Posted on 03/21/2017 8:36:51 AM PDT by grundle
I would have plowed rock salt into my fields and left never to return.
We had a Zimbabwean grad student in the department @ 15 years ago. His family had a large beef operation and dairy. His family saw the writing on the wall and smuggled all of their wealth out in gold.
IQ < 85 found it a hard roe to hoe. Farming didn’t turn out so easy huh? Didn’t realize the personal investment required to make the difference between rough acreage and abundant production.
Now the value is nil, want someone else to build it all back up. Dictator seized a large time investment in the first taking! Now realizes it wasn’t the land, but the people working the land, that were of value. Can’t openly admit it, without losing face.
When I went to Zambia 2 years ago on safari I met a couple who had owned a farm in Zimbabwe and lost it to Mugabe. We talked a lot over dinners, and are still in touch via Facebook. Lots of interesting stories, and they lost several friends in the fighting that led up to their having to finally flee. He and his family do live in Zambia now.
He has been flying his little Cessna into Zimbabwe and over his old farm to see what's been going on, and the fields have not been used and the buildings are just falling down... they haven't been doing anything with the farm.
He's been working with the World Court for years now, and is still hoping that will eventually result in some sort of compensation.
Does anyone know how the white farmers were received in Zambia? Were they welcomed with open arms and integrated into Zambian society? Were they grudgingly accepted? Were they barely tolerated? Were they resented and discriminated against?
Why? So the whites can be butchered by mugabe’s hatchetmen again?
Nope, let them starve to death on their land free of white men.
Actions have consequences.
The article has much correct information, but fails to accurately record the history of the actual race relations--the most peaceful in the world, before the lynching of the Rhodesian people;--and the pattern of settlement, as well as how the White settlers actually protected Mugabe's tribe from the Matabele. (The settlers developed land in the highland areas. They did not dispossess either of the Rhodesian tribes.)
Bad juju? Evil spirits? Not enough Brawndo (it's got electrolytes!!!)?
It ain’t workin’ so hot here, either!
Actions have consequences. The people who cheered land “reform” are the ones who are starving today. Unfortunately, some decent people were hurt too, and a few of them were foolish enough to stay.
Zimbabwe was just a test run for what they want to do in the US. Just look at what they are doing to the ranchers out West. Communists are Communists are Communists. When will people ever learn?
Evicted White Farmers Feed Zimbabwe
https://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2016/03/23/evicted-white-farmers-feed-zimbabwe
That is a very good point
Expect Zimbabwe to invade Zambia down the road.
I think you might be alluding to a “Bell curve” here. Don’t say that stuff near Middlebury.
Fool me three times, don’t get fooled again.
“white commercial farmers lose farms to landless blacks who are said to lack the skills to farm or capital. “
Not exactly. The land went to cronies of Mugabe who probably never worked a day in their lives.
“Mugabe has some nerve asking these farmers to come back”
Come back? From the dead?
May the maggot eat Mugabe.
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