White farmers under fresh siege

Nehanda Radio ^ | May 26, 2011 | Chengetai Zvauya

[MinorityRepublican]

Farm invaders taunt white farmer

HARARE – White commercial farmers have come under renewed siege from farm invaders following the disbandment of the Sadc Tribunal last week, according to representatives.

Charles Taffs, the Commercial Farmers Union vice president said his organisation had received fresh invasions in Manicaland’s Chipinge area as well as on the outskirts of Harare this week.

He said the dissolution of the Sadc Tribunal, the white farmers’ last frontier of hope, had left them as cannon fodder to President Robert Mugabe’s allies clamouring for the complete removal of whites from farms.

Sadc leaders last Friday dissolved the Sadc Tribunal, which acted as a regional court for citizens denied justice in their own countries, for 12 months pending a review of operations.

“These new invasions are being encouraged because of the disbandment of the Sadc Tribunal which had ruled in our favour in the past two years and we want a way forward over these matters as the invasions are disrupting farming operations,’’ said Taffs.

Although the Zimbabwe government had refused to recognise the court’s rulings, positive judgments from the court kept a glimmer of hope for white farmers whose majority lost land under the often-violent land reform programme.

Taffs said only 230 commercial farmers remained in business from 4 500 at the start of the land reforms in 2000.

[Lancey Howard]

South Africa is Zimbabwe II, just waiting to happen.
It is only a matter of time.

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[kearnyirish2]

I think there is risk for whites there, but a lot more blacks know that for the time being they are needed. The Zimbabwe problems are hardly encouraging South Africans to boot out the only people currently saving them from the same fate. South Korean troops in Vietnam were to show the South Vietnamese what could be accomplished if they resisted communism; South Vietnam fell and became a backwards basket case, while South Korea still thrives.

[When do we get liberated?]

Time to leave the old neighborhood....

[Smokin' Joe]

The white farmers should get out with what they can.

I weary of the 'gimmie' attitude. Let them have it, they won't keep it long, and let them then starve in the cesspit they've created.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Interesting picture. The crowd in back looks well fed and well dressed for poor, downtrodden, Mugabe “veterans”.

[Redleg Duke]

I totally agree. Left to themselves, the blacks in Zimbabwe will be starving and eventually the Chinese will be their new colonial masters, and they won’t be near as civilized as the Brits were.