Posted on 06/23/2002 7:53:18 PM PDT by Clive
The majority of white farmers who are still in Zimbabwe are legally obliged to stop working their land from Monday, according to their union.
The Commercial Farmers' Union says that 2,900 farmers must surrender farms in line with recent changes to the law, which give the Zimbabwean Government sweeping powers to take land.
Any farmer who carries on working their land 45 days after receiving an acquisition notice could face two years in prison.
The number of farmers affected represents about 60% of the total of white farmers who were in Zimbabwe at the time that land seizures began two years ago.
Self-sufficiency
Last month the government passed the legislation, giving farmers 45 days to stop working land which has been listed for acquisition and redistribution.
War veterans have spearheaded the government's land push In theory the farmers now have another 45 days, at the end of which they must leave their properties for good.
The government was not available for comment, but a state controlled newspaper said the authorities had rejected requests from farmers that they be allowed to stay on.
Some white farmers appear to be in a defiant mood and say they will carry on farming.
One said, you can't just wind up 50 years of work in 45 days.
Donors say the food shortages now affecting millions of Zimbabweans are directly linked to the often chaotic redistribution of land.
But the government says that by taking land from white farmers and giving it to landless black peasants, it is ensuring greater self-sufficiency in the future.
Gee, now, if the blacks were Serbs and the whites Albanians, there'd be more interest from the world.
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No they don't. They are white,and they aren't a religious minority.
I don't think there'll be any red carpet in the US for these folks. The Globalists want them gone - they're an embarrassment to them & they're happy to let Mugabe dispose of them.
BTW any one else noticing a trend?
I feel sorry for the individuals over there but they must go ahead and starve. Freedom from want, when given, is not held in as much esteem and will not survive as long as freedom hard won. Especially when the majority of the populace is happy to see the whites being slaughtered and thrown off their land.
Let's send the farmers a shipload of salt.
Nothing surprising there. This is the historic method of controlling your people in Africa,and the whole purpose of that concert and album was to pump up musical careers,especially those of Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones. It was probably good for $100 million each in international sales of their old and new music. You just can't begin to buy publicity like that.
The other musicians most likely did it without thinking because it made them feel good and noble. I doubt any of them ever gave a moments thought to what happened once the attention went away. They just ASSUMED the hungry people would be fed.
Not yet. That day won't arrive untill the gooberment announces we are converting over to a "cash-free system",and all "money" will be listed as debits and credits in electronic accounts you (AND they!)will access with a unique identifier. That's the day I take up my rifle and go into politics. If you wait until that is implemented and running,you have waited too long.
Looks to me like the same bunch of elitists is pulling the strings in both major parties.
It is. They all go to the same schools,live in the same neighborhoods,and marry into each other's families. Most are even in business together in one form or another.
There will still be people. Mugabe just does not want any self-sufficient farmers. All Mugabe wants are people to work the mines (to provide cash in his pockets). Food can be imported
The advantage of importing food for cash is that the government can then utterly control who gets to live or die of starvation. It helps avoid labor troubles.
There are a couple who post here on FR,and they seem to say it isn't easy for them to come to the US. They need some kind of US "connection" to make it happen. "White refugee fleeing from black racism,murder,and oppression" either just ain't enough,or ain't what the US State Dept wants to hear.
The Globalists want them gone - they're an embarrassment to them & they're happy to let Mugabe dispose of them.
Yup,they are living proof the globalists were lying.
BTW any one else noticing a trend?
These are trends even Ray Charles can see.
They're way ahead of you. The self destruct mechanism is arranged with a *dead-man's switch,* and has been in place for more than 20 years now.
-archy-/-
I hardly think that the IRS has a special branch the separates the money paid by white taxpayers from those paid by black taxpayers - of which there are many. Your comments sound racist to me.
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