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2005-03-09 Africa: Subsaharan

White land grab policy has failed, Mugabe confesses

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Posted by tu3031 2005-03-09 10:38:40 AM|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Critics said Mr Mugabeâs admission exposed the land grabâs "failure".

Don't hold your breaths waiting for Mugabe to reverse his actions, however....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-09 12:50:32 PM|| 2005-03-09 12:50:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I have and idea! Let's go try it in Venezuela and see if it will work there.

Posted by 2b 2005-03-09 1:35:29 PM|| 2005-03-09 1:35:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 To be fair, the land grab was hugely successful. It's the subsequent attempt to grow stuff that appears to have failed miserably.

Posted by BH 2005-03-09 2:28:33 PM|| 2005-03-09 2:28:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Well if Whitey ever showed up to do my farming for me it would've gone a lot better.

Posted by Farmin B. Hard, War Veteran 2005-03-09 2:30:48 PM|| 2005-03-09 2:30:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 One of the things this article fails to mention is that when a farm was confiscated it was immediately ransacked by bands of Mugabe supporters. The reason the farms were so successful is that they were intensively managed, and the looting included pulling irrigation pipes out of the ground and selling them for scrap.

Some of these farms are now worthless as a result. Other than that, yet another sterling achievement to add to the Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist Book of Human Happiness.

Posted by Dreadnought 2005-03-09 2:47:12 PM|| 2005-03-09 2:47:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Land, money and hard work. And a little bit of good weather. A man without any one of those elements is not a farmer.

Posted by john 2005-03-09 3:22:36 PM|| 2005-03-09 3:22:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Some one reacently asked me what I'd do if I won the Tennessee Lottery. I said "Farm 'till it's all gone".

Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-03-09 3:51:32 PM|| 2005-03-09 3:51:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 LOL! Perhaps you should entre the Georgia peanut lottery, or perhaps spin the giant wheel of tobacco alotments.

Posted by DITSY 2005-03-09 5:44:11 PM|| 2005-03-09 5:44:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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