Posted on 12/15/2004 3:01:24 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party's central committee apparently has decided to confiscate all remaining farms still owned by white farmers, reported the Zimbabwean website, Zimonline, on Monday.
About 500 farms out of the initial 4 500 are still in white hands.
The first farm to fall prey to this decision is that of well-known cricketer Dennis Streak, father of Heath, the former cricket captain.
This decision, which is discussed in a secret report of the Zanu-PF's central committee, clashes with a statement by President Robert Mugabe and his cabinet that the land-reform process in Zimbabwe has been completed.
The report reads: "The resolution, which sources in the party's inner circles believe will definitely be implemented in the next couple of months, will mean the 500 white farmers who have managed to retain their land until now will definitely lose it."
Granted permission to stay on
The Heath farm, near Bulawayo, was listed for a government takeover as long as two years ago, but the Streaks appealed against the decision.
They were granted permission to stay on the farm while waiting for the appeal decision to come through, but this week it became clear that the die had been cast and the family would have to move.
Streak was not available for comment on Tuesday, but his wife, Shona, confirmed the news.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe's official inflation rate dropped to 149.3% last month, down from 209% in October, said the state central statistical office on Tuesday.
The new rate still leaves Zimbabwe with the highest inflation in the world.
Distressing situation.
Isn't Shona a scottish name?
Let 'em all starve; I have no sympathy for the racist, bigoted, subhuman filth. Rhodesia is a killing field.
Well, it only took ZANU only 24 years to make Rhodesia a total shithole. Oh by the way, if there is anyone out there interested in African Safaris, my latest issue of African Hunter magazine that was published out of Harare is now being published out of Dallas, just a few miles from where I live. The staff at Dallas Safari Club has a bunch of good connections, and I see their handiwork in it. Look forward to getting ALL my issues next year.
This is just like Stalin creating the famine in the Ukraine.
no, the UN might not be there tomorow. I m definetely certain there will be an effort to kill it off eventually because it became a corrupt organization to such a degree its better to build from nothing.
Fm your mouth to God's ear. I ain't holding my breath, though.
This is not for distribution to the landless blacks, in the end his cronies will get some and lease them out, and the rest he will sell to foreigners.
Every "redistributed" farm has gone from mass commercial output to failed subsistence.
Is the population being fed adequately?
They are starving.
Were white families compensated?
In a pig's eye.
Who now owns the confiscated farmland?
Mugabe's croneys.
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Shona a Scottish name?Maybe so but I thought the coincidence of the wife being named Shona when that was one of the main Zim tribes had to a little strangely ironic.
,,, there's gotta be oil under the surface of some of these farms!
bump
precious metal ore under the farms
This is nothing more than communism. We still are awaiting comment from Berkeley...
And whom might they have been, out of curiosity?
Some wildebeests and a pack of baboons.
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