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| Mugabe: Zim land reform will spare some white farmers |
| 2009-07-10 |
| [Mail and Globe] Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Thursday said some white farmers would be spared under his controversial land reforms, and urged Britain to compensate owners of property seized for redistribution. "It's not every white farm which will be taken. Not necessarily," Mugabe said in reply to the leader of the predominantly white Commercial Farmers' Union (CFU) at a conference to lure investors. "The responsibility of compensation rests on the shoulders of the British government and its allies," he said. "We pay compensation for developments and improvements. That's our obligation and we have honoured that. Above all Zimbabwe upholds the sanctity of property rights. "Sure there must be some compensation. Let's join hands and appeal to the British." The land reforms, launched in 2000, aimed to resettle black Zimbabweans on 4 000 white-owned commercial farms, but the process was marred by politically charged violence. The scheme has drastically reduced agricultural production, which once accounted for 40% of the economy, as most of its beneficiaries lacked both farming equipment and expertise. Mugabe's statements came as the CFU reported fresh invasions of white-owned farms. He accused the farmers of taking sides with the British, whose relations with Zimbabwe were strained over the land reforms launched ostensibly to redress historical land imbalances. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 There is a Shumba in my fridge for you, B, and sherry for the ladies the day I hear that b@stard is dead! Skal! |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2009-07-10 21:58 |
| #12 Unfortunately, meneer, I am not permitted to tell you very much else. |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2009-07-10 21:30 |
| #11 Smith was dead right but no one would listen. Extending my sundowner with a G&T salute to both you and him! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-07-10 21:28 |
| #10 Besoker, we, I think, must regard all that as lost. Some Tomahawks from off the coast of Mocambique a few years ago, as I recommended, would have had this sorted. Lack of strategy/ VERY short-term thinking. |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2009-07-10 21:20 |
| #9 Whahahhaah RF. If I were a farm owner here in the US, driving those evil, poloooting, carbon creating John Deere monsters around, I'd be a little concerned about now. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-07-10 21:08 |
| #8 Oops, that was a bit strong, ladies, avert your eyes! |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2009-07-10 21:06 |
| #7 Does anyone hear the voices of Andrew Young, Jimmah Carter, Lady Thatcher? Anything at all from the Lancaster House crowd? .... I thought not. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-07-10 21:04 |
| #6 Bob, you should have been strung up many years ago, how can you talk of compensation for theft? And then the question of maintenance of (and/or) improvements, where the Cholera Epidemic indicates you have sadly failed, or, the attitude, if it is already broken, chaya it some more with a big hammer and break it some more. Bob, I'm a china, listen to me, go f©k yourself. |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2009-07-10 20:59 |
| #5 Caught in his own lies, a couple of years ago he proudly announced that there were NO white farmers. (Left alive) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-07-10 13:49 |
| #4 Yeah, if you're a white farmer in Zimbabwe and ya can't trust Bob, who can you trust? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-07-10 12:03 |
| #3 But the rest of ya, yur fuhked. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-07-10 11:50 |
| #2 Mugabe's statements came as the CFU reported fresh invasions of white-owned farms. And to think, all of this without the help of Barry, Rahm, Geithner, Fannie and Freddie....or at last as far as we know. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-07-10 07:37 |
| #1 Well Bob, that's uh really...um white of you. |
| Posted by: WTF 2009-07-10 07:34 |