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Kurdt
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http://m.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2014/0703/Robert-Mugabe-says-no-whites-may-own-land-in-Zimbabwe

Robert Mugabe says no whites may own land in Zimbabwe

HARARE, ZIMBABWE

Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has ordered the nation’s remaining white farmers to be booted off their farms in order that the land be given to black Zimbabweans.

In the harshest official policy on race and land reform in a country that has been close to bankruptcy, the 90-year old autocrat said Wednesday that whites may no longer own any land in Zimbabwe. Whites would still be allowed to own businesses and urban apartments.

Speaking to farmers in Mhangura, a small mining town about 120 miles north of the capital Harare, Mr. Mugabe, said all remaining white farmers should leave – and closed the door even on white families renting farms from black owners, as some several hundred have been doing since most were violently chased away a decade ago.

“I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone,” Mr. Mugabe told an emotional crowd in what was billed a patriotic speech. “We say no to whites owning our land and they should go. … They can own companies and apartments…but not the soil. It is ours and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States.”

The policy seemed chilling to many here. Barnabas Thondlana, editor of “The Observer,” a weekly, told the Monitor that, “I strongly and vigorously denounce someone who expects me to hate someone because of the color of their skin. I think what the president is doing is out of order because the problem with our country at the moment are not whites.”

Mugabe, reelected last summer to his fifth consecutive term, also fingered his own associates who make lucrative profits owning farm land and renting it to whites. Mugabe characterized this practice as unpatriotic under his notions of indigenous black African nationalism.

“There are white farmers who are still on the land and have the protection of some cabinet ministers and politicians as well as traditional leaders. That should never happen. They were living like kings and queens on our land and we chucked them out. Now we want all of it.”

War veterans

At the turn of the century Mugabe, a former guerrilla leader, unleashed waves of violent land acquisition by war veterans aligned to his political party. Thousands of white commercial farmers were forced out under a so-called “indigenization” land reform policy.

Mugabe’s land seizure was widely seen as a means of strengthening his grip on power after the emergence in 1999 of a robust opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai – whom Mugabe defeated in the election last July. The policy gave Mugabe a means to pacify a black rural population that for years had worked the least productive land, a legacy of British colonial era.

Since then, Zimbabwe has been in an economic tailspin, with banks collapsing and with the government unable to pay the wages of many in the civil sector.

Much of the land previously taken by those in the Mugabe regime has benefited the security, police and military wings of the leader’s circle.

Mr. Thondlana, the weekly editor, adds: “The problems with our country at the moment are dictatorship, governance, corruption, kleptocracy and other all forms of prejudices. We should be fighting these prejudices like tribalism, regionalism and racism. I say no to racism.”
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this is genuinely impressive.
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hi
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http://www2.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/history/earlyhaiti/1805-const.htm

THE 1805 CONSTITUTION OF HAITI
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12. No whiteman of whatever nation he may be, shall put his foot on this territory with the title of master or proprietor, neither shall he in future acquire any property therein.

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. . . . my liberty
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anyone who still has an active SA account wanna confirm that the dorks in D&D are predictably and pathetically bemoaning this Very Good Thing that happened?
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Mugabe is cool, another good name to test 1st world chauvinist trotskkkyist imperialists against revolutionary marxists
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Kurdt
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chickeon posted:

anyone who still has an active SA account wanna confirm that the dorks in D&D are predictably and pathetically bemoaning this Very Good Thing that happened?

its against the rules to post threads in d&d

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HenryKrinkle posted:

this is genuinely impressive.


It's quite a bit more complicated than that. Mugabe's government is so unbelievably corrupt (and has been for some time) that it doesn't make a lick of difference if "the people" support him or not. Source: my family came to the U.S. on political asylum status from Zimbabwe. My dad was a (white) Rhodesian Air Force pilot who

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i support destruction of parasites and rootless cosmopolitans. long live the zimbabwean people.
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political car tune
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Mugabe Glasses...
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damn, mugabe's still got it
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gyrofry posted:

“I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone,”



Mashonaland West has a population of 1.5 million lmao

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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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my last landlord kicked comparatively more white people off their land when i stopped paying my rent
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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thanks, MOM
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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there were literally more white people at Cliven Bundy's ranch
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hi
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the remaining white farmers are probably still taking up a disproportionate share of the land. and even if they aren't, whites in Zimbabwe should still be banned from owning land based on principle.

still tho, i worry about the possibility that focusing on race could lead to concentrations of land ownership in the hands of a capitalist black elite, as happened in Haiti. hopefully mugabe knows what he's doing.
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HenryKrinkle posted:

still tho, i worry about the possibility that focusing on race could lead to concentrations of land ownership in the hands of a capitalist black elite, as happened in Haiti. hopefully mugabe knows what he's doing.


probably exactly that.

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i like that sig hk
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it is excellent
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Mike Nelson here.
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what about african albinos? are they considered black or white? these and other criticisms in my new column at the atlantic.
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Marxsplainer
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getfiscal's hit weekly column, "eye on identity"
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would obama lose his farm if he lived there
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to be the a good author for that article you should try and make your appearance as much as uncle fester or loard Varys as possible (even more than normall) or maybe like the emperor from star wars
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Tonight I talked at length with a man from Zimbabwe at a company party. He attends MIT and he is working in the web startup world. We talked a lot about Zimbabwean politics and tech entrepreneurialism. He believes Zimbabwe needs to open up to foreign investment for the good of the people. His dream is to achieve as much as he can in America and then return to Zimbabwe and influence it for positive change.
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Yesssshhh, *slurps malevolent* micro-loans, sharecropping yesssshhhhccchhss
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Mike Nelson here.
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every student i met in china said they wanted to move to the US to get a professional or graduate degree, make a lot of money, then move back to china to help the country. i never understood what the last part would entail but yeah. good times.
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well theres like a billion people in China. you gotta figure that if each one of them steals even one towel or bottle of shampoo when they leave, itll really add up. i mean hotel-quality towels are like $10 minimum at Walmart. thats $10 billion dollars right there
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hey you know how like the Ukrainian fascists that fled to Canada and the US after the defeat of the Nazis in WW2 are coming back to Ukraine to take their rightful place in the government and economy? Well, thats them coming back to help their country
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Barbarossa posted:

would obama lose his farm if he lived there



just half of it lol

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100% reptilian