Posted on 04/08/2019 5:05:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Never question the Big Lie.
Lefties will point to this as an example of reparations and why it should be done here.
20 years
17.5 million
4500 farmers......
So each of the 4500 farmers gets $3889.00 or $194.40 per year. Some were evicted violently by force, some by slow squatter encroachment.
Yeah, that’s fair...and that’s if no corrupt officials get their fingers into the ‘pie ya niyama’
And all the good productive farmland that wasn’t being cropped before the evil farmers showed up, how’s that national starvation rate working out for you now?!
Aboriginal until Christianity came to the bush. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to go back to “...tending their own garden...”
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KYPD
Yep, rather discussing how Reuters did their best to justify the rape and pillage of Mugabe's policies.
A process that left the country struggling unable to feed itself. Fixed..
Now for the funny part of the story. Farms forcibly taken from white farmers were given to “veterans” ( in reality Mugabe’s street thugs ). Some of those farms were so nice that they were forcibly taken away from the thugs who got them in the land grab by the government and given to other better politically connected thugs.
Let them burn in the hellfire they created.
I agree, sometimes ones highest and best use is to serve as a warning to others. Modern society is too quick to jump in and undo disastrous criminal political acts instead of holding them up to the world and ridiculing them as examples. Trump is the only one doing so to any degree.
There is an actual exchange rate. The current rate has 17.5 million equal to 48,355.899 in US dollars. Some idiots must have been giving therm loans.
How true. Back then, a native man considered himself to be a WARRIOR, not a Farmer. That was a woman’s job. The kids herded the cattle.
Their Agricultural methods were the old “Cut, slash, burn” methods of farming, and that was it.
One nickle on the dollar...if that.
“Not like the “best land” was being farmed when the “colonialists” came in, was it?”
I cannot vouch for any accuracy in the paper at the link below, but it is an extensive history of what is now known as Zimbabwe.
I guess if you are born in Zimbabwe, whether “white” or “black” your view of how your family came to be where they are today, on the land and in the society, likely depends on your view of the history, as told in papers like this one:
https://www.sahistory.org.za/place/zimbabwe
Must be sad when citizenry is unable to do basic things, like grow food to eat.
That’s what I thought.
I’d take a South African website with a grain of salt, considering that communists have been running that place since Mandela.
Probably just a slush fund for the ruling Party elites.
Higher ups in the ZANU-PF Party somehow ended up personally holding the title to most of the farmland that was seized. Without the White farmers however, they did not make much money on the land, after the first big windfall from stealing it.
So they need to lure back some competent farmers to manage their estates.
My guess is that the farmers who come to work for the Party elites will get repaid for their land, as part of their compensation/incentive package.
Maybe it is even worse, and they will just pay some Whites who agree to be shell recipients, kicking back most of the payments under the table.
You’re right! $500 billion (zim) for $12.99 USD can’t be right.
Reparations!
White Farmer returns to Zimbabwe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i10ppb_yKUU
There are still good people in Africa.
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