Posted on 10/02/2007 7:17:33 AM PDT by dynachrome
Buckle is part of the problem - a big anti-Ian Smith type who was a Mugabe supporter. Painful to say, but she’s getting what she (thought she) wanted good and hard.
“How does she get food?”
One of her columns from a while ago joked about going to a charity wine auction where a bottle of wine went for 40,000 Zim dollars. Looks like things changed pretty fast.
(I would also recommend that any white in South Africa get out while the getting out is easier. They are going to confiscate the farmers land there, too)
“Where can one get some background material on her? Links?”
Go here and scroll back:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/921175/posts?page=153#153
You’ll find her links scattered about “Pity About Africa...”
At the time of independence (1980), there were 250,000 Rhodesians of Europan descent in the country, out of a population around 6,000,000. Today, the population is just under 13 million, with whites numbering around 40,000 (acording to Altapedia).
Cathy Buckle has been FR posting on the situation in Zim for many years.
Lots of links in some older threads. Will see If I can dig em up.
Thanks!
She ought to have left in, oh, 2002.
typical white masochist with a deep guilt complex.
Who needs food?The Church of Scientology just opened a lavish headquarters in downtown Harare.
Operating Thetans don’t need FOOD.They are beyond that mundane item.
“...but still Cathy stays. Why?”
Perhaps it is the beauty of the land. Her situation puts me in mind of the Missionary Hymn...remember these lines?
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile:
In vain with lavish kindness
The gifts of God are strown;
A land of pleasing prospects seems to some up Zimbabwe and much of the rest of the world pretty nicely.
Dunno.
“some up”???
Now, there’s a new one! LOL
No I don’t remember that hymn and she is staying because she likes the scenery? Nope, not good enough.
Maybe she simply can’t get out. It’s possible that she has tried to emigrate, but could not get in. Aren’t the immigration waiting lists here in the U.S. rather lengthy? And slipping across the border might also not work.
I guess I could email her and ask her!
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I end with a story about a man who is epileptic and visited the local government hospital for his regular check-up this week. It took four hours before he was seen by a nurse who scribbled in his book that this was a known case and that the hospital pharmacy should dispense his prescription of 90 phenobarb tablets at no charge - as they usually do. This major provincial government hospital had no phenobarb however so the man went to the biggest and busiest pharmacy in the town. They said the phenobarb would cost 1.2 million dollars - this is ten times more than the man's government stipulated minimum monthly wage. I offered to help and took the prescription to another pharmacy. The exact same tablets cost 250 thousand dollars - nearly five times cheaper. When I gave them to the man, his eyes shone with tears and he thanked me - 'I thought I would have to die' he said. What a way to live, and to die.Holy $hit Cathy. That he die is what is intended by Mugabe and the subtly racist, utilitarian, and Malthusian Global Influencers. The latter won't do anything for Zimbabweans but publicly shed crocodile tears. And I know that many of them surreptitiously send Mugabe laurel leafs for doing his dirty job.
In a traditionally moral world, would it not be far more troubling that there is no loud counter-Malthusian, prolife forces on the globe than any single report Cathy doggedly stays to witness and report on? Dammit.
Dang! That's a loaded weapon! You should not be eating it either. Give it to me and I'll dispose of it safely.
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