...and now Zimbabwe is starving and its going to get worse. Nice move dictator Mugabe. )*
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=st ... abwe_dc_23
Zimbabwe government expells whites farmers from their land...
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe dashed the hopes of thousands of white farmers Monday, saying those targetted by his land reform must surrender their property without delay to landless blacks.
<i>The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said in a statement Mugabe's land policy had cost 70,000 black farmworkers their jobs and had affected 250,000 dependants.
"Mugabe's fast-track land resettlement program is not only defined by its illegality and its violence, but also by its crude short-sightedness and political opportunism," it said. </i>
Could't be racially motivated, now could it. :;
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The armpit of the world................Africa.
My heart weeps for those poor farmers.
Africa wins the prize hands down for the continent going to hell in a hand basket...
fast.
This has been going on for several years now in different countries.
Roving marauding gangs are a serious problem.
Africa wins the prize hands down for the continent going to hell in a hand basket...
fast.
This has been going on for several years now in different countries.
Roving marauding gangs are a serious problem.
Hmmmm...... 2 bucks and all it does is transport matter.I'll give you 35 cents
Precious like a mother's love....or the other kind?
There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. - Will Rogers
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Patriotism is the first refuge of a moron.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Democracy was getting old, anyway.
Precious like a mother's love....or the other kind?
There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. - Will Rogers
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Patriotism is the first refuge of a moron.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Democracy was getting old, anyway.
Zimbabwe arrests over 80 farmers
Zimbabwe police have arrested more than 80 white farmers and charged some in court for defying government orders to vacate land targeted for redistribution to landless blacks.
Justice for Agriculture (JAG) also said police and war veterans had assaulted a white farmer during his arrest on Saturday.
"Tony Smith who left his farm a month ago was severely beaten up early this morning allegedly by police and war veterans at his Chisipite home in Harare," said JAG spokeswoman Jenni Williams in a statement.
Zimbabwe police have arrested more than 80 white farmers and charged some in court for defying government orders to vacate land targeted for redistribution to landless blacks.
Justice for Agriculture (JAG) also said police and war veterans had assaulted a white farmer during his arrest on Saturday.
"Tony Smith who left his farm a month ago was severely beaten up early this morning allegedly by police and war veterans at his Chisipite home in Harare," said JAG spokeswoman Jenni Williams in a statement.
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There is land there that could have been distributed long ago but this government failed to do so. What the thug Mugabe has chosen to do instead is scapegoat the farmers, who were more than willing to work with the government in land reform, and use coercive means to stay in power by holding down the opposition. Mugabe is a dictator who has taken a country that used to export food and turned it into a basket case.
Zimbabwe's loss will be other countries gain. For example Mozambique, Zimbabwe's neighbor, is welcoming these farmers. Think about it. They know these farmers are an asset not to be thrown away and can help out their country recovering from years of war.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Zimbabwe/0 ... 50,00.html
"Many of the farms have not gone to landless blacks, but to Mugabe's confidantes." Surprise, surprise.
Zimbabwe's loss will be other countries gain. For example Mozambique, Zimbabwe's neighbor, is welcoming these farmers. Think about it. They know these farmers are an asset not to be thrown away and can help out their country recovering from years of war.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Zimbabwe/0 ... 50,00.html
"Many of the farms have not gone to landless blacks, but to Mugabe's confidantes." Surprise, surprise.
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60 minutes is doing a report on this right now
sad....very sad
"election was fatally flawed......over 7 million Zimbabawe residents currently
face starvation due to reduced food production"
sad....very sad
"election was fatally flawed......over 7 million Zimbabawe residents currently
face starvation due to reduced food production"
Hmmmm...... 2 bucks and all it does is transport matter.I'll give you 35 cents
Precious like a mother's love....or the other kind?
There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. - Will Rogers
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Patriotism is the first refuge of a moron.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Democracy was getting old, anyway.
Precious like a mother's love....or the other kind?
There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. - Will Rogers
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Patriotism is the first refuge of a moron.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Democracy was getting old, anyway.
Mrs. Mugabe joins Zimbabwe land grab
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Grace Mugabe turned up last week at John and Eva Matthews' farm north of Harare — one of at least 190 white-owned farms that are being handed over to relatives and close associates of President Robert Mugabe.
"I'm taking over this farm," declared the president's wife, surrounded by a coterie of government officials, senior army officers and young thugs from her husband's ruling party — the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, or ZANU-PF.
"We asked her what would happen to us," said one black farm worker, whose identity cannot be revealed for safety reasons. "She replied: 'Go and live by the river over there.'"
To press home the point, the police arrested 78-year-old Mr. Matthews on Saturday.
"I was told I had 48 hours to get off the farm and if they found me here after that they would lock me up straight away," Mr. Matthews said as he loaded his furniture onto the back of a truck.
This week at a Washington news conference, Walter Kansteiner, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, rejected Mr. Mugabe as the "legitimate" leader of Zimbabwe and called on Zimbabweans to "correct the situation."
The implicit call by a high American official for yet another regime change came during a meeting on food aid to drought-stricken southern Africa.
It is not hard to see why Mrs. Mugabe had her eye on the 3,000-acre Iron Mask farm.
Tucked into a valley between two dramatic hills, Iron Mask, founded by Mrs. Matthews and her first husband in 1967, is one of the most beautiful farms in the Mazowe area.
The house itself has oak-paneled interiors, sloping roofs and a commanding view. Pretty cottages on the grounds and two swimming pools add to the attraction.
It is understood that Mrs. Mugabe intends to settle her relatives on the farm.
Mr. Mugabe's land redistribution policy was meant to deliver white-owned farms into the hands of millions of landless blacks, but many of the choice properties are going instead to his friends and relatives.
A list, by no means exhaustive, has been compiled by The Washington Times from information provided by the Commercial Farmers Union and the Ministry of Lands and Agriculture, among other sources.
It shows that at least 190 senior politicians, businessmen and members of the armed forces close to Mr. Mugabe have been allocated farms. Many have been given several farms; one senior member of ZANU-PF party has been allocated seven.
Among the beneficiaries are two of Mr. Mugabe's sisters, his brother-in-law and his wife's nephew. Zimbabwe's two vice presidents, Joseph Msika and Simon Muzenda, have both been rewarded, the latter with two farms.
The outgoing and much feared head of the shadowy Central Intelligence Organization (CIO), Elisha Muzonzini has been given the farm of white opposition lawmaker Roy Bennet.
In Washington, Andrew Natsios, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, sharply criticized the reallocation of white-owned farms to Mugabe relatives.
"So they're not exactly turning these over to poor people," Mr. Natsios told reporters yesterday. "It's a disgusting grab."
During the past few days more than 150 white farmers have been arrested and detained.
They were charged with obstructing the Land Redistribution Act by ignoring an Aug. 10 deadline ordering 2,900 white farmers to leave their lands. Roadblocks have been mounted across the country to search for farmers who have slipped through the police net.
Most farmers have challenged the constitutionality of the evictions in the courts, and a landmark legal judgment last week ruled that the vast majority of the evictions are illegal.
Despite the rulings, police invaded Mr. Bennet's farm during the weekend and arrested and tortured 10 black security guards on his farm. They were taken for questioning at Mr. Muzonzini's CIO headquarters, according to the farm group Justice for Agriculture.
At least 16 of Mr. Mugabe's ministers and members of his all-powerful politburo also have been allocated land.
Others to benefit are the senior government officials in charge of distributing out the farms. Christopher Chingosho, the provincial lands chairman, has been given six.
Since February 2000, ZANU-PF youths, describing themselves as veterans from the 1970s struggle against minority rule, have violently enforced Mr. Mugabe's land-reform policies, killing 12 white farmers and many more of their black farm workers.
Setting fire to more than 10 million acres of crops and preventing cultivation on much of the rest of the farmland, they have precipitated a famine that threatens 6 million Zimbabweans, half the country's population, with starvation, aid workers say.
Up to 300,000 black farm workers have been rendered homeless.
According to pro-democracy groups, at least 30 percent of the white-owned farms were allocated to senior government officials and businessmen connected to the president.
An additional 40 percent, originally given to landless blacks, have in the past few months been turned over to Mugabe cronies.
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Grace Mugabe turned up last week at John and Eva Matthews' farm north of Harare — one of at least 190 white-owned farms that are being handed over to relatives and close associates of President Robert Mugabe.
"I'm taking over this farm," declared the president's wife, surrounded by a coterie of government officials, senior army officers and young thugs from her husband's ruling party — the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, or ZANU-PF.
"We asked her what would happen to us," said one black farm worker, whose identity cannot be revealed for safety reasons. "She replied: 'Go and live by the river over there.'"
To press home the point, the police arrested 78-year-old Mr. Matthews on Saturday.
"I was told I had 48 hours to get off the farm and if they found me here after that they would lock me up straight away," Mr. Matthews said as he loaded his furniture onto the back of a truck.
This week at a Washington news conference, Walter Kansteiner, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, rejected Mr. Mugabe as the "legitimate" leader of Zimbabwe and called on Zimbabweans to "correct the situation."
The implicit call by a high American official for yet another regime change came during a meeting on food aid to drought-stricken southern Africa.
It is not hard to see why Mrs. Mugabe had her eye on the 3,000-acre Iron Mask farm.
Tucked into a valley between two dramatic hills, Iron Mask, founded by Mrs. Matthews and her first husband in 1967, is one of the most beautiful farms in the Mazowe area.
The house itself has oak-paneled interiors, sloping roofs and a commanding view. Pretty cottages on the grounds and two swimming pools add to the attraction.
It is understood that Mrs. Mugabe intends to settle her relatives on the farm.
Mr. Mugabe's land redistribution policy was meant to deliver white-owned farms into the hands of millions of landless blacks, but many of the choice properties are going instead to his friends and relatives.
A list, by no means exhaustive, has been compiled by The Washington Times from information provided by the Commercial Farmers Union and the Ministry of Lands and Agriculture, among other sources.
It shows that at least 190 senior politicians, businessmen and members of the armed forces close to Mr. Mugabe have been allocated farms. Many have been given several farms; one senior member of ZANU-PF party has been allocated seven.
Among the beneficiaries are two of Mr. Mugabe's sisters, his brother-in-law and his wife's nephew. Zimbabwe's two vice presidents, Joseph Msika and Simon Muzenda, have both been rewarded, the latter with two farms.
The outgoing and much feared head of the shadowy Central Intelligence Organization (CIO), Elisha Muzonzini has been given the farm of white opposition lawmaker Roy Bennet.
In Washington, Andrew Natsios, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, sharply criticized the reallocation of white-owned farms to Mugabe relatives.
"So they're not exactly turning these over to poor people," Mr. Natsios told reporters yesterday. "It's a disgusting grab."
During the past few days more than 150 white farmers have been arrested and detained.
They were charged with obstructing the Land Redistribution Act by ignoring an Aug. 10 deadline ordering 2,900 white farmers to leave their lands. Roadblocks have been mounted across the country to search for farmers who have slipped through the police net.
Most farmers have challenged the constitutionality of the evictions in the courts, and a landmark legal judgment last week ruled that the vast majority of the evictions are illegal.
Despite the rulings, police invaded Mr. Bennet's farm during the weekend and arrested and tortured 10 black security guards on his farm. They were taken for questioning at Mr. Muzonzini's CIO headquarters, according to the farm group Justice for Agriculture.
At least 16 of Mr. Mugabe's ministers and members of his all-powerful politburo also have been allocated land.
Others to benefit are the senior government officials in charge of distributing out the farms. Christopher Chingosho, the provincial lands chairman, has been given six.
Since February 2000, ZANU-PF youths, describing themselves as veterans from the 1970s struggle against minority rule, have violently enforced Mr. Mugabe's land-reform policies, killing 12 white farmers and many more of their black farm workers.
Setting fire to more than 10 million acres of crops and preventing cultivation on much of the rest of the farmland, they have precipitated a famine that threatens 6 million Zimbabweans, half the country's population, with starvation, aid workers say.
Up to 300,000 black farm workers have been rendered homeless.
According to pro-democracy groups, at least 30 percent of the white-owned farms were allocated to senior government officials and businessmen connected to the president.
An additional 40 percent, originally given to landless blacks, have in the past few months been turned over to Mugabe cronies.
playing the race card
Zimbabwe: U.S. threats against Mugabe 'racist'
HARARE, Zimbabwe (Reuters) -- Zimbabwe accused the United States and Britain Wednesday of a "racist" campaign to isolate Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe internationally and maintain white economic dominance in southern Africa.
The United States said Tuesday it did not consider Mugabe, who won a controversial election in March, a legitimate leader and was working with governments in the region to isolate him.
"The legitimacy of our political system or our president is not dependent on America, Britain or any other country, but on Zimbabweans," a senior Zimbabwean foreign affairs official said.
"The bullying tactics that America and Britain are using against us are meant to frustrate our quest for social and economic justice, to stop our program to redistribute some of the very large tracts of land held by whites here to the indigenous black people," he told Reuters.
Meanwhile neighboring Mozambique welcomes white farmers
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- White landowners who had been evicted from their farms in Zimbabwe were welcome to farm in neighbouring Mozambique, the government said Sunday.
"We have a law on investment," Mozambican Foreign Minister Leonardo Simao told state television. "If someone wants to come here and invest and respects our investment laws, he is welcome. Be he or she white, black, yellow, green -- if it is possible -- he is welcome."
HARARE, Zimbabwe (Reuters) -- Zimbabwe accused the United States and Britain Wednesday of a "racist" campaign to isolate Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe internationally and maintain white economic dominance in southern Africa.
The United States said Tuesday it did not consider Mugabe, who won a controversial election in March, a legitimate leader and was working with governments in the region to isolate him.
"The legitimacy of our political system or our president is not dependent on America, Britain or any other country, but on Zimbabweans," a senior Zimbabwean foreign affairs official said.
"The bullying tactics that America and Britain are using against us are meant to frustrate our quest for social and economic justice, to stop our program to redistribute some of the very large tracts of land held by whites here to the indigenous black people," he told Reuters.
Meanwhile neighboring Mozambique welcomes white farmers
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- White landowners who had been evicted from their farms in Zimbabwe were welcome to farm in neighbouring Mozambique, the government said Sunday.
"We have a law on investment," Mozambican Foreign Minister Leonardo Simao told state television. "If someone wants to come here and invest and respects our investment laws, he is welcome. Be he or she white, black, yellow, green -- if it is possible -- he is welcome."
another African country offers land
<A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/h ... 240813.stm" target="_new" title="Land offer to Zimbabwe's whites">Land offer to Zimbabwe's whites</a>
White Zimbabwean farmers suffering from President Mugabe's policy of land seizure have been offered a lifeline by a fellow African country, the Central African Republic.
Not only would the farmers be given a safe haven but their presence would help the Central African Republic develop and improve its agriculture, the government says.
Prime Minister Martin Ziguele told Anita McNaught on BBC's HARDtalk: "We will offer them land."
White Zimbabwean farmers suffering from President Mugabe's policy of land seizure have been offered a lifeline by a fellow African country, the Central African Republic.
Not only would the farmers be given a safe haven but their presence would help the Central African Republic develop and improve its agriculture, the government says.
Prime Minister Martin Ziguele told Anita McNaught on BBC's HARDtalk: "We will offer them land."
Food Shortages Worsen in Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Food shortages in Zimbabwe have markedly worsened, causing massive profiteering, political interference in distribution and forcing the hungry to survive on wild fruits and roots, relief agencies said Saturday.
An estimated 6.7 million Zimbabweans, more than half the population, are in danger of starvation in the coming months because of food shortages blamed on drought and the government's chaotic program to seize thousands of white-owned commercial farms for redistribution to black settlers.
On Wednesday, a Danish human rights group accused the government of withholding food from opposition supporters, interfering with distribution of international aid and prolonging the nation's grain shortage to protect its power.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Food shortages in Zimbabwe have markedly worsened, causing massive profiteering, political interference in distribution and forcing the hungry to survive on wild fruits and roots, relief agencies said Saturday.
An estimated 6.7 million Zimbabweans, more than half the population, are in danger of starvation in the coming months because of food shortages blamed on drought and the government's chaotic program to seize thousands of white-owned commercial farms for redistribution to black settlers.
On Wednesday, a Danish human rights group accused the government of withholding food from opposition supporters, interfering with distribution of international aid and prolonging the nation's grain shortage to protect its power.