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| ZimBob charges two white farmers, orders 50 others to leave |
| 2006-10-01 |
| President Robert Mugabe’s government will next week prosecute two white farmers for defying orders to vacate their farms while it has also ordered another 50 white landowners across the country to surrender their properties, a top official of the white Commercial Farmers Union said. Only about 600 out of an estimated 4 000 large-scale producing white commercial farmers remain in Zimbabwe after Mugabe drove the majority off the land and gave their farms to landless blacks in a chaotic and often violent campaign he said was meant to correct racial imbalances in land ownership. CFU vice-president Trevor Gifford declined to disclose the names of the two farmers but said they will next Tuesday appear in the magistrate’s court in the farming town of Karoi in Mashonaland West province. Gifford said: "Two farmers have been issued with summons to appear in court on Tuesday at 8am. They are being accused of ignoring eviction notices that were served on them. “But the tragedy is that the two are some of the best in tobacco and cereals. One of them had just delivered 1 000 tonnes of maize to the Grain Marketing Board (sole grain procurer owned by the State) and now he is going to be prosecuted for doing that." |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #13 Hell, get real Besorker, Cecil should have used the more lethal variety of small-pox, (and wrapped the corpses in pig-blankets), then declared a free-fire zone and nuked it with naplam. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-10-01 19:21 |
| #12 If Bob took my farm, I doubt that anything would grow in the soil any time soon. None of the equipment would ever work again either. Any the farmhouse might not be habitable either. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2006-10-01 22:01 |
| #11 sorry - I should STFU and not assume. I'ma tired of pig-lard/pig blanket etc. too........ |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-01 20:07 |
| #10 sarcasm.... do you need the /sarcasm tag or are you new here? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-01 20:00 |
| #9 What's with the pig blanket theme????? MORE lard coming out of the net to coat my pc. Sheesh. |
| Posted by: ack! 2006-10-01 19:51 |
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| Posted by: 6 2006-10-01 19:21 |
| #7 I blame Cecil Rhodes. He should have seen all of this coming and taken appropriate action. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-10-01 18:44 |
| #6 Guilty of engaging in modern agronomic practices, no doubt. And one of them is rumored to have a daughter who is a thespian! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-10-01 10:31 |
| #5 what did the farmers do? actually get something too grow. |
| Posted by: sinse 2006-10-01 10:08 |
| #4 Mugabe. What a genius. If I were him, and I'm not fortunately, I would be asking "What went wrong?" |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-10-01 02:45 |
| #3 "Not satisfied with the level of hunger in his country, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe took steps today to deepen the famine. 'We look forward to the day there is not a stalk of wheat to be found anywhere in the country,' a spokesman said. 'Only then will the era of colonial exploitation by nutrition truly be over. Through starvation, Africa will finally be free.'" |
| Posted by: Baba Tutu 2006-10-01 02:09 |
| #2 Thats right Bob, end it all now so you can "reform" it all on your own. How bout we call it the great Mugabe Genocide? |
| Posted by: newc 2006-10-01 00:34 |
| #1 I suppose they should be thankful that Zimbabwe has yet to revert back to the level of Jomo Kenyatta's Mau Mau's, although if food production continues to fall that's next. |
| Posted by: RWV 2006-10-01 00:19 |