From: "zakanaka" <lalapansi@yahoo.com>
Cathy Buckle writes:
Dear Family and Friends,
As an ex farmer I find myself spinning around in dizzy circles trying
to keep up with all the pronouncements and announcements by the
Zimbabwean government on land. As a farmer first I was told that the
government didn't want our farm.
Then I was told by a bunch of loud and angry men armed with half
bricks and sticks who came to the gate that we had to share the farm
with them. After seven months of doing so the men decided that sharing
wasn't good enough and that we should get out of the house because
they wanted that too. Their words were not backed up with any
government paperwork or orders but when the Police said they
wouldn't remove the trespassers because "it is political", there was
no option but to leave. Later the government said that any farmers
still brave enough to be on their farms should downsize and that all
farms would have a maximum hectarage. Then the government changed
their mind again and said that they were going to take even more
farms. What started out as one million hectares became 5 and then 11
million hectares. Now they've changed their mind again.
Zimbabwe made international news this week with the announcement by
Minister John Nkomo that all land is to be nationalized. Title Deeds
are to be made null and void and the State will issue 99 year leases
for agricultural land and 25 year leases for conservancies. Minister
Nkomo said that the government did not intend to "waste time and
money" on disputes with people who had Title Deeds, Court Orders and
other legal documents which confirmed that they were in fact the legal
owners of the land.
What didn't make international news was the Acquisition of Farm
Equipment and Materials Bill. Despite the fact that the Parliamentary
Legal Committee unanimously declared 5 clauses of the Bill
unconstitutional and despite the fact that all opposition MP's walked
out of the House in protest when it came to the vote, the Bill was
passed by Zimbabwe's parliament this week. This Bill now allows the
State to compulsorily acquire farm equipment and materials and
forbids farmers from selling, dismantling, removing or destroying
their own private property. This includes tractors, ploughs,
irrigation equipment, machinery, seed and fertilizer.
When our farm was seized by arbitrary men at the gate, the government
said they were taking back land that had been stolen from them 100
years ago. When the arbitrary men moved into and took over our private
house, dairy, barns, workers homes and the farm shop, the government
said nothing, paid nothing and did nothing and the police said it was
political. It wasn't just bricks they seized, it was fully functional
and completely equipped buildings with windows, doors, roofing, water
tanks and geysers, electrical fittings, fencing and security systems.
Now apparently anything left on, or taken off that farm that the
Zimbabwe government classifies as agricultural equipment or material,
also belongs to the State. The mind just boggles at where this highway
robbery and blatant disregard of people's private property rights will
end and who or what will be next. Perhaps the shirt off my back, I did
wear it when I was a farmer; or what about my computer - I used that
to do the farm accounts and work out how much tax I had to pay the
Zimbabwe government when I was a farmer. The parallels with Jews in
Nazi Germany 60 years ago are chillingly familiar. Love cathy.
Copyright cathy buckle 12th June 2004.
http://africantears.netfirms.com
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12 Jun 2004 12:22:05 PM |
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"Grantland" <mithril@iafrica.com> wrote in message news:40cb34a0.168805829@ct-news.iafrica.com...
From: "zakanaka" <lalapansi@yahoo.com>
Cathy Buckle writes:
Dear Family and Friends,
As an ex farmer I find myself spinning around in dizzy circles trying
to keep up with all the pronouncements and announcements by the
Zimbabwean government on land. As a farmer first I was told that the
government didn't want our farm.
Then I was told by a bunch of loud and angry men armed with half
bricks and sticks who came to the gate that we had to share the farm
with them. After seven months of doing so the men decided that sharing
wasn't good enough and that we should get out of the house because
they wanted that too. Their words were not backed up with any
government paperwork or orders but when the Police said they
wouldn't remove the trespassers because "it is political", there was
no option but to leave. Later the government said that any farmers
still brave enough to be on their farms should downsize and that all
farms would have a maximum hectarage. Then the government changed
their mind again and said that they were going to take even more
farms. What started out as one million hectares became 5 and then 11
million hectares. Now they've changed their mind again.
Zimbabwe made international news this week with the announcement by
Minister John Nkomo that all land is to be nationalized. Title Deeds
are to be made null and void and the State will issue 99 year leases
for agricultural land and 25 year leases for conservancies. Minister
Nkomo said that the government did not intend to "waste time and
money" on disputes with people who had Title Deeds, Court Orders and
other legal documents which confirmed that they were in fact the legal
owners of the land.
What didn't make international news was the Acquisition of Farm
Equipment and Materials Bill. Despite the fact that the Parliamentary
Legal Committee unanimously declared 5 clauses of the Bill
unconstitutional and despite the fact that all opposition MP's walked
out of the House in protest when it came to the vote, the Bill was
passed by Zimbabwe's parliament this week. This Bill now allows the
State to compulsorily acquire farm equipment and materials and
forbids farmers from selling, dismantling, removing or destroying
their own private property. This includes tractors, ploughs,
irrigation equipment, machinery, seed and fertilizer.
When our farm was seized by arbitrary men at the gate, the government
said they were taking back land that had been stolen from them 100
years ago. When the arbitrary men moved into and took over our private
house, dairy, barns, workers homes and the farm shop, the government
said nothing, paid nothing and did nothing and the police said it was
political. It wasn't just bricks they seized, it was fully functional
and completely equipped buildings with windows, doors, roofing, water
tanks and geysers, electrical fittings, fencing and security systems.
Now apparently anything left on, or taken off that farm that the
Zimbabwe government classifies as agricultural equipment or material,
also belongs to the State. The mind just boggles at where this highway
robbery and blatant disregard of people's private property rights will
end and who or what will be next. Perhaps the shirt off my back, I did
wear it when I was a farmer; or what about my computer - I used that
to do the farm accounts and work out how much tax I had to pay the
Zimbabwe government when I was a farmer. The parallels with Jews in
Nazi Germany 60 years ago are chillingly familiar. Love cathy.
Copyright cathy buckle 12th June 2004.
http://africantears.netfirms.com
What goes around comes around. The whites are getting what they deserve. Deal with it Monkey Boy.
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14 Jun 2004 03:51:59 AM |
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"dreamwalker" <backfromthe@dead.net> wrote in message
news:e28c7$40cb3bc2$4076284e$20805@powerweb.allthenewsgroups.com...
What goes around comes around. The whites are getting what they deserve.
You are as racist as Grantland, as well as being a liar.
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| User: "Grantland" |
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13 Jun 2004 01:50:05 AM |
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"dungwalker" <backfromthe@dead.head> gloated, Jewishly:
Zimbabwe government when I was a farmer. The parallels with Jews in
Nazi Germany 60 years ago are chillingly familiar. Love cathy.
Copyright cathy buckle 12th June 2004.
http://africantears.netfirms.com
What goes around comes around. The whites are getting what they deserve. Deal with it Monkey Boy.
From: "zakanaka" <lalapansi@yahoo.com>
The Zimbabwe Independent, 11 June 2004
ERIC BLOCH
Obdurate disregard for realities
THE government is so driven by its anxiety to win the next
parliamentary election and to eclipse its arch-enemy the Movement for
Democratic Change that it has such a fixation as to its perceived
causes of Zimbabwe's economic traumas - as distinct from the actual
causes - that the country's economic decline is a continuing one.
Tragically, there are not only no signs that the government is willing
to recognise that the realities of Zimbabwe's economic morass are
markedly at variance to its perceptions, but there are also recurrent
and clear indications that the government is wholly unconcerned at any
negative effects its policies and actions have upon the economy.
So great is the governmental disregard for the facts of Zimbabwe's
deplorable economic circumstances, that it actually progressively
worsens those circumstances. Even the very admirable and diligent
efforts of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono cannot
counter the deleterious repercussions of the government's economic
acts of omission and commission.
As sound as most, but not all, of Gono's monetary policies are, they
can only slow down the economic decline, instead of reversing it, in
the absence of compatible and complementary fiscal policies and
political actions. Regrettably, there is no evidence of any such
compatibility, while there is untold evidence of incompatibility.
This is not a new condition, but has prevailed since 1997 when the
government embarked upon its foolhardy and catastrophically disastrous
land reform programme and upon its economically unsustainable
compensation for war veterans and ex-combatants (real and pseudo).
The government continued to do so by its economically devastating
military foray in the Democratic (sic) Republic of the Congo (DRC),
which allegedly brought peace to that troubled country, but where
there are frequently repeated conflicts between state and rebels. The
militaristic actions resulted in massive expropriation of the DRC's
mineral and other wealth.
The government's politically driven, and ideologically misguided,
policies which have contributed to the stressed conditions of the
Zimbabwean economy also included ruinous price controls and spurious
valuation of the Zimbabwe dollar.
This has also seen the alienation of most of the international
community, including donor states, the International Monetary Fund,
the World Bank, potential foreign direct investors and many others,
and contemptuous dismissal of any statistics and other facts which
were at variance with its real, or politically required perceptions.
In the past week there have been increasing indications that the
government is seriously considering reinstating price controls which
will either be all-embracing or, at the least, will be applied to all
basic consumer products, with especial emphasis upon foodstuffs. In
doing so, it will be yielding to the pressures and demands of
consumers in general, and the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe in
particular.
It cannot be denied that the immense inflation of recent years has had
devastating effects upon most of the populace. Most have been reduced
to extreme poverty, unable to afford many of the basic essentials of
life, and are suffering intensely.
In such circumstances, it is natural that the distressed seek someone
to blame, and inevitably blame is placed almost exclusively at the
feet of the government - where, in fact, such blame should lie. The
government cannot but be conscious that it is, or will be, held
culpable for the destitution which confronts so many, and it fears
that as a result it will lose much electoral support.
The president and his minions are determined not to lose the votes of
the oppressed consumers but, instead of addressing the root causes of
hyperinflation, they repeatedly resort to ineffectual palliatives and
to attribution of blame to others. One of those palliatives is the
application of price controls.
The tragedy is that the government is unable to learn from experience.
Not only in Zimbabwe but in many other countries, price controls have
been near or total failures. Even when they worked in part, the
concomitant effects upon the economy have been deplorable in the
extreme.
The consequences of price controls are invariably that producers
discontinue production, or considerably reduce production levels,
occasioning vast shortages that create new stresses and hardships for
the consumer. Such limited quantities as are available are invariably
purchased by black marketers who then sell the commodities to the
desperate consumer at prices well above the controlled prices.
Thus price controls very often are the cause of increased inflation,
instead of targeted reductions. In many other instances, in endeavours
to preserve operational viability, producers lower product quality so
as to minimise costs. Yet again, the consumer suffers.
Price controls have, in many instances, forced business closures, with
resultant increased unemployment and loss of downstream economic
spending and activity. They have also been a major deterrent to
investment, for few are desirous of investment in an overly regulated
economy.
Thus not only are the intended benefits not forthcoming, but the
associated economic prejudicial effects are considerable. The only
price controls that are effectual for any reasonable period of time
are those implemented on a reciprocal basis by the government, labour
and the private sector under a negotiated social contract.
The consumer is helped by the government when the catalysts of
inflation are addressed, and not by price regulation. And the consumer
is assisted by governmentally stimulated competition for, when
competition exists, producers are forced to enhance production
efficiencies and expenditure controls in order to be
price-competitive.
But the government has demonstrated over 24 years an infinitely great
ability to disregard these proven facts. Its interest is short term,
being to garner votes for the next election, and it resorts to
whatsoever measures it believes will realise that objective,
irrespective of the medium and long-term adverse consequences.
Its attitude is to gain votes, no matter how adverse the effect of its
actions may be, and that after winning the election, it can then try
to reverse the ill effects or, if they be irreversible, can then blame
others. Re-imposition of price controls will be catastrophic, will
have cataclonically harmful effects upon the population and upon the
economy, and therefore it can virtually be taken for granted that the
government will apply them.
The government is equally adept at challenging any statistics as do
not support its policies or its actions, or at misconstruing and
misinterpreting those statistics. When, very recently, the Central
Statistical Office issued statistics demonstrating a significant fall
in Zimbabwean exports, the government immediately claimed that the
statistics were incorrect.
But commerce and industry, economists, the independent media and many
of the population are aware that exports have fallen substantially.
This year's tobacco crop is much less than produced at any time in the
last 50 or more years, thanks to the government's destruction of
agriculture.
Mining output has fallen sharply, as costs have risen but revenues
have not increased in tandem to the cost escalations. Manufactured
exports have also been substantially reduced, for exporters have been
unable to meet continuously rising wages, electricity charges, finance
costs and other production and overhead expenses, while the rates of
exchange keep their revenues almost static.
They are forced to subsidise the government by a mandatory sale of
part of their export proceeds at a ludicrous rate of exchange of $824
to US$1, whereas purchasing power parity with Zimbabwe's principal
trading partners requires an effective rate of exchange of about $6
000 to US$1.
But the government deludes itself and uses the full force of its
propaganda resources to pretend that Zimbabwe has an increasing export
performance. Only the naïve believe that propaganda, but the
government realises that many voters are naïve. Unfortunately, by
denying the statistics, the government also does nothing to address
the crisis that those statistics reflect.
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13 Jun 2004 02:12:46 AM |
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Grantland a écrit:
"dungwalker" <backfromthe@dead.head> gloated, Jewishly:
Hahaha gee you are despicable...
Zimbabwe government when I was a farmer. The parallels with Jews in
Nazi Germany 60 years ago are chillingly familiar. Love cathy.
Copyright cathy buckle 12th June 2004.
http://africantears.netfirms.com
What goes around comes around. The whites are getting what they deserve. Deal with it Monkey Boy.
The problem with Dreamwalker is that he infers that the whites are like you,
which is totally false and crazy. I can picture you very well sitting arrogantly
on a horse with the red white and black three branch swastika flag, welcoming
some white supremacist terrorist from jail, but not most whites, there, not
those you talk about. Your kind are what? 5-10%? Most whites gave their blood
and lives to better Africa, and what they get are fanatics created by racist
fanatics, con men worst than the worst nazis there were. This is from the
communist era, gangs who looted the country because it was white ruled, with
communist fighting methods, and now that they are gone, taken over by Islamic
terrorists. Nothing to do with those who make the country, these are those who
destroy it. Zimbabwe proves it. They never have any brain or intention or
motivation to take over to help the country, they are just pure con men. Anyway,
anyone with a brain would get in the business and compete and make a healthy
economy, not kill people, this is insane. The rulers before, however brutal they
were against the unruly mobs, didn't kill people for nothing. Because they were
prosperous, say, and black. This is the type of Mugabe insanity and shows the
crass ignorance, and stupidity. Dumbass jackass. Reminds of some here who
support terrorists like them. Anywhooo... Dreamwalker seems to be really off
these days, very uncharacteristic, wonder why. He should blame the likes of you,
for what is in your head, not for your color. Makes wonder what his race is,
that he doesn't get that.
J.
From: "zakanaka" <lalapansi@yahoo.com>
The Zimbabwe Independent, 11 June 2004
ERIC BLOCH
Obdurate disregard for realities
THE government is so driven by its anxiety to win the next
parliamentary election and to eclipse its arch-enemy the Movement for
Democratic Change that it has such a fixation as to its perceived
causes of Zimbabwe's economic traumas - as distinct from the actual
causes - that the country's economic decline is a continuing one.
Tragically, there are not only no signs that the government is willing
to recognise that the realities of Zimbabwe's economic morass are
markedly at variance to its perceptions, but there are also recurrent
and clear indications that the government is wholly unconcerned at any
negative effects its policies and actions have upon the economy.
So great is the governmental disregard for the facts of Zimbabwe's
deplorable economic circumstances, that it actually progressively
worsens those circumstances. Even the very admirable and diligent
efforts of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono cannot
counter the deleterious repercussions of the government's economic
acts of omission and commission.
As sound as most, but not all, of Gono's monetary policies are, they
can only slow down the economic decline, instead of reversing it, in
the absence of compatible and complementary fiscal policies and
political actions. Regrettably, there is no evidence of any such
compatibility, while there is untold evidence of incompatibility.
This is not a new condition, but has prevailed since 1997 when the
government embarked upon its foolhardy and catastrophically disastrous
land reform programme and upon its economically unsustainable
compensation for war veterans and ex-combatants (real and pseudo).
The government continued to do so by its economically devastating
military foray in the Democratic (sic) Republic of the Congo (DRC),
which allegedly brought peace to that troubled country, but where
there are frequently repeated conflicts between state and rebels. The
militaristic actions resulted in massive expropriation of the DRC's
mineral and other wealth.
The government's politically driven, and ideologically misguided,
policies which have contributed to the stressed conditions of the
Zimbabwean economy also included ruinous price controls and spurious
valuation of the Zimbabwe dollar.
This has also seen the alienation of most of the international
community, including donor states, the International Monetary Fund,
the World Bank, potential foreign direct investors and many others,
and contemptuous dismissal of any statistics and other facts which
were at variance with its real, or politically required perceptions.
In the past week there have been increasing indications that the
government is seriously considering reinstating price controls which
will either be all-embracing or, at the least, will be applied to all
basic consumer products, with especial emphasis upon foodstuffs. In
doing so, it will be yielding to the pressures and demands of
consumers in general, and the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe in
particular.
It cannot be denied that the immense inflation of recent years has had
devastating effects upon most of the populace. Most have been reduced
to extreme poverty, unable to afford many of the basic essentials of
life, and are suffering intensely.
In such circumstances, it is natural that the distressed seek someone
to blame, and inevitably blame is placed almost exclusively at the
feet of the government - where, in fact, such blame should lie. The
government cannot but be conscious that it is, or will be, held
culpable for the destitution which confronts so many, and it fears
that as a result it will lose much electoral support.
The president and his minions are determined not to lose the votes of
the oppressed consumers but, instead of addressing the root causes of
hyperinflation, they repeatedly resort to ineffectual palliatives and
to attribution of blame to others. One of those palliatives is the
application of price controls.
The tragedy is that the government is unable to learn from experience.
Not only in Zimbabwe but in many other countries, price controls have
been near or total failures. Even when they worked in part, the
concomitant effects upon the economy have been deplorable in the
extreme.
The consequences of price controls are invariably that producers
discontinue production, or considerably reduce production levels,
occasioning vast shortages that create new stresses and hardships for
the consumer. Such limited quantities as are available are invariably
purchased by black marketers who then sell the commodities to the
desperate consumer at prices well above the controlled prices.
Thus price controls very often are the cause of increased inflation,
instead of targeted reductions. In many other instances, in endeavours
to preserve operational viability, producers lower product quality so
as to minimise costs. Yet again, the consumer suffers.
Price controls have, in many instances, forced business closures, with
resultant increased unemployment and loss of downstream economic
spending and activity. They have also been a major deterrent to
investment, for few are desirous of investment in an overly regulated
economy.
Thus not only are the intended benefits not forthcoming, but the
associated economic prejudicial effects are considerable. The only
price controls that are effectual for any reasonable period of time
are those implemented on a reciprocal basis by the government, labour
and the private sector under a negotiated social contract.
The consumer is helped by the government when the catalysts of
inflation are addressed, and not by price regulation. And the consumer
is assisted by governmentally stimulated competition for, when
competition exists, producers are forced to enhance production
efficiencies and expenditure controls in order to be
price-competitive.
But the government has demonstrated over 24 years an infinitely great
ability to disregard these proven facts. Its interest is short term,
being to garner votes for the next election, and it resorts to
whatsoever measures it believes will realise that objective,
irrespective of the medium and long-term adverse consequences.
Its attitude is to gain votes, no matter how adverse the effect of its
actions may be, and that after winning the election, it can then try
to reverse the ill effects or, if they be irreversible, can then blame
others. Re-imposition of price controls will be catastrophic, will
have cataclonically harmful effects upon the population and upon the
economy, and therefore it can virtually be taken for granted that the
government will apply them.
The government is equally adept at challenging any statistics as do
not support its policies or its actions, or at misconstruing and
misinterpreting those statistics. When, very recently, the Central
Statistical Office issued statistics demonstrating a significant fall
in Zimbabwean exports, the government immediately claimed that the
statistics were incorrect.
But commerce and industry, economists, the independent media and many
of the population are aware that exports have fallen substantially.
This year's tobacco crop is much less than produced at any time in the
last 50 or more years, thanks to the government's destruction of
agriculture.
Mining output has fallen sharply, as costs have risen but revenues
have not increased in tandem to the cost escalations. Manufactured
exports have also been substantially reduced, for exporters have been
unable to meet continuously rising wages, electricity charges, finance
costs and other production and overhead expenses, while the rates of
exchange keep their revenues almost static.
They are forced to subsidise the government by a mandatory sale of
part of their export proceeds at a ludicrous rate of exchange of $824
to US$1, whereas purchasing power parity with Zimbabwe's principal
trading partners requires an effective rate of exchange of about $6
000 to US$1.
But the government deludes itself and uses the full force of its
propaganda resources to pretend that Zimbabwe has an increasing export
performance. Only the naïve believe that propaganda, but the
government realises that many voters are naïve. Unfortunately, by
denying the statistics, the government also does nothing to address
the crisis that those statistics reflect.
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13 Jun 2004 10:01:15 AM |
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The Zimbabwe Independent, 11 June 2004
Letters
Our lives are too precious for Zanu PF tests
Courage Shumba, Nyika Vanhu Foundation Trust, UK.
I WONDER at times how anyone who went to war for the right reasons
could be critically mobilised and aggressively positioned against our
right to enjoy the very freedoms we believe were central to the
decision to take up arms and fight against white minority rule 24
years ago.
Today we have people who take up sticks and stones in acts of violence
against citizens to cower them into silence to ensure people are ruled
by a minority of black intellectuals too arrogant to succumb to the
call for a new, vibrant and objective leadership loyal to the
aspirations of the people of Zimbabwe.
Our country needs to move on from pre-Independence propaganda and
build a workable and sustainable economy beyond cheap rhetoric and
half-hearted manoeuvres to temporarily create illusions that the
economy will be well only to be abandoned the day after elections.
That is why I have reached the conclusion that Zanu PF is an elections
party. It seems to me information is more important to them than
development and the welfare of the people.
What people hear is what Zanu PF is really concerned with than any
aspects of their well-being or needs.
The Zanu PF regime seems to me to be not a party but a commercial
business through which the gangsters accord themselves shares in the
national economy under the guise of politics.
As such, by outwardly resembling a political party, they pretend to
represent concerns they coincidentally know to exist by virtue of
being citizens of the country.
As events unfold we are also becoming aware that these people are also
registered citizens of other countries. Suppose we asked cooperative
countries to assist us determine the status of most of these
individuals we could be in for a shock.
The welfare of the people is reviewed not for their good but for the
security of this lot. The nation can also be systematically starved at
periodic times to produce that Messiah outlook towards election time
when food is selectively apportioned to the suffering masses in a
food-for- votes campaign.
It becomes difficult to accept that such goals were what the majority
of Zimbabweans envisaged as the desired consequence and culmination of
Independence.
It is even quite relevant at this stage to wonder if anyone who went
to war and took the sacrifice would be behind such wholesale insults
to those that died for a free Zimbabwe.
Politics then is not about statesmanship but a vehicle for the
accumulation of resources.
The morality to be just is ignored as it has no immediate or long-term
material incentive or financial implications for these gangsters.
As such it is too much to expect a mob of this class to let go a
source of fortune for fairness and freedoms which only allow people to
bring a sudden death to their lavish state-funded luxuries.
One man - Jonathan Moyo - who joined this bunch late is a living
exhibit of what he did not know existed until he was allowed to stay
in the Sheraton five-star hotel for almost a year.
It quickly got to his head and the rest everyone knows. Being a
studied man he worked his way as close to the king as he could to
ensure he missed nothing. Now he is Comrade Prof Jonathan Moyo and not
the critic we thought resembled his education. We must unite against
these people and give ourselves the right to manage our resources for
our own good.
By now most of our roads could have been tarred, rural households
electrified, towns expanded giving more employment. We could have
upgraded our railway network linking many towns allowing people to
travel freely.
Our universities could be well-funded and actively cooperating in
national development, and our governance could have been improved,
localised and decentralised. But as you know these arrogant greedy
intellectuals have nothing to show for it that is worth all this time.
Now as before, the resolve is to maim those that disagree with them.
That is why it is easy to find youths to get drunk and drive to a far
away place to burn an opposition building because there is nothing
worthwhile for them to do - an idle mind as we know can be the devil's
workshop. It is a poignant reality to compare ourselves with other
African countries and see how we digress so deliberately with utter
contempt for all things civilised.
We are going as a nation where everyone is running away from -
barbarism, slavery, violence, lies and poverty.
Courage Shumba, Nyika Vanhu Foundation Trust, UK.
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14 Jun 2004 03:24:40 AM |
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 12:22:05 -0500, "dreamwalker"
<backfromthe@dead.net> wrote:
"Grantland" <mithril@iafrica.com> wrote in message news:40cb34a0.168805829@ct-news.iafrica.com...
From: "zakanaka" <lalapansi@yahoo.com>
Cathy Buckle writes:
Dear Family and Friends,
As an ex farmer I find myself spinning around in dizzy circles trying
to keep up with all the pronouncements and announcements by the
Zimbabwean government on land. As a farmer first I was told that the
government didn't want our farm.
Then I was told by a bunch of loud and angry men armed with half
bricks and sticks who came to the gate that we had to share the farm
with them. After seven months of doing so the men decided that sharing
wasn't good enough and that we should get out of the house because
they wanted that too. Their words were not backed up with any
government paperwork or orders but when the Police said they
wouldn't remove the trespassers because "it is political", there was
no option but to leave. Later the government said that any farmers
still brave enough to be on their farms should downsize and that all
farms would have a maximum hectarage. Then the government changed
their mind again and said that they were going to take even more
farms. What started out as one million hectares became 5 and then 11
million hectares. Now they've changed their mind again.
Zimbabwe made international news this week with the announcement by
Minister John Nkomo that all land is to be nationalized. Title Deeds
are to be made null and void and the State will issue 99 year leases
for agricultural land and 25 year leases for conservancies. Minister
Nkomo said that the government did not intend to "waste time and
money" on disputes with people who had Title Deeds, Court Orders and
other legal documents which confirmed that they were in fact the legal
owners of the land.
What didn't make international news was the Acquisition of Farm
Equipment and Materials Bill. Despite the fact that the Parliamentary
Legal Committee unanimously declared 5 clauses of the Bill
unconstitutional and despite the fact that all opposition MP's walked
out of the House in protest when it came to the vote, the Bill was
passed by Zimbabwe's parliament this week. This Bill now allows the
State to compulsorily acquire farm equipment and materials and
forbids farmers from selling, dismantling, removing or destroying
their own private property. This includes tractors, ploughs,
irrigation equipment, machinery, seed and fertilizer.
When our farm was seized by arbitrary men at the gate, the government
said they were taking back land that had been stolen from them 100
years ago. When the arbitrary men moved into and took over our private
house, dairy, barns, workers homes and the farm shop, the government
said nothing, paid nothing and did nothing and the police said it was
political. It wasn't just bricks they seized, it was fully functional
and completely equipped buildings with windows, doors, roofing, water
tanks and geysers, electrical fittings, fencing and security systems.
Now apparently anything left on, or taken off that farm that the
Zimbabwe government classifies as agricultural equipment or material,
also belongs to the State. The mind just boggles at where this highway
robbery and blatant disregard of people's private property rights will
end and who or what will be next. Perhaps the shirt off my back, I did
wear it when I was a farmer; or what about my computer - I used that
to do the farm accounts and work out how much tax I had to pay the
Zimbabwe government when I was a farmer. The parallels with Jews in
Nazi Germany 60 years ago are chillingly familiar. Love cathy.
Copyright cathy buckle 12th June 2004.
http://africantears.netfirms.com
What goes around comes around. The whites are getting what they deserve. Deal with it Monkey Boy.
*****.
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13 Jun 2004 01:51:15 AM |
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dreamwalker a écrit:
"Grantland" <mithril@iafrica.com> wrote in message news:40cb34a0.168805829@ct-news.iafrica.com...
From: "zakanaka" <lalapansi@yahoo.com>
Cathy Buckle writes:
Dear Family and Friends,
As an ex farmer I find myself spinning around in dizzy circles trying
to keep up with all the pronouncements and announcements by the
Zimbabwean government on land. As a farmer first I was told that the
government didn't want our farm.
Then I was told by a bunch of loud and angry men armed with half
bricks and sticks who came to the gate that we had to share the farm
with them. After seven months of doing so the men decided that sharing
wasn't good enough and that we should get out of the house because
they wanted that too. Their words were not backed up with any
government paperwork or orders but when the Police said they
wouldn't remove the trespassers because "it is political", there was
no option but to leave. Later the government said that any farmers
still brave enough to be on their farms should downsize and that all
farms would have a maximum hectarage. Then the government changed
their mind again and said that they were going to take even more
farms. What started out as one million hectares became 5 and then 11
million hectares. Now they've changed their mind again.
Zimbabwe made international news this week with the announcement by
Minister John Nkomo that all land is to be nationalized. Title Deeds
are to be made null and void and the State will issue 99 year leases
for agricultural land and 25 year leases for conservancies. Minister
Nkomo said that the government did not intend to "waste time and
money" on disputes with people who had Title Deeds, Court Orders and
other legal documents which confirmed that they were in fact the legal
owners of the land.
What didn't make international news was the Acquisition of Farm
Equipment and Materials Bill. Despite the fact that the Parliamentary
Legal Committee unanimously declared 5 clauses of the Bill
unconstitutional and despite the fact that all opposition MP's walked
out of the House in protest when it came to the vote, the Bill was
passed by Zimbabwe's parliament this week. This Bill now allows the
State to compulsorily acquire farm equipment and materials and
forbids farmers from selling, dismantling, removing or destroying
their own private property. This includes tractors, ploughs,
irrigation equipment, machinery, seed and fertilizer.
When our farm was seized by arbitrary men at the gate, the government
said they were taking back land that had been stolen from them 100
years ago. When the arbitrary men moved into and took over our private
house, dairy, barns, workers homes and the farm shop, the government
said nothing, paid nothing and did nothing and the police said it was
political. It wasn't just bricks they seized, it was fully functional
and completely equipped buildings with windows, doors, roofing, water
tanks and geysers, electrical fittings, fencing and security systems.
Now apparently anything left on, or taken off that farm that the
Zimbabwe government classifies as agricultural equipment or material,
also belongs to the State. The mind just boggles at where this highway
robbery and blatant disregard of people's private property rights will
end and who or what will be next. Perhaps the shirt off my back, I did
wear it when I was a farmer; or what about my computer - I used that
to do the farm accounts and work out how much tax I had to pay the
Zimbabwe government when I was a farmer. The parallels with Jews in
Nazi Germany 60 years ago are chillingly familiar. Love cathy.
Copyright cathy buckle 12th June 2004.
http://africantears.netfirms.com
What goes around comes around. The whites are getting what they deserve. Deal with it Monkey Boy.
In your dreams.
J.
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| User: "Leigh_Bee" |
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| Title: Re: Why Africa Starves |
13 Jun 2004 04:51:40 AM |
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(Grantland) wrote in message news:<40cb34a0.168805829@ct-news.iafrica.com>...
From: "zakanaka" <lalapansi@yahoo.com>
Cathy Buckle writes:
Dear Family and Friends,
As an ex farmer I find myself spinning around in dizzy circles trying
to keep up with all the pronouncements and announcements by the
Zimbabwean government on land. As a farmer first I was told that the
government didn't want our farm.
SNIP
The parallels with Jews in
Nazi Germany 60 years ago are chillingly familiar. Love cathy.
Copyright cathy buckle 12th June 2004.
http://africantears.netfirms.com
Yes but the wheel has turned and now the writing is/has been on the
proverbial wall for over a decade, adapt or die, as the globalists
say.
LB
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| User: "Grantland" |
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| Title: Re: Why Africa Starves |
13 Jun 2004 11:50:56 AM |
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(Leigh_Bee) wrote:
mithril@iafrica.com (Grantland) wrote in message news:<40cb34a0.168805829@ct-news.iafrica.com>...
From: "zakanaka" <lalapansi@yahoo.com>
Cathy Buckle writes:
Dear Family and Friends,
As an ex farmer I find myself spinning around in dizzy circles trying
to keep up with all the pronouncements and announcements by the
Zimbabwean government on land. As a farmer first I was told that the
government didn't want our farm.
SNIP
The parallels with Jews in
Nazi Germany 60 years ago are chillingly familiar. Love cathy.
Copyright cathy buckle 12th June 2004.
http://africantears.netfirms.com
Yes but the wheel has turned and now the writing is/has been on the
proverbial wall for over a decade, adapt or die, as the globalists
say.
LB
Hey that's pretty unfeeling and detatched, LB. So I take it there'll
be no objection when we the Boers strike out to rescue our belove d
continent. 2000 RPGs uh
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| User: "Leigh_Bee" |
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| Title: Re: Why Africa Starves |
14 Jun 2004 06:36:25 AM |
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(Grantland) wrote in message news:<40cc8127.253945724@ct-news.iafrica.com>...
leigh8bee@optusnet.com.au (Leigh_Bee) wrote:
(Grantland) wrote in message news:<40cb34a0.168805829@ct-news.iafrica.com>...
From: "zakanaka" <lalapansi@yahoo.com>
Cathy Buckle writes:
Dear Family and Friends,
As an ex farmer I find myself spinning around in dizzy circles trying
to keep up with all the pronouncements and announcements by the
Zimbabwean government on land. As a farmer first I was told that the
government didn't want our farm.
SNIP
The parallels with Jews in
Nazi Germany 60 years ago are chillingly familiar. Love cathy.
Copyright cathy buckle 12th June 2004.
http://africantears.netfirms.com
Yes but the wheel has turned and now the writing is/has been on the
proverbial wall for over a decade, adapt or die, as the globalists
say.
LB
Hey that's pretty unfeeling and detatched, LB. So I take it there'll
be no objection when we the Boers strike out to rescue our belove d
continent. 2000 RPGs uh
Having being born in Africa, I think I have a small insight in to the
problem I really do sympathise with anyone being turfed out of their
homes and property.
However repressive regimes that have been signalling for some time a
change is going to come, and well it has come.
The real tragedy is the people of the whole the nation who are set
back.
Boers eh, grew up with some trekkers!
LB
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| User: "Cuan" |
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14 Jun 2004 03:32:06 AM |
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On 13 Jun 2004 02:51:40 -0700, (Leigh_Bee)
wrote:
mithril@iafrica.com (Grantland) wrote in message news:<40cb34a0.168805829@ct-news.iafrica.com>...
From: "zakanaka" <lalapansi@yahoo.com>
Cathy Buckle writes:
Dear Family and Friends,
As an ex farmer I find myself spinning around in dizzy circles trying
to keep up with all the pronouncements and announcements by the
Zimbabwean government on land. As a farmer first I was told that the
government didn't want our farm.
SNIP
The parallels with Jews in
Nazi Germany 60 years ago are chillingly familiar. Love cathy.
Copyright cathy buckle 12th June 2004.
http://africantears.netfirms.com
Yes but the wheel has turned and now the writing is/has been on the
proverbial wall for over a decade, adapt or die, as the globalists
say.
LB
blame the British, not the farmer.
as for the farmer, they *have* adapted...they've emigrated penniless.
Now Zimbabwe must adapt...and die.
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