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Africa: Subsaharan
Mugabe legalises seizure of white farms
2005-09-13
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has confirmed signing into law controversial constitutional changes he says will finally settle any dispute over the legality of seizing white-owned farms. Mr Mugabe, who is on a state visit to Cuba, says he has approved laws passed two weeks ago by Zimbabwe's Parliament that allow his Government to effectively nationalise formerly white-owned farms and impose travel bans on "traitors".

"The amendment ends any doubt about the acquisition of land from British settlers," he said. "That it is now final and no one can question it. Our constitution has put a seal to the liberation of our land and its acquisition by our nation." The changes also provide for the creation of a Senate as the second chamber of Parliament. Critics of Mr Mugabe say the new chamber would be packed with the veteran leader's allies. But Mr Mugabe describes it as a "consolidation of national power". He says elections for the Senate would be held before the end of the year.
Posted by:Fred

#20  er, so when your policies kill off all the locals, we can move back in, right? I mean, since nobody will be living there anyway?
Posted by: BH   2005-09-13 21:41  

#19  Well if those stats are right, there will soon be more ex-Rhodesians than Zimbabweans. A close contest for a true Darwin award, with the Zimbos coming in a close first, the Rhodesians won, we came second. J-Dams now, and then explain.
Posted by: rhodesiafever   2005-09-13 17:17  

#18  #7: Life expectancy is now 36 years for women and 37 years for men
Well at least there's some hope, just how old is Mugabe?
Looks well past his thirties.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2005-09-13 12:53  

#17  #13: Phil's stats are accurate. Most of it can be attributed to the 25% HIV infection rate made worse by the Mugabe engineered chronic malnutrition.

Oh Shit, I remember reading that the African Natives believe "Western" medicine is not curing them, but is used as a means to infect them, Coupled with another statistic I read some years ago that No AIDS patient has lived over 8 years (May be different now) and I feel safe predicting a empty country up for grabs within 15 years (Give or take 5)

Just needs sterilization, and move in.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2005-09-13 11:52  

#16  ed: you can add to that list of problems Bob's extremely successful "AIDS is a myth made up by the white man" program in the rural parts of the country. No, I am not kidding.
Posted by: Secret Master   2005-09-13 11:47  

#15  #5: So who's bicycle sprocket did he steal for that top medal?

Nah, that's an emergency Ninja Star, for public assassination attempts, just rip off and throw.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2005-09-13 11:42  

#14  Rank Order - HIV/AIDS - deaths
Posted by: ed   2005-09-13 11:33  

#13  Phil's stats are accurate. Most of it can be attributed to the 25% HIV infection rate made worse by the Mugabe engineered chronic malnutrition. The 25% infection rate is not sustainable because without the latest and expensive AIDS cocktails, the survival time is short compared to that in the US.
Rank Order - HIV/AIDS - deaths
Notice the US with 300 million people and about 1 million infected had 14,000 AIDS deaths in 2003 vs. 170,000 in Zimbabwe.
Posted by: ed   2005-09-13 11:22  

#12  Phil_B's a fascist opressor, the only reason the life expenctancy dropped is due to white flight. When the 200,000 whites (who lived an average of 974 yrs.) left it created an artifical statistic.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-09-13 11:00  

#11  phil_b, are those stats right? If so, that is appalling.
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2005-09-13 10:15  

#10  This be great news! Now I can be tellin my sons Plantin B. and Fertilizin B. that all this dust pit be theirs someday. Legally. Lessen of course I piss off Bob...
Posted by: Farmin B. Hard   2005-09-13 09:07  

#9  Dear Bob:

If you and Kaddafi are done taking turns showing off my sprocket, I'd appreciate its prompt return so I can do that France thing next year, OK?
Posted by: Lance Armstrong   2005-09-13 09:06  

#8  Phil,

You're just a racist white oppressor for pointing stuff like that out. You probably think the ex-Rhodesians would be better off under white minority rule, don't you? Why are you so stupid as to not realize that this minor trouble is just a phase on the way to the political maturation of the country? It's obvious youre just a honky ofay mofo who wants to confuse the issue with "facts."
When the "radiant future" the sainted Mr. Hobsbawm envisions for the world arrives, we'll know how to deal with capitalist running dogs like you. Frantz and Stokely (and that old honky Uncle Joe) laid it out for us line by line a long time ago. /sarcasm off
Posted by: mac   2005-09-13 05:51  

#7  Life expectancy is now 36 years for women and 37 years for men and still dropping. Under white rule it was over 60 years.
Posted by: phil_b   2005-09-13 02:49  

#6  "That it is now final and no one can question it."

Of course questioning a law would be against the law. Otherwise it wouldnt be much a law, now would it?
Posted by: Baba Tutu   2005-09-13 02:43  

#5  So who's bicycle sprocket did he steal for that top medal?
Posted by: Al-Aska Paul   2005-09-13 02:32  

#4  Starvation in 2 years minimum, and guess who he'll expect to send free food by the freighterload.

Awww, that was too easy.US of course.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2005-09-13 02:29  

#3  Mugabe legalises seizure of white farms

Mugabe's black ownership = wish sandwiches
Posted by: Red Dog   2005-09-13 01:50  

#2  Racist bastard.

His regime is the platonic ideal of an African dictatorship - a handy scapegoat to blame all the troubles on (whites, Tutsi's), suspension of habeus corpus, the slow destruction of the wealth-creating section of the economy, nepotism as state policy, gagging of the press, state visits to the Arse of the World, the promise of free and fair elections (always the promise) and nice shiny medals - lots of medals. Someone, somewhere, please, take him out - .22 or JDAM, makes no difference to me (actually I'd prefer the JDAM - I understand you get a fine mist on detonation).
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2005-09-13 01:38  

#1  Oh, well, as long as there is a law, then it's OK.
Posted by: Jackal   2005-09-13 00:13  

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