Zim 'to take all white farms'

News24 ^ | Dec 15, 2004

[cyborg]

bump to that look into the history of how Cecil Rhodes treated white farmers who stood in his way.

[Dog Gone]

This problem rightly belongs in the foreign policy sphere of the British Commonwealth of Nations which means that it's up to countries like Canada to take decisive action.

Which is why we're where we are today.

[1066AD]

Tragedy, no other word.
Same thing starting in Namibia and South Africa.
Apparently Zambia and Mozambique are welcoming some of the displaced farmers, need their expertise.

[Dante3]

bttt

[kaehurowing]

"Land reform" has been legal in the United States since 1984, when the U.S. Supreme Court in Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff held that it was lawful for the state of Hawaii to condemn the land from Person A and then transfer it to Person B, as long as there was a "conceivable" economic basis for doing so. Economically benefiting Person B is sufficient, says the Supreme Court, because that would improve the general welfare

This case has formed the basis for all sorts of abuses, primarily large companies paying off municipal governments (either directly or through promises that it will "increase the tax base") to seize property and then transfer the property to them.

The issue is again up in the Supreme Court, but I wouldn't hold my breath that the Court will restore the Public Use Clause to the Constitution.

[Clive]

We were expecting this.

Those who thought that they could come to an accommodation with Mugabe's thugs were totally out of touch with reality.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Mugabe has singlehandedly destroyed the entire economy of this country. He has let the mobs run wild and steal the farms of the whites and the country has gone from a exporter of farm products to an importer with a wreck for an economy.
Mugabe also forced out all of the skilled trades people and merchants.
Zimbabwe is now just another African basket case run by a dictator.
Give Africa another generation or two and I predict it will finally revert back to a nation of warring tribes.
I can't think of one country there now that isn't now worse off than they were before the European nations finally gave up their colonialism after W.W. II.