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2006-06-26 Africa Subsaharan

White farmers receive eviction notices despite Mugabe pledge

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Posted by ed 2006-06-26 08:41|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hell bent on famine?
It's a new angle, you have to admit.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-26 09:57|| 2006-06-26 09:57|| Front Page Top

#2 I said it a long time ago here on rantburg. There comes a time when its time to cut your losses and move on. Any white farmers still in Zimbabwe have my respect for their tenacity - but it's a losing game. Get out with your lives and be happy.

Posted by 2b 2006-06-26 10:50|| 2006-06-26 10:50|| Front Page Top

#3 "..Didymus Mutasa, the lands and security minister, told Western diplomats this week that he did not care if Zimbabwe's land remained unproductive "as long we [blacks] own it".

Puff Didy will own his own grave too. ZimBob sure knows how to hire talent.

Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-06-26 11:05|| 2006-06-26 11:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Let's cut that AIDS funding from the 2007 budget.

Posted by wxjames 2006-06-26 13:02|| 2006-06-26 13:02|| Front Page Top

#5 The Zimbabwe government is reneging on a pledge to invite exiled white farmers back to work the land...

Reminds me of the scene from Animal House: "You f*ed up - you trusted us."

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-06-26 14:50|| 2006-06-26 14:50|| Front Page Top

#6 A recent Economist article noted signs of growth in Zimbabwe's neighbor Zambia. One possible contributor is the influx of white farmers who crossed the border, taking their expertise and work ethic with them.
Some people think you can steal success outright. You can't. If Bob would have been satisfied with fleecing his economic base instead of skinning it alive, then he'd be just another African despot without the 1200% inflation. But where's the fun in that?

Posted by matt from ill 2006-06-26 14:56|| 2006-06-26 14:56|| Front Page Top

#7 The situation there begs the question-How bad can it get?

Posted by Omairong Hupose3636 2006-06-26 16:38|| 2006-06-26 16:38|| Front Page Top

#8 It can get as bad as the Congo, and the tranzis will not let anyone do anything about it. For those who don't know, POWs in the Congo now serve as mobile meals. Mugabe was let into power back in 1980-81, over the objections of a large majority of the tribal cheftains and the whites, and immediately started ethnic cleansing against the opposition blacks and Asians. He waited a few years to really start in on the whites, milking them for all the money and expertise he could. Personally, I feel that if you are a white farmer/businessman, you would have to be clinically insane to stay in Zimbabwe -- it is a lost cause in the most extreme definition of the word. And it will only get worse, because of Western guilt over colonialism and the tranzi socialist brotherhood backing one of their own.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-06-26 16:53|| 2006-06-26 16:53|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-26 18:14|| 2006-06-26 18:14|| Front Page Top

#10 nice slam at the Joooos in media. Cripes

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-26 18:36|| 2006-06-26 18:36|| Front Page Top

#11 The writer's view on the media, not my own. I can however, understand the frustration. Not a great deal published in the MSM as you may have noticed.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-26 20:02|| 2006-06-26 20:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Please take greater care in quoting next time.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-06-26 21:14|| 2006-06-26 21:14|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-26 18:14|| 2006-06-26 18:14|| Front Page Top

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