[Clive]

When you sup with the devil, use a very long spoon.

Zim goes from being a Brit colony to being an Arab colony in less than a quarter century.

[Clive]

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

It is understood that groups of Libyan businessmen have been to Zimbabwe and visited vast commercial farms around the country. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi also toured some big commercial farms and identified some for his country's expropriation last year.

BUMP!

[Moonman62]

When are Dan, Tom, Peter, and Katie going to report on the destructive effects of racism in Zimbabwe?

[fporretto]

So the Libyans want to be paid for their oil! Tsk, tsk. So much for socialist brotherhood and Pan-African unity, eh?

When it was Rhodesia, that benighted land was the second-richest of all Africa, just behind Kenya -- and blacks shared in the pie. Their major beef with the white regime was that voting rights were conditioned on land ownership.

If one could somehow assure them that Mugabe and his Zanu-PF enforcers would never learn their answers, what percent of Zimbabweans would today prefer to return to the days of Rhodesia and all-white rule?

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[wafflehouse]

i have been watching this whole thing go on, and i am still not terribly informed.. let me see if i have this right

this guy, mugabe (was he actually elected at first?) is a totally incompetent ruler, who has let his vices and lust for power destroy his country and its people..

is that right?

[headsonpikes]

There is something clearly evocative of 'Animal Farm' in this whole Libya/Zim connection. Remember the farm animals peering through the window at their pig-leaders drinking with the neighbouring farmers?

I wonder what the typical 'Shona-in-the-street' thinks of his so-called 'black nationalist' leadership cutting deals with a new colonial boss.