It should be noted however that Mozambique and Zambia are offering 50 year leases to displaced Zimbabwe commercial farmers. They cannot bring their employees with them, as the host countries want their own nationals to be employed.
Mozambique places an obligation on the Zimbabwe commercial farmers to undertake to learn Portugese and to be able to communicate with employees in their native Shona. The secoond requirement is not a problem as most of the displaced farmers come from the Shona areas of Zimbabwe and their employees were Shona.
The Zanu PF thugs not only violently drove out the farm owners, they also displaced the farm employees thereby increasing the massive volkerwanderung that threatened to overwhelm adjoining countries, principally South Africa.
It is unfortunate that the west seems to be so reluctant to accept the commercial farmers. They are argarian experts of the first order, principally expert in dry land farming.
And to think there are people who can’t “see” or “recognize” evil in the world.
Thank you for the follow-up and information Clive.
Coming up on ten years:
“Zimbabwe court rules seizing of white-owned land legal”
Dec 5, 2001 - HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s top court has declared the government’s plan to seize white-owned farms legal, overturning its own previous ruling that the seizures were unconstitutional.
In a judgment released Tuesday, four of the five Supreme Court justices appointed to hear the new seizure case said they were satisfied the government’s “fast track” land nationalization program was lawful and “sufficiently complied” with the constitution.
Last year’s Supreme Court ruling declared the government’s methods of land seizures illegal and in breach of constitutional ownership rights and government land laws.
Some of the judges who made that ruling have been replaced in recent months.
Four of the five judges hearing the new case, including Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku, were appointed recently by President Robert Mugabe. Those four voted to uphold the government’s land seizure program.
The Supreme Court traditionally had only five judges until Mugabe expanded the bench to eight in July, adding three judges considered loyal to the ruling party. The chief justice usually appoints small panels of judges to hear each case.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change has described the court’s expansion as a political ploy designed to turn the court into a government puppet. [end excerpt]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/583991/posts?page=419
Anyone notice how the U.S. courts are packed with socialists who overturn the will of the people, making election outcomes moot?
And they get a really neat flag. Will the hunting industry be upgraded you think?
I hope they do well in Mozambique and Zambia — they can transform these countries. Also, these white farmers are “African” — many would never feel at home in Europe or America.