Effjay…..You just don’t get it do you. You fail to grasp the history of the country and the part Britain played in it.
As David said, could your foreigners do a better job than the origional commercial farmers….I very much doubt it and as far as nationalising farms…well we have seen how successful that has been. I’m sure that your suggestions would go down well if applied to your own farmers.
Read the history and understand it from a practical point of view.

I thought we stopped the ability for more money to be printed?

Funny that – Rhodesia went through two world wars, and then the war of liberation with its associated sanctions, but nothing, nothing has ever been as devastating as Mugabe.

There must be a hall of honour for the most dispicable, disasterous, devious, dangerous, despotic, demonised, demagogue that ever walked the planet – ‘cos, his snivelling portrait deserves place of honour at the right hand of the devil.

Couldn’t have said it more succintly. Ever falling on deaf ears though.

Leading elites know what they want in Africa. Exploitation of the masses.

And the rest of us are stunned and fascinated at this so called ‘educated leadership’ which in essence is kelptocratic idiocy.

Where conscience is akin to treason.

EffJay’s comments show how little understanding the rest of the world has about Zimbabwe.

Britain handed power to Mugabe together with the perfect tools of dictatorship i.e. a raft of oppressive legislation and total state control of the mass media.

Britain feted Mugabe for years after independence, awarding him honorary degrees and ignoring his masss murders of the 1980’s.

Britain for years refused to grant asylum to many opposition supporters, sending them back to their doom in Zim.

Finally, Britain refuses to pay pensions to British-origin people who remained as civil servants in the ex-colony helping it to develop intoi the envy of the rest of Africa.

The last thing Zim needs is more inept and misguided meddling by British people, thank you.

Let me ask EffJay this question: why do you think it’s OK to get foreigners to work the farms? The farms were incredibly productive under the previous legitimate white African owners. After being chucked out by Mugabe, those same farmers are now helping produce food and cash crops in Zambia, Mozambique and Nigeria. Agriculture in Zim could be back on its feet within 6 months if any new government simply allows the previous farmers to return, even if for political reasons it simply leases rather than returns the land to them.

How could the breadbasket of Africa have deteriorated to this? The answer is Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF. By his actions he has compiled something of a ‘how to’ manual for national destruction. Although some of his methods have been applied elsewhere, taken as a whole, his approach has been more radical and more comprehensive than that of any other despot. But Zimbabwe offers some important insights; it illustrates the prime importance of accountability as an anecdote to idiocy and excess. It highlights the lasting effects of decolonisation – limited Western influence on a continent coupled with a continued reluctance by African leaders to criticize their own. And, above all, it offers a warning about how much damage one man can do, very quickly.