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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".
3 posted on
08/11/2002 3:22:33 AM PDT by
Clive
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>"I guess the point is that we are fundamentally law-abiding folk," said Ben Freething, who farms in Mashonaland. "Most farmers just cannot get their heads around the idea that they might be arrested for living in their homes and trying to carry on producing sorely needed food on land they either bought or which has been in their family for generations."They should get their head around that idea really quick. This has the potential of becoming a bloodbath. When the U.N. armed the worst of the indigenous in Fiji, the honest ethnic Indians who had been disarmed earlier ended up sharpening kitchen knives in hopes of defending themselves against armed Fijians.
>"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 (farm workers)."
Looks like more of the U.N.godly population control agenda. Stir them up, encourage them to kill each other and rip off the land from the landowners. This is the same agenda the globalists are trying all around the world.
Dan 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
4 posted on
08/11/2002 4:08:17 AM PDT by
2sheep
To: Clive
The English (and a few Afrikaaners) put a lot of technology and sweat equity into making the veldt land profitable.Have you ever visited the Imperial Valley in far Southern California? The landscape originally resembled something like the backside of the moon. Through very hard work and a lot of technology including massive irrigation, it is now a very productive agricultural region. It requires constant upkeep. If you threw the farmers off and put in city-dwellers with no agricultural background, it would go to hell in a hand-basket very quickly. And it looks like that's what Pol Pot Mugabe wants for Zimbabwe.
9 posted on
08/11/2002 5:37:07 AM PDT by
xJones
To: Clive
"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." True. Most people don't know this. The white farms requires technology that the Africans do not know how to use.
14 posted on
08/11/2002 7:45:51 AM PDT by
blam
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