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Thought this would be interesting. Mugabe's list of allies grows thin...
1 posted on 10/13/2005 11:41:59 PM PDT by ncoaster
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To: ncoaster
"China has turned down an offer by President Robert Mugabe’s government to take over farms seized from whites apparently because Beijing feared there was no guarantee that such an investment would be secure in the long term, authoritative sources said."

Translation: "We'd rather deal with Kim Bong Ill than YOU, you nut."
2 posted on 10/13/2005 11:44:32 PM PDT by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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LOL.

Maybe he can get castro or chavez to send some help.


3 posted on 10/13/2005 11:45:03 PM PDT by flashbunny
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To: ncoaster

That's rich. A country - China - now importing farming technology and knowledge from Western countries being asked to take over failing farms in a country that took farms away from successful western farmers.

China learned one important lesson in farming that applies to Zimbabwe today. It is a lesson that started the transformation of China from a state run dud into the bastion of free enterprise that it is today.

It is a lesson China learned when a few collective farms stood up to Bejing and said, look at how much food we are producing by allowing our farmers to grow a portion of their harvest for their own private sale.

If Zimbabwe wants its farms to be successful, China can do it a big favor by telling it to get the government out of farming - and give it back to the farmers.


4 posted on 10/14/2005 12:18:10 AM PDT by BJungNan
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To: ncoaster
I don't think you can grow Rice in Zimbo anyway. Too arid.
7 posted on 10/14/2005 1:39:07 AM PDT by Shqipo (And so the great battle starts...)
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"As a result, food production has plummeted by an estimated 60 percent since 2000 when Mugabe began seizing farms from whites and giving them over to landless blacks."

"For example, an estimated four million people face starvation this year unless more than one million tonnes of food aid is urgently provided."

"Harare was also planning to seize more land from the few remaining white farmers and give it over to the firms."

So, the government, with millions starving, wants to kill the remaining 40% of food production.

I thought the black Africans were hot to use that farm land. I guess this is a case of cutting your nose off to spite your face.


8 posted on 10/14/2005 1:47:41 AM PDT by Razz Barry
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Heh… now there’s irony for you – a Communist government turning down a deal because they fear that another government’s expropriation of private property may be illegitimate!
10 posted on 10/14/2005 3:53:17 AM PDT by M. Dodge Thomas
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To: ncoaster
We're too stupid to farm bump.
11 posted on 10/14/2005 4:18:29 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: ncoaster
Robert Mugabe is a raciest little prick isn't he.
12 posted on 10/14/2005 7:20:32 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: ncoaster
Heres an Idea give the farms to experienced, motivated, and well supplied people who have been doing it for generations... oh, wait... thats who you took the land from..
14 posted on 10/14/2005 7:33:58 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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