idea was so full of rot — the white Africans who farmed those lands were Zimbabweans, not English etc. They were patriotic.
Mugabe needs a short rope and a long drop. His followers need the same.
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