Petty thinking like yours leads to consequences akin to the Rwandan genocide.

Very selfish and childish indeed.

Peace.

WE were also aware that one of the major functions of the whites only CFU was to ensure that its mebers only sold land to other whites and NEVER to blacks.I was a witness to that myself.So black graduates from Zim’s agricultural colleges could never own land…but they could only work for some white master…thank God for the land redistribution process.The notion that all the farms went to Mugabe’s cronies is just the BBC’s propaganda and crap. I come from an area were ordinary villagers were moved onto a formerly “white farm”. Its a region that is famous for NOT supporting Mugabe…but we were still included in the land reform process.

In time Zim will return to being the bread basket of the region, but this time with its own indeginous farmers. The “white leash” by which Britain controlled food production in Zim and thus controlled the entire region has been cut.Did you really think we were dumb enough not to see their intention?
Free at last,free at last, thank God almighty for we are free at last…

I guess the point is Rhodesians will always belong to their Rhodesia wherever it is now and Zimbabweans will belong to Zimbabwe…like oil and water we should never try to come mix again…that would be disastrous.

Come on Mwana – the Shona’s were handed a perectly functioning economic system on a plate during the last 30 yrs and have reduced it to abject ruin.

“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”

Anyhow, it is not my intention to fuel further argument and luckily I have no need to. Time will tell – as it always does. I would be surprised (pleasantly so) if I were shown up to be wrong, and you right, in the next 30yrs or so.

The fact that you can be proud of current zimbabwean agriculture says a lot…So you are proud of the fact that Zimbabwe has gone from being the bread basket of Africa with hundreds of very productive and efficient farms which fed the nation and brought in large amounts of foreign currency, to a system where most farms are derelict, causing widespread food shortages and a crippled economy?!!
This sort of shocking rhetoric which you are spouting and comes from the racist ideologies of Mugabe, is exactly the reason why Zimbabwe is in the mess it is in now. No one is calling for re-colonisation but why the need to destroy the country’s formerly succesfful agriculture and industrial sectors? It’s absolute madness and helps no one apart from the political elite, whilst bringing untold misery on all citizens whether black or white.

The idea that black zimbabweans want their farming sector and industry ‘back’ is ridiculous – they never had it in the first place. No one is saying black ownership is wrong, in fact it’s very good, but these policies forcing these things to happen achieve nothing apart from more problems, further undermining a formerly vibrant economy and giving power and money to the political elite.

Now the Shonas in Zimbabwe have had 30 years of freedom (yes from the same Brits)and they have wisely spent much of that time laying a foundation for the economic development of their country. We know that they now have one of the highest literacy rates in the developing world, world class schools and universities, they are well on their way to a world class health system (despite the British induced economic setbacks of the last few yrs)and this I am particularly proud of…an agricultural system that is now based on indegenous farmers rather foreign Brits posing as Zimbabweans.
The Shonas have done all this and a lot more in only 30yrs, without colonising and oppressing anyone or stealing and looting anybody’s land. They are thus a pretty impressive people if you ask me…

As for your assertion that the Brits “leave a place better than they found it…” gimme a break. If they are such good people then why do they always have to be kicked out in such embarrasing ways, sometimes with guns…from America, from Hong Kong, from India, from numerous African countries…nobody wants ‘em and yet they continue to walk with their noses in the air…pretty amusing.

“..which it now cannot support without external aid”…well as Mugabe said “Keep your money”. Why are you people so concerned and angry that there is now Chinese money running all the way from Cape Town to Cairo. Even better the Chinese are being very carefull not to make the same mistakes the European racists did in Africa.

Why should it even bother you whether or not we can support ourselves. All you have to do is KEEP YOUR MONEY. You had your chance in Africa, you ruined it by your arrogance and racist tendencies, now GO TO HELL.

The fact is that the days of some English Lord or God or whatever, bragging about how many gold mines he owns in Zimbabwe or about the 20 000hectares of land carrying a 5 000 herd or hereford beef in Zimbabwe or the 200 people working for him in Zimbabwe ARE GONE..AND GONE FOREVER…LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT.

Moreover the Brits manage to be moderately wealthy – all 60m them – on 290000sq kms. But you guys can’t even eke a living above poverty level for 13m people spread over 390000sq kms of “valuable minerals, the best soils on the continent, lots of water, lush green fields, fantastic climate”.

Shame on you.

Yup, we get the picture – Zimbabwe has 390,757 km2 and a population of 12 million – which it now cannot support without external aid. Using rose-tinted spectacles as a cure for your myiopia is not a recommended cure.

Toderai, you took the farms and destroyed them, you took functioning transport, legal, education and health systems and destroyed them, you took a jewel of independent Africa and turned it into a basket case. You took the bright hopes of a nation and rubbed it out by your racism and greed, forcing 5 million people to become refugees. Never in our country’s history has so much misery been created by so few.

You still don’t get it, do you? – hate and anger doesn’t work, just as stealing functioning farms and well run businesses for yourself doesn’t work. Try BUILDING something of your OWN for a change, instead of trying to steal and break down what previous generations have built up through hard sweat and effort.

The following a article by CHAKWANDA MANGEPA,Published in http://www.zimdaily.com on 18 February 2010, shows the reality…

“HARARE – Beneficiaries of the chaotic land reform programme have confessed
that their participation in the land grab exercise was a result of greed to
merely snatch the farm houses from the white community and not to till the
land, the assertion that has thrown damper to the perceived enrichment
exercise of the murderous ZANU PF party.

According to a ZBC Newsnet reporter who had been pursuing reportage of the
chaotic exercise since its inception, most resettled farmers who are now
standing helpless staring at bushes of grasses have revealed their souls
saying that they were driven by spite to prejudice the able white community
from their farms, the development that drew Zimbabwe into poverty.

“Most farmers are confessing that what they needed were farm houses and not
vast swathes of land, which implied slavery for them.

That is the very reason why there is no productivity on the farms,” said the
reporter.

When the land reform programme was introduced in the 1980s, the intention
was address the perceived anomalies in the distribution of land wherein most
blacks were allegedly occupying unproductive land while the whites had rich
soils. “

The fact is this: we have 390 000sq kms for less than our 13m people. Its full of valuable minerals, the best soils on the continent, lots of water, lush green fields, fantastic climate ect..Great Britain (so called) has less than 290 000sq kms for more than 60m people. Other than coal,North Sea oil and an industry that is sustained by foreign natural resources, what else do they have…oh an ugly queen.
Israel has only 23 000sq kms for over 8mi people and we all know how explosive that situation is.
Germany has 350 000sq kms for over 80mi people.

Do you guys get the picture here? We have a gem of a country and is it any wonder that the British would want it for themselves. If we are not careful we will end up as the Palestinians of Africa.I too am angry at Mugabe’s delay at setting a clear succession path, but Tsvangirai… NO WAY. That myopic fool would turn us into a British banana republic within a month. Thats the only reason the British fund and support him.

Quoting tonderayiCome on, what happened to your history, we need our economy back, that is, Land, Industry and what ever, ofcourse if foreigners what to invest in our country fine, joint ventures with zimbabweans , period.

You need reminding that it WAS foreigners who originally invested in the country, leading to the development of a modern economic system. What economy, otherwise, do you want back – Goat trading?

“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money” –Margaret Thatcher.

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” ~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931.