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"Cloete said the government's land reform drive now looked more like it was intended to purge the white farmer."

What gave him his first clue?

Cloete is a slow learner.

His spokeswoman Jenni Williams was well advised to quit in disgust last week after his latest exercise in appeasement when he appealed to the "goodwill" of the government while failing to get an audience with Mugabe.

1 posted on 07/24/2002 7:29:49 PM PDT by Clive
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2 posted on 07/24/2002 7:30:17 PM PDT by Clive
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To: Clive
The "man" is holdin' me down!
3 posted on 07/24/2002 7:32:48 PM PDT by spanky_mcfarland
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To: Clive
Amnesty International: "Don't call us, we'll call you." Resume listening to Muzak.
4 posted on 07/24/2002 7:59:06 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Clive
The often violent and chaotic land reforms are largely blamed for disrupting farming last season and causing a 60 percent plunge in food production, triggering the current food crisis which threatens half of Zimbabwe's population or six million people.

Gee, that's too bad. Guess they should have thought about that, aye?
Hope they don't come knocking on the US taxpayers doors looking for handouts.
Starvation and AIDs. I hope they feel they were worth dieing for. They "chose" to dig their own graves in so many ways.

5 posted on 07/24/2002 8:39:00 PM PDT by concerned about politics
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