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Africa Subsaharan
Zimbabwe: Chinese Given Farms
2016-09-20
h/t Gates of Vienna
Farms built up and created by whites in Zimbabwe--and forcibly seized by the black government in an anti-white racist frenzy--are being handed over to Chinese "immigrants," it has been revealed.

The farms--large-scale operations which were previously the backbone of the Zimbabwean agricultural industry--have collapsed after being seized from their white owners.

According to a report in Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, farms "just north of Harare lie fallow amid broken fences, fields scorched by fires and scarce livestock. There are few surviving indigenous trees as many were felled by new farmers who could not afford coal to cure their tobacco."

The Chinese farmers, the paper said, are taking over the "former white-owned farms in Zimbabwe to cash in on tobacco" crops. Tobacco--along with many foodstuffs--grow easily in the country’s warm climate and rich soil, but appear to be beyond the Africans’ ability to manage.
IMO, they should've stuck with whites --- Chinese don't need Africans for cheap labor.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#9  Women, Children, and Farmin B. Hard hardest hit.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2016-09-20 19:08  

#8  If I eat food from one of their farms, will I be hungry an hour later?
Posted by: Raj   2016-09-20 16:23  

#7  So. The Chinese colonization of Africa has begun. I find myself unable to root for either side. Is it kosher to hope that they all fail?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2016-09-20 12:47  

#6  Little different than ME families and gas station/corner stores. Easy to engage if you're the right ethnicity, have government support and use strong family ties for slave labor.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-09-20 11:36  

#5  Chinese in ZimBobwe taking over farms.

Is that cultural appropriation or colonialism?
How strongly do you think Beijing will support this if the locals decide that yellow is no better than white?
Posted by: AlanC   2016-09-20 10:55  

#4   Yep B, however that same strata of the ruling class today is firmly against white majority rule in America (cause that is racist).

Yes indeed. The destruction of the predominately white, American 'middle class' anomaly is paramount. We must constandly be reminded; "You didn't build that."
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-09-20 10:39  

#3  Yep B, however that same strata of the ruling class today is firmly against white majority rule in America (cause that is racist).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-09-20 10:34  

#2  "Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-09-20 10:27  

#1  Regime change back in the day:

In 1976, backed by British leaders and the "world community," U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger summoned Smith to Geneva and gave him a heavy dose of power politics. If Rhodesia would not agree to immediately allow majority rule, Smith was told, her oil supplies would be cut off and more sanctions would be imposed.

Link
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-09-20 09:34  

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