Posted on 09/14/2015 5:22:29 PM PDT by TroutStalker
They’d likely be better immigrants here than our current crop.
Go back long enough to sow salt into the land. Then, leave them to starve.
Are they being paid in those trillion dollar bills?
I agree
How sad for them.
Those former owners who come back to help must have a death wish....
"Quietly????" Nah, I don't think so. If I were a white expatriate, I'd consider returning. When the thieves who stole my land got down on their hands and knees and groveled, then jumped off a bridge in restitution. Otherwise, I'd tell them to stick it and starve.
Fool me once ...
Exiled Rhodesian Farmers should put out a video message to Zimbabweans:
Show us Mugabe and his henchmen with some of those nice necklaces aflame, then maybe we’ll consider coming back to help you.
They have an incredible attitude... I ask them how they aren’t full of anger still. They say that’s counter-productive, and would just eat them up. They are less upset about losing their farm than about all the friends they lost in the years leading up to that. They’re happy to be alive, and have hope.
It’s true that Mugabe stole the farms, but he had more difficulty stealing much of the money.
And it’s true that he gave the farms that he stole to war veterans, but he didn’t have the money to give them to pay for the diesel to run tractors, or for parts for tractors and pickups that had sat idle for a while, or for seeds.
And this farming thing...takes an upfront investment. You have to spend money on seed, fertilizer, and equipment...and often on water/irrigation.
Of course, that’s if you know how and are willing to farm yourself.
Otherwise it takes even more money to hire labor and expertise.
Given the above, the war veterans just camped out in the farm houses for a while...and then moved back into the cities and villages.
Karmically, this meant that the mighty wealth from the farms in the form of food and income (taxes!) deprived Mugabe of Zimbabwe’s once-number-1 source of income.
No food = no taxes coming in from those idle farms, and it also meant that Zimbabwe had to spend money to import food; a double-whammy.
In turn, this meant that the average standard of living declined. Imagine a society that gave away farms and once exported food becoming more poor each year.
Two words.
Tee
Hee
“We need to help each other.”
Actually, no we don’t. You want the land? It’s all yours!
When Tracy Mutinhiri struggled to get her tobacco crop to grow, she turned to some of the country’s most experienced farmers for help.
There was only one complication: They were black.
White farmers flee Zimbabwe.
Women and minorities hardest hit
Did somebody forget to tell those people that you have to wake up real early in the mornong ,7 days a week when you are a farmer?
“Fifteen years ago, the government began seizing property from thousands of white farmers and giving it to blacks”.
That was the story they told - the reality is that the deeds to the great bulk of the property ended up in the names of the high ranking members of the (Communist) Zanu-PF Party.
True,they are mostly black, but almost all the black population was excluded, except for the party elites and some of their goons (so called “War Vetrans”). It was straight out plunder, often accompanied by brutal murders and rapes.
I hope that they are paying a fortune for the real farmers to work the land again, because any profit is better than the unproductive wasteland many farms descended into.
Zimbabwe has become a world-class economic disaster, from what was the breadbasket of Africa before the Communist takeover.
“The problem now is that we have the land, but they have the experience,” said Mutinhiri, a black landowner. “
And after a few growing seasons, with the black landowner gaining experience...what then???
Can’t Mugabe just die already? He and Castro are long passed the sell by date.
I’d demand 50% of the land, rather than the food
let them eat what the dung beetle eats
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