You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
Africa: Subsaharan
Minister vows to rid Zimbabwe of 'filth'
2005-09-19
A leading Zimbabwean cabinet minister vowed at the weekend to rid the country of the "filth" of white farmers. Didymus Mutasa, the minister for state security and land reform, said all remaining white farmers must be "cleared out".
That has a rather ominous sound about it
About 400 slow to learn white families are still farming in Zimbabwe, following the seizure by President Robert Mugabe's government of more than 4,000 farms.

Mr Mutasa, one of Mr Mugabe's closest advisers, referred to Operation Murambatsvina ("Clean out the trash" in the Shona language) - the campaign in which the government destroyed the homes of hundreds of thousands of urban poor. "Operation Murambatsvina should also be applied to the land reform programme to clean the commercial farms that are still in the hands of white farmers. White farmers are dirty and should be cleared out. They are similar to the filth that was in the streets before Murambatsvina," said Mr Mutasa, according to the state-controlled Sunday Mail newspaper.
"Abyss dead ahead! Signal all engines full speed!"
The government also announced it had annulled more than 4,000 court challenges by farmers to the expropriation of their farms. Last week Mr Mugabe signed a constitutional amendment taking away the farmers' rights to legally challenge land seizures. "All the challenges are now useless - they are all being nullified," said the chief law officer in the attorney general's office, Nelson Mutsonziwa.
Must be one of those "Living Constitutions" I keep hearing about
Posted by:Steve

#8  I garantee if this was Whites openly slaughtering the blacks or any X minority the UN the LLL's everyone and thier brother would be stepping over themselves to save the day and denounce or stop the abuse.

Equal rights is equal not reverse racism two wrongs dont make a right.
Posted by: C-Low   2005-09-19 23:18  

#7  Where is all of the Race Baiters and Multicultaralist shouldnt they be defending the poor minorities in Zimbabwae suffering under brutal racism??????????

Oh never mind those are just those evil white devils. They deserve only death and persicution.
Posted by: C-Low   2005-09-19 23:16  

#6  You know the weirdest thing about Bob is his middle class English accent. He sounds like a BBC announcer, only his politics aren't as left wing.
Posted by: Secret Master   2005-09-19 17:30  

#5  Toldya. Shoulda boogied last month.
Posted by: mojo   2005-09-19 13:26  

#4  Hmmm, I should have dug around a bit more before offering up that second URL. The site is pretty 'questionable' to my eye, so this URL is the google cache.
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2005-09-19 13:24  

#3  I was going to write some (well, to me) smart-arse comment about having a Kill-a-bob-a-thon, where we'd all tune-in and contribute to a fund to pay some professionals to take him out.

But, there's no point is there? It wouldn't be all that funny - after a while you know that mocking people isn't going to change others perceptions and attitudes.

This is all too real, those white farmers are *going to die* if they stay in the land of their birth. The land they helped to make the breadbasket of Africa.

I think Kim du Toit has got it right, let Africa sink (his server is not available at the moment, Google has a cache).

Ok, found an easier to read version.

It's not a happy read, but remember he did time in an SA jail for being against apartheid and his mum and sister are still there (as of '04).
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2005-09-19 13:06  

#2  Yeah and they lazy too. Ain't not one of them come over here to do my plantin for me.
Posted by: Farmin B. Hard   2005-09-19 12:38  

#1  This is a wonderfull way to encourage foreign investment in Zimbabwe. The IMF and WTF must be foaming at the mouth by now.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2005-09-19 12:36  

00:00