Zimbabwe's last white farmer forced to quit

Telegraph News ^ | 6/26/08

[BlueSky194]

Zimbabwe's once proud white farming community is facing extinction, as President Robert Mugabe steps up his campaign of violence and intimidation on all fronts. Virtually all of the remaining 280 white farmers have been invaded by government supporters since Mr Mugabe lost the first round of the presidential election in March.

[Ratblaster]

It wasn't enough for Mugabe to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. He had to rape the corpse to show it who was the boss.

[Lancey Howard]

I have 2012 in the "South Africa becomes Zimbabwe" pool.

[R_Kangel]

Now all that is left is the Zimbabwe voodoo farmers planting magic beans to feed the country.

For some reason the beans do not grow no matter how many human blood sacrifices they make.

According to them, the evil white farmers must have been using some very powerful magic to make their crops grow so well.

[sofaman]

It's pretty awful now! Jhb is a war zone, to all intents and purposes, with daily shootings, home invasion robberies, and carjackings at a rate of 29 per day including Saturdays & Sundays.

Electrical power is a nightmare with daily power failures. Generators are in huge demand. The electrical company, ESCOM (government owned), is antiquated and cannot cope with the demand.

People live in fortresses, with the police utterly powerless. Security companies provide armed response and guarantee 3 minute response. The police are under-paid, under-manned, poorly trained and out-gunned.

2012? We may have to rethink that.

[Billthedrill]

Mr Van Rensburg's workers were abused and threatened, and his manager's wife beaten up.

It isn't about race. It was never about race. It's about the ability of an evil, soulless band of punks and thugs to use race as a cover for ruining and expropriating everything that wasn't already theirs. It's about the credulity and stubborn stupidity of their Western enablers to cast it into terms that had everything to do with ideology and nothing whatever to do with fact. It's about two-bit academic fools fantasizing textbook rectitude while the landscape was being spattered with the blood of the innocent. It's about the complete and utter failure of international organizations to deal with a situation that falsified their world view. It's about idiots claiming social justice while children starve. It is everything that is wrong with Africa, with Europe, with the UN. That's what it's about.

[Ronin]

I really wonder how liberals can sleep at night.

Or shave in the morning without cutting their own throats.

[ChicagahAl]

“I really wonder how liberals can sleep at night.”

They are evil, and they are proud of their accomplishments.

And no, that is not sarcasm.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

THANKS, YOU WORTHLESS, WORST PRESIDENT EVER, P-NUT FARMING, MORON

Another of your (that which has and will continue to haunt us) "legacies."

[Prole]

These "Idi Amin" types will destroy Africa one nation at a time as the UN does absolutely nothing.

If anything, the UN should be mobilizing a military force to destroy Mugabe and his regime. Either that, or let it continue the way it is.

I predict that they are all doomed, and American taxpayers will be expected to solve their impossible problems.

[ChiMark]

Perhaps the biggest disasters of the decade and it receive little attention in the U.S. drive-bys.

Where’s the outrage? What happened to the U.N.?

A Jimmy Carter paradise.

[weegee]

Paging Barack Obama. Statement on this international matter in the mother country requested...

You and your church take pride in Africa and the concerns of the people there.

What do you say about this turn of events?

[weegee]

We have no grain for AfriKKKa anymore. We needz it for ethanolz.

[weegee]

I’m thinking somewhere along the line that one of Idi Amin’s foes said “Bite Me” and we all can see how that turned out.

[weegee]

I had to stumble there a second. And decode that as Johanesburg (sp?). It brought to mind recent tales of Juarez Mexico.

My hispanic friends were warned against crossing the border for some cheap stylish leather shoes and the like. I said even in daytime and they said yes that the gangland murders are even happening in broad daylight.

41 people murdered last weekend.

Society is in total collapse. Not every nation but there is total surrender in some regions of the world to absolute lawlessness and corruption.

[Lockbar]

OK, anybody want to place a bet on when the cannibalism starts? Or maybe it already has.

[Ben Reyes]

I can't believe this! There must be a mistake here. Blacks can't be racist. Only whites can.

[Clive]

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[TLEIBY308]

My wife is a Rhodesian,she cries for what has happend to it.
My family came to America in 1730,after my stint in the service I went to Rhodesia to join their fight,we lost thanks to the un and jimma.I came back home with my new wife who is now a proud freedom loving US citizen.
I’m too old now but I would go back and fight again.

[Chode]

...AfricaWinsAgain

[twntaipan]

I think liberals are amoral and soulless. They care only for themselves and will trade the life of any other individual for the pursuit of their own pleasure/power/position.