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To: Clive
Mugabe ...says it is immoral for the 4 500 white farmers to occupy 70% of the country's best farm land

Was it the "best farmland" before the whites developed it? (I suspect not.) Is it "moral" to starve one's own country, to satisfy racial-political abstractions or for any other reason? Is it "moral" to persecute the small percentage of whites who trusted the black government enough to stick around as a politically powerless minority after Rhodesia fell? Will we soon see Soviet style explanations for agricultural failure -- "due to the 70th straight year of unusual weather blah blah blah..." (See, I'm not a racist, I can admit that whites can be incompetent too. Da, konyechno!)

A bumper sticker I've seen in California farm country, any white Rhodesian might appreciate:
PUT A FARMER OUT OF BUSINESS -- STARVE!

10 posted on 03/22/2002 7:38:30 AM PST by Rytwyng
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To: Rytwyng
The farmers were agreeing to giving up a lot of their land, land they'd owned and farmed for generations.
Large parcels of land had already been turned over and lay fallow.
But when Mugabe saw Morgan Tsvangarai's political star rising,
he needed to do something and ordered the siezure of the white farms to begin.
12 posted on 03/22/2002 7:44:00 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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