[Clive]

This is an unusual drougt

It is one in which the dams are full and the streams are running.

It is one in which brown fields are separated from green fields by the boundary fences between the squatters lands and the commercial farmers' lands

[Clive]

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[SamAdams76]

Unless the United States plans to occupy and colonize Africa, we should stay out of it this time and let events play out. Propping up these dictatorships by feeding their people is only making the long-term situation worse.

[JustSayNoNWO]

Where is the outrage by the UN? I thought that the UN was all about helping those oppressed (white farmers), and sanctioning against a country that violates human rights.

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[gcruse]

Chutzpah.

The defendant kills his parents,
then begs for mercy since as an orphan.

Zimbabwe gets no sympathy here.

[muawiyah]

Will Robert Mugabe be called before the new World Court to answer for his crimes?

Obviously not!

"W" is absolutely correct in opposing this new critter.

[Lazamataz]

Drought, economic collapse drive Zimbabwe to brink of starvation

Bulls**t.

The crazy-man Mugabe and his plunder of productive farms drove Zimbabwe to the brink of starvation.

[Jorge]

.....a land reform program that has destroyed commercial farming have pushed millions of Zimbabweans to the brink of starvation.

Geez, I wonder how many times was this predicted right here on FR?

[Maceman]

Darn that pesky drought.

[john in missouri]

But they have defended their land policies, saying that after two decades of independence, many Zimbabweans were frustrated that whites, less than 1 percent of the population, controlled the country's wealth, and that about 4,500 white commercial farmers owned one-third of the nation's farmland while 7 million black farmers shared the rest.

Socialist solution to that problem: destroy the wealth. That way all will starve equally. Except, of course, for the fact that some animals are more equal than others.

If one wanted to redistribute the land "ethnically," one could have passed laws requiring that commercial farms become corporate entities. A certain small percentage of annual compensation to farm workers could be mandated to be paid as stock, giving continuity of management and workers, and giving farm workers incentive to see the farms continue to prosper. Mandatory stock payments would stop after some years and at some certain percentage of ownership (in other words, original owners would be allowed to retain a certain percentage of ownership).

Whether you like them or not, affirmative action programs could have been implemented, providing tax or other incentives for farms that put blacks in responsible positions of upper management after a period of time. Such reasonable period of time would allow owners time to choose and train competent black managers.

Or, we could just send armed gangs of thugs who don't know a thing about farming and who have no work ethic or skills whatsoever to rape, murder and evict all the farm owners and skilled workers, and turn the nation's breadbasket into permanently barren fields.