Zim a 'tragic disaster'

News24 (SA) ^ | September 1, 2002

[Clive]

"The only sign of any seed was with two women on the road near the turn off to Tsatsi who swept the tar for maize pips that fell off passing trucks."

[Clive]

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[dts32041]

And the cult of the United Methodist Church is asking for money to feed these poor unfortunate victims of the land redistrubtion policy, and I am not talking about the white farmers.

Give em some fishing line and hooks.

[Real Cynic No More]

"... started on Sunday and was marked by the lighting of bushfires that blackened the countryside."

I wonder if they know - or care - that this contributes to global warming.

[Dog Gone]

"The owner was a brilliant farmer. This guy might get three bags of maize from it," he said.

Lovely.

At this point, I think all we can do is hope that Zimbabwe dies. Nobody is willing to fight for it, and until they wake up and take the country back from Mugabe, they have earned what they sowed.

I'm very disappointed in the white farmers, too. There was little to no resistance, and no effort to flee the inevitable. What's up with that?

[Grani]

Thanks for this horrifying post. It reminds me of what a probation officer in L.A. told me. After the Rodney King riots, a client was complaning bitterly about the fact that his grandmother's grocery had been burned down, and she was having trouble getting food. "I know," replied the officer, "you helped burn it down."

[Lancey Howard]

However, there were only two small areas the size of a tennis court ploughed on the 2,500-hectare Ruorka.

I heard that the US Open was suspended today because of rain. That's a shame for tennis fans.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Maybe they were outnumbered. I kind of wondered about that when I first heard about this. They'll starve to death and blame everyone but themselves.

[blam]

"He added that they would probably out-produce the white farmers."

Right!

[eclectic]

Colonialism was a Good Thing. Too bad it has ended due to world-wide spread of communism and liberalism. Here's hoping colonialism will return someday in one form or another, maybe as American Imperialism. Otherwise we are all doomed.

[Calvin Locke]

Must be smoking the same stuff as the new crew at the NYT.

[BlazingArizona]

I'm very disappointed in the white farmers, too. There was little to no resistance, and no effort to flee the inevitable. What's up with that?

Seconded. I think the problem was that the farmers were still too culturally British for their own good. As such, they trusted government to do the right thing and at the same time had no concept of self-defense. American farmers would have organized, shipped in guns and mounted a defense while there was still time.

[Clive]

Population of Zimbabwe - 12.5 million

White population of Zimbabwe - 40,000 and declining

Number of white farm families 2 years ago 4,500

Number of white farm families today 3,200 and declining.

[cgbg]

Like 9-11 what has happened in Zim is not a disaster. Disaster in current usage implies it is the result of natural or unknown or unknowable forces.

It is rather an atrocity committed by perps. The perps should be hung and shot.

[Jim Noble]

>>He added that they would probably out-produce the white farmers<<

No doubt.

The difference between farming or any other productive activity, and academic theories like socialism, is that people need to eat. We'll see what Mugabe's subjects are eating soon.

[Regulator]

The farmers who are left are the liberals who bought the b.s. about being one big happy Zimbabwean family. The Rhodesians - whites who had no illusions about a dim witted thug like Mugabe - left over the past 20 years, and mostly went to South Africa.

The land was never "taken" from anyone. The farms were carved out of land which had never been cultivated. Rhodesia was an area which had little population 100 years ago, because it requires irrigation and relatively advanced farming techniques, neither of which any tribal group knew how to do.

As "Zimbabwe" collapses, there may come a time when the Rhodesians make a comeback, but I doubt it. Even if they could muster say, 30,000 people to fight, there would still be millions of blacks, and the spectacle of whites fighting to take back their land would be too much for the Peter Jennnings of the world. Condemnation and outrage would ensue.

Note that no such condemnation and outrage are occurring now, except in a few British papers and in the netherworld of conservative internet sites.

[Tijeras_Slim]

"The government's first resettlement initiatives were well-funded and supervised by donors - and they were still a mess," said a Western diplomat.

Any idea who these were? The usual supects of NGO's, anti-globalists, eco-communists, and the like?

[reg45]

We'll see what Mugabe's subjects are eating soon.

First the white farmers, then each other!

[backhoe]

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First it was Rhodesia then SA now America paying the price of silence.

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