Mozambique Accepts Mugabe’s White Farmers

PRAVDA.Ru ^ | Aug, 22 2002 | Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY

[Jasonconley]

The white farmers that Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe expels in his land reform programme need not look further than neighbouring Mozambique, which has 32 million hectares of unexploited arable land ready and waiting.

[Sangamon Kid]

From the article: The Vice Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Joao Carrilho, declared that the government is studying the requests “in detail”.

This is very promising. Doesn't sound perfect, but once the benefits of large scale farming become apparent, I believe that Mozambique, if they have a lick of common sense, will be begging to get their "bread buttered" by these exiled farmers...leaving the despotic Mr. Mugabe frothing in fits of rage.

[Dakmar]

Mozabique is well on it's way to becoming the most prosperous of all African nations. How will the communists manage to screw it up? I'm sure they're plotting as we speak. If there's anything commuunists hate worse than prosperity, it's prosperity helped along by western civilization.

[Captain Shady]

I believe I'd just get out of Africa.

[End Times Sentinel]

It seems the white farmers of Zimbabwe will have the last laugh on Mugabe, whose only hope to feed his starving millions in the coming years will either be to call them back, or buy food from them over the border.

I wouldn’t start grinning just yet. What’s to stop the Mozambique govt. from letting the farmers get the land up and running only to have it “redistributed to landless blacks”? If Rhodesia didn’t have any qualms about kicking out farmers who’ve been in the country since it was first settled, simply because of their skin color, why on earth would Mozambique not do the same thing to farmers who’ve only been there for ten years?

I believe that Mozambique, if they have a lick of common sense, will be begging to get their "bread buttered" by these exiled farmers

Unfortunately, while your statement makes excellent logical sense, “Common sense” is something that’s in desperately short supply on the continent.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Reminds me of a comment attributed to the Caliph of the Ottoman empire at the time that the Jews were kicked out of Spain and were invited to settle in Turkey.  He said something to the effect that he had heard that the Spanish King was wise, but he found him rather dull.

[Dakmar]

Sounds like President Bush may have a surprise for Mugabe, check this out.

[Sangamon Kid]

“Common sense” is something that’s in desperately short supply on the continent.

Very true. It seems greed and envy have more often than not triumphed over right thinking, hence the chronic impoverished state of the continent as a whole. Africa will continue to be the poster child of 3rd world economies for generations to come if Mugabeism (same disease, new name) continues unabated.

[Musket]

From the link:

PRAVDA.Ru Mozambique :2 million affected by drought
PRAVDA.Ru Mozambique : Cholera
PRAVDA.Ru Mozambique : children sold for organs
Mail & Guardian : Mozambique may reject GM food aid
Christian Science Monitor : Lessons for Afghanistan from Mozambique
BBC : Cyclone will miss Mozambique
BBC : Mozambique hit by new floods

Gee, sounds like a really nice place!Coming from places like this, those that attended the Reparations Rally Saturday should be THANKING US! Go figure......

[mikeIII]

If we had any mettle, this is what we should do. Freeze all aid to Zimbo Mugabe and divert it to Mozambique to resettle the farmers and aid the production there. Then export food at cost to Zimbabwe, from the same farmers who used to produce it ther.

[Kenton]

Send UN troops to assist in the evacuation of the white farmers then fence off the border. The start a lottery to predict the date that the starving Zim's revert to their traditional tribal ways and turn Mugabe into "long pig".

[Search4Truth]

And they will turn it into productive farm land that will feed many.