[Nov3]

Do any of these people have a backbone?

I am sure you would be much braver looking at leaving your family without a breadwinner in a country going into a famine. You could provide for them much better in the no doubt luxurious jail system if you survived. Your wife and children would no doubt enjoy being raped and beaten by Mugabes war heroes.

South Africa is not far behind.

[Technocrat]

I'm not talking about the family types, I'm talking about the older men, those who have no dependants. Every time I read a story like this it seems like old men are prominently featured in the role of the farmer. And yes, you're bloody well right that if I had no other option, and I was that old, that it would be relatively easy for me to make the decision that if I'm going then I'm taking a few of them with me. But the last stand is for people who have run out of ideas, or used up all their other ideas, or think they can take out what's left with the element of surprise. What about poison in the water or food? What about using the local insect or animal population? What about a tossed stick of dynamite at 3 in the morning? What about flash bangs? Gasoline? Psyops? (Give one of them a piece of land in front of all the others, because he's been so "cooperative") That's what I come up with in five minutes. If I had years to think about it - well, that's something else altogether.