White Farmers Reject Mugabe Plea To Return (Zimbabwe)

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-22-2005 | Toby Harnden

[blam]

Ping.

[xJones]

Mugabe's in his late seventies, but even when he kicks off his successor will most likely be another looter picking over the bones. There's no guarantee, no safety, no future for skilled white farmers to return unless a miracle happens.

[ken21]

the nyt today had a front page article on the demise of zimbabwe.

whatta laugh! not once did they mention directly the cause of the problems in zimbabwe.

[T Lady]

'the nyt today had a front page article on the demise of zimbabwe.

whatta laugh! not once did they mention directly the cause of the problems in zimbabwe.'

What did you expect? Mugabe's one of their heroes.

-Regards, T.

[Enterprise]

"Those who took over the farms had no specialist knowledge - and most farmland now lies uncultivated."

El Presidente Fox should send poor Mexicans to Zimbabwe. The white farmers were evicted or murdered, and those who took over were either too stupid or too lazy to work the farms.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Send Mugabe some belts to hold up their pants.

[ZOOKER]

Okay, Mugabe asked them nicely to return, and they refused.

What do you suppose will happen next, to any white farmer foolish enough to still be in Zimbabwe? I give even odds they will either be dead or slaves on their former farms for their new masters.

[Serious Capitalist]

All of this was foretold by Ayn Rand in the greatest novel of the 20th Century- Atlas Shrugged. These idiots in Zimbabwe are clearly looters NOT producers.

[brightstar]

Gono:

"Come back! We didn't mean it! We were just having a little fun, that's all. That whole thing about sending in armed thugs to beat your family and steal your land, well, that was just a joke! What's the matter, can't you take it? Don't have a sense of humour? Why don't you white farmers want to come back? Are you racists?"

[minus_273]

mugabe really is a black hitler. you wont see it in the press and even when movies like the interpreter mention it but make mugabe white.

[Billthedrill]

... Mr Gono, Mr Mugabe's leading economic policy maker, in a rambling three-hour statement...

These guys talk like Castro, too. Pity you can't feed your people on hot air.

The term "joint venture" in this makes my skin crawl. The formerly successful farmers bring knowledge and experience. What do Mugabe and his thugs bring to the table? And what is that likely to mean to the workers who used to be paid and who used to eat and who now enjoy neither? Great deal for them, huh? And before anyone says "but it's better than starving," consider that it might not be.

[DumpsterDiver]

... recent parliamentary elections that were widely condemned as being rigged...

Was Jimmy Carter there?

[patton]

not the article I mentioned, but same point.

[Casaubon]

gee I guess Mugabe burned a couple bridges with that kill whitey and take his land thing....huh?

[Squantos]

LOL....Mugabe will use em as brains for his own bucks and then use them as fertilizer when the duckets start rolling in........phucm !

[WHBates]

He said: "In order to ensure maximum productivity levels, there is great scope in the country promoting and supporting joint ventures between the new farmers with progressive-minded former operators as well as other new investors, so as to hasten the skills transfer cycle."

These dips**ts can't even hide their ultimate goal. So what happens after the skill transfer??? The funny thing is that it probably wouldn't happen anyway.

[Eternal_Bear]

They must think whitey is stupid as "merde". Well considering how the liberal media acts in this country, who can blame them?

[CurlyBill]

Good post. These people were robbed, raped, and killed by these thugs... with no international condemnation and barely a mention in the US media. It's a one-way street my friends.

[patton]

yep.