[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.

[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.

[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.

[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?

[Live free or die]

I see another Somalia in the making!

[xJones]

Mugabe has scorned criticism that the state-backed invasions of white-owned farms that began in February 2000 are a reckless, racist land grab that will destroy an agricultural sector whose surplus output for decades has rescued other African countries from starvation.

The domino effect, Zimbabwe starves, other African countires next...But the other African leaders don't condemn Mugabe, perhaps they lack the legitimacy to do so.