- Isn't it nice? Mugabe & his assorted
scum seize the farms, drive the White farmers off, and bankrupt many of
them. Then, after years of either complete neglect, or just the general
trashing of the farms - now that everything is broken he asks for the White
farmers to come back and lease some of the land on a 99-year basis. I have
a 4-letter response to that!
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- Some of the white farmers are down-and-out
enough to actually dare to do so. With the skyrocketing food prices, one
could, in theory make a killing now - if you can actually manage to grow
something. But chances are that the farmers will also have to contend with
a massive theft problem as starving blacks will try to steal from them.
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- From what I have heard, the majority
of White farmers will not waste their time coming back. Only a few will
take up his offer.
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- Imagine, unemployment in Zimbabwe is
now at 80% and inflation will soon hit the 1000% mark. Even the official
inflation rate is at 913%. Well, it serves him right. Zimbabwe is trashed
and smashed, and will perhaps take 50+ years to get back to where it was
at the time he destroyed it.
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- I doubt that country will be able to
recover from what he did because others will pass it by. Opportunities
have been lost which will never be seen again. Let it serve as a monument
to BLACK RACISM. - Jan
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- BBC News
- 4-25-6
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- Zimbabwe has confirmed that it is offering
land to white farmers who had their property seized under President Robert
Mugabe's land reform programme. Deputy Information Minister Bright Matonga
told the BBC any Zimbabwean can apply for land and that farms would be
allocated on long leases. But he said that farmers would not necessarily
get back land they lost. Critics say the reforms have devastated Zimbabwe's
agriculture-based economy and led to massive food shortages. On Friday,
the Commercial Farmers" Union said 200 white farmers had applied for
land over the past two weeks.
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- In 2000, there were some 4,000 white
farmers working on much of the best land. Just 300 remain after a campaign
of often violent land seizures. The Zimbabwe government is portraying white
farmers as having finally come to their senses, accepting that they cannot
resist Mr Mugabe's land reform programme. "They are begging us for
land," Mr Matonga told the BBC. But BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut
says hard facts have driven this policy U-turn. By confiscating the white-owned
commercial farms, the government transformed a country that was once the
breadbasket of Southern Africa into a net food importer. And despite good
rains there is every prospect of another deficit over the coming season,
our correspondent says.
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- Mr Mugabe has admitted that there was
corruption in the distribution of the farms seized from the whites. Poor
blacks farmers, in whose name the land reform was carried out, were often
left to fend for themselves. Without capital, implements or seed, many
failed to use the land productively and agricultural output has collapsed.
Tobacco used to be Zimbabwe's major export earner but production has fallen
from 237m kg in 2000 to 73m kg last year.
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- The white farmers are being invited to
apply for land on the same basis as other Zimbabweans. Successful applicants
will be given 99-year leases. The unclear legal status of the farms is
another factor in the declining agricultural output, which the government
hopes will soon be solved. Zimbabwe is now poorer than it was at independence
in 1980, after it had survived 16 years of sanctions and eight years of
civil war. Mr Mugabe says his policy is designed to reverse colonial policies,
which saw blacks evicted from their land and moved into marginal areas.
He says Zimbabwe's economic problems stem from a western campaign to bring
down his government.
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- Source: ZwNews.Com
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