With the price of corn increasing 700% in Zimbabwe, do they wish the farms were still owned by whites ?

Question

Robert Mugabe siezed the farms owned by whites and gave them to his black friends. Well surprise surprise thecountry once great farming industry has went down the shi_tter.

Answer 1

As long as Robert Mugabe remains in power, he doesn't give a flying Philadelphia **** about anyone or anything else.

IIRC, part of the reason grain prices are up 700% is that inflation levels are at levels that rival those racked up in Germany in the 1920's.

I just hope that who ever overthrows Mugabe has enough sense to run the country rather than run it into the ground.

The old Rhodesia hands wouldn't recognize the country it has been so badly ruined.

Answer 2

Race has little if anything to do with it. Mugabe inherited his country while it was doing pretty well. Things were prosperous, and things looked good for the country. Obviously this is not how things turned out. The guy is a power-hungry lunatic. He gave his farms to his buddies... people who were probably not qualified to run farms to begin with, and people probably as greedy as he is by figuring out ways to keep the money for themselves that was supposed to be used on other things.

So race really has very little or anything to do with it. It's Mugabe giving assets to his buddies rather than people who are qualified and not greedy enough to steal from their own country/business.

Answer 3

Its not the colour of the farmers skin thats causing the farms to fail, its the breaking up of the land into smaller family or indevidual plots by the Mugabe regieme to reward the families of those who supported him (its a tecnique as old as time, take land from your enemy and use it to bribe your supporters). The small parcells of land then become worked out and infertile, turning to dust.

I was in Zimbabwe in 1999, just as this process was beginning and everyone i spoke to could see it was going to happen....

Why would billions of dollars be spent in Afghanistan and Iraq every week to stabalise the middle east and nothing is done to remove a dictator determined to starve a large area of Africa?

Answer 4

not all blacks are futile, young apprentice.