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

Very selfish and childish indeed.

This leadership is a pathetic disgrace.

Peace.

I was a teenager in Rhodesia and carried ammunition in the liberation war from 1776 to 1980. My father was a prison officer. My brother who passed away in December was in the liberation war carrying his gun from 1974 to end of the war. He died a pauper and all the clothes he wore were donated by family members because the country was down.

The reason this happened is we forgot basic principles of business. Successful businesses even state owned enterprises survive due to the type of leadership driving those businesses. Business leaders are not found everywhere like sand. Imposing controlling interests on a business to black Zimbabweans who are not business leaders themselves will simply lead to what happened at the Cold Storage Commission, ZISCO, ARDA, Mhangura and everything ZMDC touched, Education, Health, Defence, Roads Dept, Air Zimbabwe, NRZ, ZESA, DDF and the list is endless. I saw these companies as well oiled organisations in Rhodesia but saw them collapsing due to incompetent and in some cases corrupt BLACK leadership in Zimbabwe.

Competent blacks have on the other hand produced world class giants like Econet Holdings without the need to have an Act like this one. I could go on but before I finish some points on specific points in the ACT.

1. Too much power has been left to the Minister
2. The person who crafted the law has no clue what 90 days will do in business. You can not give a minister 45 days and another 45 days to be THINKING about possible deals. Markets never allow anyone such centuries to decide making a deal.They need to be schooled in the sense of time in the business world.
3.The Act surely would not survive any scrutiny around discrimination.
4. The law is a fast track to taking Zimbabwe out of the business community on the international scene and should be sent back for rewriting with the same intention but with business leaders involved.

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.

Only a lunatic or a compulsive gambler would invest a single dollar in Zimbabwe.

It will be interesting to see if any Chinese investors end up in jail.

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.