[Clive]

>> "We would be better off with only 6m people, with our own people who support the liberation struggle," said Didymus Mutasa, a Mugabe confidant and Zanu PF organisation secretary. "We don't want all these extra people"

[Lion Den Dan]

"We don't want all these extra people"

If I lived in Zim, I would not want them either. I Live in America and don't want them. These thieving, murderous, slothful savages must be purged by the international community or by the righteous from within their own ranks. The latter will never happen as there are obvious no righteous amongst them.

[Clive]

The media, African and Western, keeps talking about how few farmers occupy such a high percentage of "the best land in Zimbabwe"

But this is veldt.

It can only be described as "the best land" because technological farming and irrigation has made it such.

Take away the technology and the land reverts to veldt, or where there is no cover, to a dust bowl.

When the English settlers arrived they took the red soil veldt land which the indigenous farmers did not want and did not have the technology to farm, leaving the indigenous peoples to continue to farm the rich black alluvial soil land that they did know how to farm.

The English (and a few Afrikaaners) put a lot of technology and sweat equity into making the veldt land profitable. It looks like it will take only the current winter season and the coming summer season to return their work to "zero".

[neutrino]

Zimbabwe -- War veterans starve on their looted land

Gee, that's too bad! I was hoping they would choke on it...

[Junior]

Mugabe'll simply blame the famine on sabotage by white farmers and the opposition.

[MadIvan]

Clive:

Have you yet read "Degrees in Violence" by David Blair? It describes this phenomenon more precisely.

Best Regards, Ivan

[Travis McGee]

Seven million to starve and kill.