Zimbabwe -- Land seizures dealt blow

Financial Gazette (Zim) ^ | August 8, 2002 | Staff Reporters

[Clive]

Judging by the government's recent track record in obeying court orders, this looks more to me like a passing swipe than a heavy blow.

The government will most likely simply disregard the order and the judge has just become a candidate for early retirement.

The bank will still lose its security, the farmer will still lose his land.

As the mortgage security sounds in rem and the debt sounds in personam, the farmer will still owe the bank but as he is being driven out of the country, he will not be able to pay the debt and will eventually clear it by filing in bankruptcy wherever and whenever the bank catches up with him.

Africa Wins Again.

[Clive]

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[Nuke'm Glowing]

"Africa Wins Again"

No. Communism wins again. Too bad the U.S.of A. forgot that communism is the true enemy of freedom. Or perhaps we've incorporated it into our way of life without thinking about it.

[Bogey78O]

But a pebble in a river. Mugabe will sweep it aside. Besides it wouldn't have helped too many people.

I do find it odd that it's okay to steal land from whites but not okay to steal it from the bank.

[Dakmar]

What's the revised life expectancy of the judges sitting on the Harare High Court?

[Dakmar]

Africa Wins Again.

Victories like that have a funny way of coming back and biting the victors.

[Bahbah]

I think it's called phyrric.

[45Auto]

The rule of law in Zim is whatever Mugabe says it is.

[Dakmar]

Now, I probly woulda spelt it without the 'h' - pyrric

[johniegrad]

"The farmers must challenge the evictions in court and I believe we will win this case," former Rhodesian premier Ian Smith told the Financial Gazette

What's this guy smoking?

[Bahbah]

Well, duh. And I pride myself on my spelling. I am duly chastised and happily educated.

[Dakmar]

Don't worry about it. I would have been drowned out long ago but for my irrational and exuberant megalomania :-)

[alrea]

Too bad the U.S.of A. forgot that communism is the true enemy of freedom

the enemy is corruption; from clinton and rubin to mugabe and mao, the people in charge misled their way to power and profit.

[Former Young Democrat]

the white farmers should simply take their case against Mugabe to the International Criminal Court, where fair minded U.N. Members can defend their rights and redress their grievences....

oh, I'm sorry, that was the crack pipe talking again.

[Askel5]

THIS nation's Office of Tourism is promoting itself at the Celebrity Shoot?

[happygrl]

Zimbabwean banks and other financial institutions that support commercial agriculture also stand to lose nearly $12 billion because the chaotic land reforms will bankrupt many farmers.

It appears that Comrade Bob is determined to follow the path of Pol Pot and institute Year Zero.

[AnnaZ]

THIS nation's Office of Tourism is promoting itself at the Celebrity Shoot?

Yep, how'd you know?

 

I cut a wiiiiiiide swath around their (double-wide) tent every time I needed to go by it. It was difficult not yelling, "Tigers? Hell, I thought white farmers were in season."

 

:-/

[Askel5]

Looked like you guys were having fun. Can't wait to see the rest of the shots.

I think it's the height of hypocrisy that every Tom, Dick and Dirty Harry pretty boys who's ever used a gun to save his skin in some flick isn't out there.

Thank goodness you guys are around to put the 2nd Amendment in "sportshooting". =) Though it's true one has to wonder if Zimbabwe's presence isn't an ironic reminder in itself that there's more to guns than clay targets and bullseyes. Most bizarre bit of sponsorship I think I've ever seen.

[AnnaZ]

I think it's the height of hypocrisy that every Tom, Dick and Dirty Harry pretty boys who's ever used a gun to save his skin in some flick isn't out there.

 

It's pathetic. (GREAT line, BTW.)

 

 

Though it's true one has to wonder if Zimbabwe's presence isn't an ironic reminder in itself that there's more to guns than clay targets and bullseyes.

 

Bingo, er, BULLSEYE!!!

 

 

Most bizarre bit of sponsorship I think I've ever seen.

 

Yeah, I was really amazed as well, in a nausea-inducing kind of way. Even worse was the amount of people who had no clue about what's been going on there.

 

The Zimbabwe Ministry of Tourism. Only in braindead La-La Land, I tell ya.