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Africa: Subsaharan
Zim 'to take all white farms'
2004-12-15
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party's central committee apparently has decided to confiscate all remaining farms still owned by white farmers, reported the Zimbabwean website, Zimonline, on Monday. About 500 farms out of the initial 4,500 are still in white hands.
And we can't have that, can we?
The first farm to fall prey to this decision is that of well-known cricketer Dennis Streak, father of Heath, the former cricket captain. This decision, which is discussed in a secret report of the Zanu-PF's central committee, clashes with a statement by President Robert Mugabe and his cabinet that the land-reform process in Zimbabwe has been completed. The report reads: "The resolution, which sources in the party's inner circles believe will definitely be implemented in the next couple of months, will mean the 500 white farmers who have managed to retain their land until now will definitely lose it."
Posted by:Steve

#8  Salt the fields, blow up the wells, destroy the equipment, and burn the buildings on your way out. Leave nothing behind that is usable.
Posted by: Lilly   2004-12-15 8:44:56 PM  

#7  Huck: What happened to the bank Jim?
Jim: Well Huck, that bank went bust.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-12-15 5:27:50 PM  

#6  They've also been confiscating farms from blacks who were settled on farms that were originally confiscated from whites.
All your farms are belong to us!
Posted by: Spot   2004-12-15 5:25:24 PM  

#5  You'll never see me starving, honkies...
Posted by: Bob Mugabe   2004-12-15 4:50:20 PM  

#4  I guess it's ok for fat white people to work on a farm, but owning a farm is something else.
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2004-12-15 3:10:01 PM  

#3  AESOP FABLE -- WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny. (And sheep are deeply offended by the violence inherent in non-P.C. fables.)
Posted by: Anonymoose   2004-12-15 3:03:13 PM  

#2  Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party's central committee apparently has decided to confiscate all remaining farms still owned by white farmers, reported the Zimbabwean website, Zimonline, on Monday.

Nope, no racism here...
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-12-15 2:56:33 PM  

#1  Good luck with that famine, guys. Shall we go ahead and put you down for a few hundred thousand pounds of relief grain?
Posted by: BH   2004-12-15 2:20:54 PM  

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