Posted on 07/20/2006 2:40:45 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Harare, Zimbabwe
Namibia's justice minister has praised Zimbabwe's controversial programme of farm seizures, saying newspapers that run negative stories about the country are taken over by forces opposed to the success of Africanism, it was reported on Wednesday.
Speaking during a tour of three Zimbabwe farms allocated to black farmers, Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana said there was too much propaganda against the country, the government's Herald newspaper reported.
"When I came to Zimbabwe I was looking for chaos, disorder, lawlessness and rampant human rights abuse. I was surprised to see people working, some of them on their farms," the minister said.
Namibia has recently embarked on its own programme of land reforms, and says it sees Zimbabwe as a role model for the way land reform can be carried out.
President Robert Mugabe launched his programme of white land seizures in 2000. Only a few hundred white farmers are now left on the land, out of more than 4 000 six years ago.
The programme has been wracked with controversy, following allegations that well-connected members of the ruling party cherry-picked the best farms, often for use as weekend retreats.
Agricultural production has taken a nosedive, turning a country once known as the breadbasket of Southern African into a struggling food importer.
Mugabe blames the drop in production upon repeated drought, but some senior government officials -- including vice-president Joseph Msika -- have dared to suggest that land wasn't always given to people with an interest in farming.
Namibia's justice minister told the Herald she was very pleased to have been brought to see the farms.
"There is too much propaganda against Zimbabwe. I keep on repeating, our media from all over Namibia, South Africa are all taken by forces opposed to the success of Africanism," Iivula-Ithana said.
The authorities in Zimbabwe also regularly allege that they are the victim of a hostile Western media plot, and there are strict media laws in place to try to control which reporters are allowed to work there. - Sapa-DPA
Indeed. A model for land reform if you want to starve your people to death.
Don't reforms actually have to be successful to be called roll models?
So what else is new.
When are Europe and America going to wake up to the fact that Western civilization is the endangered species? 1.5 million French ethnically cleansed from Algeria, English ethnically cleansed from Rhodesia, and South Africa is next. INS is apparently not even allowing applications for immigration from Afrikaaners. Instead we bomb Serbia for trying to prevent ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Kosovo.
The white man is going the way of the dodo, and nothing but Mordor will be around at this rate. Only a great catastrophe can wake us up now so we can save ourselves in time.
Will the new slogan be "let them eat dirt" perhaps?
Uh...no...they're not working on "their" farms -- they're "working" on OTHER PEOPLE'S farms!
It was highly successful ... if you look at its true goals. Ethnic cleansing.
Yah. You occasionally see her at sports events. She's in a 10-on 90-off rotation with the Goodyear blimp.
LMAO!!!!!
Yeah, like Nazi Germany was a role model for social justice.
Guys...stop this stuff, it makes my hair hurt..
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