Posted on 01/26/2015 11:22:33 PM PST by Olog-hai
Government yesterday vowed to grab all farms owned by the remaining white former commercial farmers and ruled out joint ventures involving whites.
Addressing chiefs during the handover of A2 (small-scale commercial farm) offer letters to traditional leaders in Mashonaland East province yesterday, Provincial Affairs minister Joel Biggie Matiza said government’s new land policy was set to benefit diplomats, chiefs, war veterans, civil servants and others who missed out at the launch of the land reform program in 2000 because of rampant corruption.
Speaking at the same occasion, Lands and Rural Resettlement minister Douglas Mombeshora also said government would not allow contract farming arrangements where the indigenous farm owners would get only 10% of total produce while their white partners grabbed the lion’s share. […]
He said white former farmers should be given 90 days to vacate their farms if the land has been allocated to a black person to avoid legal battles. …
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.co.zw ...
The next story we will hear is how all the farms failed because the (new) farmers aren’t capable of operating them properly.
No need to salt the land.
It would be nice if the white farmers were compensated since their land is being stolen.
Where’s the anti-apartheid crowd on this? Waiting for the Hollywood folks to make bold insightful statements opposing this oppressive regime.
Still waiting.
Still waiting ...
Once proud and wealthy Rhodesia...
Everyone should see the movie “Mugabee and the White Africans”. I have tried to get the local artsy movie house to show it, but it does not fit their narrative. So sad for the continent, but Africa was not ready for an end of colonialism. Amazing movie documenting corruption and evil intimidation/racist violence. Amazingly strong farmers and wonderful black farm workers.
The new farm owners are cronies of the regime. They will sell off the farm equipment and let the farms go to waste.
The milk in my fridge has a sign on it boasting that it is “Proudly South African.” The cheese, custard, butter, frozen vegetables, fruit juice and mayonnaise have the same sign. The cereals in the cupboard have labels announcing that they are “Proudly South African” so does the rice, coffee and biscuits. It’s the same in the pantry cupboard where the tins, soup, noodles, washing powder and cleaning products all say ‘Made in South Africa.’ This is how Zimbabwe greets 2015.
The sight of many hundreds of people standing in the cold, slanting rain on the road outside the passport office in my home town welcomed in the first week of 2015. For some unknown, bureaucratic reason people are still not allowed to queue inside the building, instead they must line up outside the gates exposed to all weathers, treated like livestock at a sale pen.
In the same week as the monster passport queues the rain had been coming down for days. Many of the roads through the town, so potholed and eroded after months without maintenance, had become almost impassable. Un-cleared storm drains, filled with sand and litter made the drainage problem much worse; uncollected garbage spills out onto roads and pavements, sodden and rotting and everywhere comes news of floods. Stories of flooded bridges and roads, houses falling down, people being swept away in swollen rivers and families having to move to higher ground.
Despite all this trouble at home which needs all hands on deck, still people queue up in their hundreds and thousands to renew their documents in order to get out of the country just a few days into the new year. They have to get back to work outside the country and nothing can delay their departures. These are the people keeping our country alive: Zimbabweans who go to work in South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia and other countries. Month after month, year after year they’ve been sending money and goods back to Zimbabwe to keep their families alive, pay rent and bills and keep their children in school. Every year they hope they’ll be able to come home for good but every year nothing changes.
The latest statistics say it all: unemployment estimated at close to 90%; since 2011, 4,160 companies have closed and 55,443 jobs been lost. And worst of all we can’t even grow our own food anymore; in the first six months of 2014 we imported over US$400 million worth of groceries, most from South Africa.
In our population of 12.9 million people an estimated 3.5 million go backwards and forwards to work in the Diaspora. In the week before Christmas at least 20,000 people a day came in through the Beitbridge border post. They were Zimbabweans coming home for brief but precious family reunions, shocked at what they found at home, shaking their heads at how very, very long this sad situation has been going on. Until they can come home for good we keep the flag flying high as best we can.
Why any white person would remain in that hell hole is beyond me.
Maybe the African Americans who hate the USA so much might want to re-settle there.
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exactly
Beyond me as well. After watching the successive ratcheting of administrative and terror tactics against white farmers one would think Buckle would have fled more than ten years ago.
So, Zimbabwe went from a country using cut,slash,burn agriculture, that could barely feed the people, to a vibrant agricultural country that could feed all Africa!
Now it is reverting to a cut, slash, burn economy which can probably feed the population they had in 1880, but not today’s population.
So the world ends up with another beggar nation and the libs will blame the white man for Zimbabwe’s failure.
Unlike here, of course...
Aside for not being ready for colonialism to end (I would say British more than the other European powers), nobody is ever ready for communism and its ravages.
The only thing you’ll wait longer for in this context is the Hollyweirdos to make “bold, insightful statements” on the predicament of white farmers due to the only-slightly-less-oppressive ANC regime in South Africa.
>At one point....they could have feed two or three other nations.
More like 10-15 other nations.
It’s hard to believe, but by the 70s Zimbabwe was nearly a developed country in terms of both per capita GDP and infrastructure, similar to the economic position of Turkey or Mexico today.
People in (any American Urban enclave) will never understand all of this: they will always blame “whitey” even when there is no more “whitey”.
When the history you teach blames others for your personal failure(s), that is all you have--you are a helpless victim.
When you take responsibility for your situation--failures included, then you empower yourself to change it.
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