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Zimbabwe Returns Land To White Farmer Evicted By Mugabe Regime
The Daily Caller ^ | 12/22/17 | Kerry Picket

Posted on 12/22/2017 1:23:46 PM PST by paltz

A white Zimbabwean farmer previously kicked off his land by the former Robert Mugabe regime received a hero’s welcome from his community Thursday following the new government’s return of his land, the Associated Press reported.

Guided by military escort, Robert Smart became the first white farmer who came back to the land he once owned before it was seized nearly two decades ago by Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party.

In 2000, Mugabe ordered land seizures and evictions of white farmers and their families. According to the Telegraph, of the estimated 4,500 white farmers prior the seizures, only several hundred remain.

Zimbabwe’s farmlands fell into disarray after these evictions, causing the economy that what was once known as the “southern African bread basket” to collapse. By 2006, National Public Radio reported Zimbabwe’s economy shrunk by almost a third.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; breadbsket; emmersonmnangagwa; farmers; mnangagwa; mugabe; rhodesia; robertmugabe; robertsmart; zimbabwe; zimbabwefarmers
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1 posted on 12/22/2017 1:23:46 PM PST by paltz
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To: paltz

That’s where all those NFL “kneelers” and their ilk need to go.....Zimbabwe.
That’s what they want for the USA. Why not just go to a country that’s already established with what they want?


2 posted on 12/22/2017 1:25:43 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: paltz

Watching that video of them greeting him actually gives me some hope for humanity.


3 posted on 12/22/2017 1:27:40 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: paltz

He is a fool for going back.


4 posted on 12/22/2017 1:28:19 PM PST by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: Clive

ping


5 posted on 12/22/2017 1:30:16 PM PST by paltz
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To: dynachrome

Yep. He will be necklaced within one year.


6 posted on 12/22/2017 1:31:56 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: dynachrome

I pray you’re wrong.


7 posted on 12/22/2017 1:31:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: paltz

I’d post the Admiral Akbar “It’s a Trap!” graphic, but I don’t have time to find it.


8 posted on 12/22/2017 1:32:43 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: paltz
Venezuela will do something like this, only to renationalize the property all over again ten years later.
9 posted on 12/22/2017 1:33:49 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: paltz

The problem is, if a country in Africa suddenly becomes prosperous, they will be inundated with refugees from the rest of the continent, the same has been happening in South Africa, it’s just as bad as what we’ve seen in Europe, complete with riots.


10 posted on 12/22/2017 1:35:51 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: paltz

White Farmers Lives Matter


11 posted on 12/22/2017 1:39:19 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: paltz

Thankfully the UN and the USA came to the rescue of those white farmers!!/s


12 posted on 12/22/2017 1:43:46 PM PST by Professional
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To: paltz

Those colonialists weren’t so bad after all...


13 posted on 12/22/2017 1:46:26 PM PST by aquila48
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To: 17th Miss Regt
He will be necklaced within one year.

If they didn't do it under Mugabe it's hardly likely to happen.

14 posted on 12/22/2017 1:46:38 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Did Winnie Mandela move to Zimbabwe?


15 posted on 12/22/2017 1:47:39 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dynachrome

Agreed. What a dumb ass...


16 posted on 12/22/2017 1:47:58 PM PST by EEGator
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To: El Cid

17 posted on 12/22/2017 1:49:10 PM PST by EEGator
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To: dynachrome

“He is a fool for going back.”

I’m afraid you’re right. Mugabe may be gone but the envious, incompetent people that put him in power and supported him are still there.


18 posted on 12/22/2017 1:49:43 PM PST by aquila48
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19 posted on 12/22/2017 1:50:44 PM PST by EEGator
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To: paltz

Robert Smart’s middle name must be “Notso”


20 posted on 12/22/2017 1:53:25 PM PST by captain_dave
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