Posted on 03/18/2002 3:43:09 PM PST by Clive
Are white liberals also smiling with glee?
Hmmm---so they "..HOGGED 70% of the prime farmland..", did they?? I wonder if it was "prime farmland" BEFORE the whites arrived and made it so.
And where is the outrage over the genocide in Rhodesia and the coming genocide in South Africa?
What we're seeing here is a glimpse into the future that awaits American whites, unless as a nation we put a stop to Third World immigration soon.
Actually it was not.
The incoming settlers (Mainy Brits, not Africaaners) took the veldt red soil less productive land which the native farmers did not want and did not know how to farm.
The natives kept the rich black alluvial soil which they had traditionally farmed. I suspect tht the "peasant" was not a peasant as the term is usually knows. T he farm workers are in the main loyal to their employers. After all, like any employee anywhere, they get paid for their labour whether or not the farmer brings in the crop and is able to sell it at a profit.
The so-called "peasants" are actually Zanu PF thugs who have invaded the farms.
In numbers, the most victims are among the farm workers who have been displaced from their homes and are living hard in the bush and who as a result were not able to vote because they could not prove residence.
Utterly absent.
And the silence from America's Watchdog Press is.... well, about what I expected.
When they were outraged at "white-minority governments" their dudegeon knew few bounds. Now that majority rule is showing its fangs and proving to be mob rule tarted up in pretty clothes, they loose their voices.
Interesting wording in this sentence, eh? Was this written by an American college student?
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Not to worry. The good ol' Americans will come to the thug's aid by flooding Zimbabwe with food and capital aid courtesy of you and me. After all, we just can't let all those innocent people starve, now can we? (/rant)
Zimbabwe was agriculturally self sufficient, a net agrarian exporter.
Now, Zimbabwe needs to import 100,000 tonnes of maize per month but only about 26,000 tonnes is being delivered.
It is autumn in the southern hemisphere. The summer crop was a disaster, caused both by El Niño and by the loss of production caused by the farm invasions.
It looks like there will be no winter crop.
Some of the results of the invasions were:
Turning cattle into standing crops.
Destruction of standing crops by the mobs
Dispersal of the labour force into the bush
Farmers summarily ordered off the land before the crops were harvested.
Destruction of farm infrastructure
Spread of antrhax by breaking down fences separating domestic cattle from wild herds where the disease is endemic.
Spread of hoof-and-mouth disease by moving cattle that ought to have been quarentined.
Destruction of grazing land by arson of the veldt.
This is veldt farming requiring large farms and a high level of technology.
Market gardens won't work.
Yet the farms are being broken up into small holdings and handed over to farmers who do not know how to farm the veldt. At best they are alluvial soil farmers and at worst the are party hacks who have been rewarded for thuggery instead of agrarian competence.
So, for example, we have the picture of farm familys ignoring or dismantling drip irrigation equipment and carrying water over a klick from creeks in pails.
Large number of experienced farm workers have been displaced and are living hard in the bush or sneaking into South Africa while a much smalled number of small holders are replacing them.
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