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2004-06-09 Africa: Subsaharan

Mugabe nationalises the lot in shock land grab

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Posted by Steve 2004-06-09 1:45:55 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Bob sez: "Welcome to Starvation Island. Population: YOU."

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-06-09 2:15:06 PM|| 2004-06-09 2:15:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Steve, you forgot, "In Bob, we trust...or else"

Posted by Dripping Sarcasm 2004-06-09 2:17:35 PM|| 2004-06-09 2:17:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Time for anybody who likes to eat to pack up and leave. And burn your house before you go. Gotta clear up room on the land for the "war veterans", you know.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-06-09 2:19:29 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-06-09 2:19:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 what good is a 99yr lease issued by a Gov't that on a whim takes all privately held land? Like a "lease" would stop them during the next round...

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-09 2:33:54 PM|| 2004-06-09 2:33:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Frank---do not read logic into an illogical situation. Like Spock sez, that is not logical. Methinks that the goose has just about been squeezed of all its golden eggs. And the great nation of South Africa sits by and lets this whole thing go down. So much for kumbaya.....

Posted by Alaska Paul in Chefornak 2004-06-09 2:51:09 PM|| 2004-06-09 2:51:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 So what about those farmers who have already borrowed against their land? Somehow I doubt billy-bob will honor their liens when the banks start calling....

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-06-09 2:55:14 PM|| 2004-06-09 2:55:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I pledge allegence to the Chief,
and of the tribe for which he stands,
One wasteland, under Bob, confiscateable,
With all proceeds deliv'rable to him.

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-09 2:55:41 PM|| 2004-06-09 2:55:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm reading a piece here from the Cape Times. Sounds like it has more to do with Bob and his cronies getting in on the game park action. I guess they've now figured out that there is actual hard work involved with farming... So the new low hanging fruit is the "lucrative game sector". (At $50M/year it's only lucrative in race to the bottom Zimbabwe terms.) Bob probably threw the farm land into the mix so he can skip the niceties of the current expropriation program. There are still almost 400 white farmers left after all. These folks have got to be tougher and more stubborn than all the "war veterans" looking to do a bit of farming. (Note to State Department: Offer immigrant visa program to Zim farmers.) Bob may also want to reallocate some of the land he's already handed out.

Couldn't help but notice this paragraph on the game situation:

The army is involved in a lot of the poaching. We are getting reports of (soldiers) using landmines to kill hippos for meat near Binga (on Lake Kariba). There are trophy-hunters coming in with no legal quotas. Three Americans recently shot 38 trophies without proper permits."

Shipman, were you involved with that hunting party? I mean the permit free trophy bagging one, not the landmines for hippo one.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2004-06-09 3:59:15 PM|| 2004-06-09 3:59:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 No American should be trophy hunting in Zim-bob-we, unless they're hunting for Bobs.

Posted by Steve White 2004-06-09 4:52:11 PM|| 2004-06-09 4:52:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 ima hate that guy mustache!

shipman beter not be involve killing hippo.

Posted by muck4doo 2004-06-09 4:53:58 PM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2004-06-09 4:53:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 you would know better than we...

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-09 5:15:54 PM|| 2004-06-09 5:15:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Land mine's about right for a hippo - them thing's are dangerous!

The hippos, I mean.

Posted by mojo 2004-06-09 5:41:17 PM|| 2004-06-09 5:41:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Let's see if Bob can figure out what donor fatigue really means. When he and his cronies have expelled, murdered, or starved all the productive people and there's no one left but Friends of Bob, to whom will they look for food when their money runs out. No one, not even the loony left will lift a finger to help as they drop the final few millimeters into savagery. When there's no one left to fight but each other and nothing left to eat but each other, there will be no one to help. No white NGOs running to feed them, no UN agency running to loan them money. Just a world waiting for them to die. No sane white person will ever set foot in that land until Mugabe and his followers are all dead. I think a lot of Zimbabweans wished they were living in Rhodesia and that Mugabe had never been born.

Posted by RWV 2004-06-09 6:48:02 PM|| 2004-06-09 6:48:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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