Posted on 06/02/2011 7:47:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Zimbabwean farmers attend a meeting of white commercial farmers in capital Harare
Zimbabwe's Supreme Court heard a case on behalf of three farmers who claimed the constitution excluded confiscation of their land because they bought their properties after the colonial era ended with independence in 1980.
The Supreme Court did not agree and quickly dismissed their application.
One of the farmers, Colin Cloete, a former president of the Commercial Farmers’ Union at the height of often violent land invasions seven years ago, was one of the applicants.
He, like many of his colleagues, has been arrested, harassed and appeared in court many times, to try to stay on his farm.
Like most surviving white farmers, the cost of going to court to try to fight his eviction has been unaffordable.
Looking back over the long and difficult years, Cloete, now 58, said his struggle to remain on his farm did not make economic sense.
“Economically we should have moved off then, at the beginning, as we would have been 10 years younger and that much more energetic,” said Cloete.
Cloete said he had begun looking looking for a house in Harare, not least so he could move his possessions to safety.
He said the land invasions launched after Mr. Mugabe lost a referendum in 2000 had hurt him and Zimbabwe’s economy, and no one had benefited from this except the elite in the ZANU-PF Party.
“We are treated like second-class citizens, we are treated like we are still just visitors to this place. My father was born in this country, before Mr. Mugabe, but I am still a visitor,” said Cloete.
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You don’t know how white rule can be maintained in a country that is 95% black. “turning over management to the blacks” - or respecting the wishes of the people as those who believe in democracy call it - was inevitable.
So instead of living in reality, its a good way for you to bash the nasty Brits. Who wouldn’t have been there at all if it wasn’t for colonialism. Something which Americans are not in support of remember. So many logical flaws in your posts its pretty amazing. Keep on replying, and i’ll look forward to helping you with them.
My apologies, i assumed you were American-Irish, rather than actual Irish.
They were better off than Africans in many other colonies, but the fact remains that most of the land was in white hands. I’m not justifying the white colony or the black resistance to it; it is irrelevant to me. I just don’t hink blacks revolted because they were tired of being treated so darn well...
Soon to be followed by America’s middle class.
Thank you very much for your instruction regarding British colonial benevolence. You are truly a master of the subject; perhaps you can start a monarchist party here for them.
There is no such thing as “American Irish”, unless one of your parents was Irish and one was American. I was born in Essex County, NJ, of parents of Irish descent, so I am “actual Irish”.
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Freddie Mercury’s family was booted from the island of Zanzibar as the British withdrew from East Africa; they moved to Britain. The Indians in the East African colonies were unceremoniously shown the door by the blacks, who felt that as the merchant class the Indians hadn’t actually contributed anything but rather profited from black labor; they weren’t allowed to take wealth with them.
We watched from our office windows in NJ; it was bad, but at least we weren’t close enough to see the people falling/jumping. That day will effect many people in this area for the rest of their lives; so many towns in NJ lost some people, and so many people aged years in hours waiting to hear from loved ones working in that area.
It brought out the best in what we were, while demonstrating the flaws in what we had become as well; when mosques were allowed to open the next day, I knew America had lost the will to fight.
I don’t have a link; there are a large number of Portuguese in my neighborhood, many with first-hand knowledge of the wars and the peace. They are divided between those who came here to dodge the draft, and those who served and wouldn’t return to Portugal out of a sense of betrayal (the aftermath was bloody in some areas, especially for blacks who had served Portugal). The former fly the flags and speak fondly of how great Portugal is, while the latter fly American flags and don’t speak of Portugal at all.
In all honesty, I think at this stage of the game armed resistance would be suicide. These thugs operate with the tacit support and approval of Mugabe’s people. The whites would just be slaughtered. The time to fight, for them, has long passed.
For us here, it is just approaching.
Thanks, it’s interesting information in any event, and the plural of anecdote is data. That’s funny about the distinction too, draft-dodgers being nationalists only when it suits them on their terms.
Cradle of mankind...oh you gest...couldn’t be further from the truth...because of the PC that has infested our world today...I do not dare state the truth...let the African blacks have Africa...all whites exit immediately...let the blacks do what they do best...and NO western country give one more penny to support Africa in anyway OR allow any immigration from Africa...let’em figure it out for their selves...
I think they overcompensate a lot (as a person of Irish descent, I know many Irish do that as well); I can’t help but think of the scene in “The King & I” when the Thai students are upset at the relative size of Siam on the world map, which they had never seen before. I have no misconceptions about what either country was, and why our families left. I remember when I was in elementary school many of these children were in my classes; they had been born in Portugal, and came here as infants with their parents. They were the first people I met who had parents that didn’t speak English; most of the Italians and Poles were here for a longer period of time. Many of them still live in the area, too; Portuguese is probably the third largest language in the area after English & Spanish, though the recent immigration has been more from Brazil for Portuguese speakers and other South American countries (particularly Peru & Ecuador) for Spanish speakers.
Are you in Newark?
Mugabe is a bloodstained commie tyrant. But, these doom and gloom stories are being peddled by people with an agenda. Take them with many grains of salt.
“...the same writing on the wall that can now be seen in places like South Africa and California.”
...and in Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Oakland, New York, Philadelphia, etc.
Right outside it (Kearny); many of the Portuguese who initially settled in Ironbound Newark have since migrated into Harrison and Kearny (north of Ironbound, east of North Newark - basically between Newark & Jersey City, bordering both), and they’ve been replaced by many Brazilians and other South Americans in Ironbound Newark. The restaurants are still Portuguese owned, and the chefs and maitre de will be Portuguese, but the other staff seems to be almost exclusively South American (and not the W-2 type).
We’ve had a Portuguese-American mayor in Kearny for years now.
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