On Wednesday, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe (pictured) told White farmers that they must get off the land, because his nation is not a place for White landowners, according to AllAfrica.
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Speaking in Mashonaland West at the A1 Model Settlement Tenure Permit, President Mugabe spoke of the reported few hundreds of White farmers who still own land in Zimbabwe.
“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.
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“I have been given a list of 35 White farmers in Mashonaland West alone and in just a few districts that have been audited. We say no to Whites owning our land and they should go.”
President Mugabe then went on to clarify what Whites could actually own in his homeland, “They can own companies and apartments in our towns and cities but not the soil. It is ours and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States.”
Clearly just warming up, President Mugabe then turned his sights on Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling him a “boy from the streets.”
“We had an agreement with the Margaret Thatcher government and when Tony Blair came he reneged on that agreement. I pleaded with him to review his decision but he was a boy from the street with no experience so he stuck to his guns,” said the veteran leader.
“I was not amused and told him to keep his England and we would keep our Zimbabwe. We will not pay for our land and we will not ask our people to pay for it because they never paid for it in the first place.
“They were selling to each other among themselves, and we will not recognise any of that nonsense. They were living like kings and queens on our land and we chucked them out. Now we want all of it.”
Whites came from Europe and South Africa in the 1890s. The Land Apportionment Act of 1930 divided the lands by tribes: Whites, Shona, and Ndebele. And while traditionally, Africans shared the lands communally, the new laws that favored Whites made it nearly impossible for Africans to get financing, equipment, and training to farm large plots of land.
But Whites, who obviously already had a mastery of Western land ideology, understood title deeds to land and were consequently able to buy and develop large areas of land for commercial farming businesses.
Their Western and White advantage led to other advantages, such as prime land in the fertile upland region, and not surprisingly, the White population flourished.
Meanwhile, Africans were regulated to low rainfall areas, forcing 99 percent of the population on to 25 percent of the land.
By 1979, Whites consisted of only 5 percent of the population, with only 4,500 farmers, but owned 70 percent of the fertile land.
Mugabe came to power on the heels of the Lancaster House Agreement in 1980, which stated that Mugabe couldn’t make any land reform changes for 10 years.
After decades of stops and starts in attempting to redistribute land back to Africans, by 2000, Zimbabwe government instituted the Fast-Track Land Reform Program, violently forcing mostly White farmers off their lands without compensation — earlier iterations of land reform ensured that Whites would be compensated for the lands they occupied.
The government reportedly seized 110,000 square kilometers of land and millions of Black farmers were said to have become unemployed.
By 2005, the Parliament agreed to nationalizing all farmland, silencing farmers who wanted to contest the land grab in court.
Today, the benefits of redistributing land among Africans cannot be comprehensively considered for two prime reasons: many of the beneficiaries of land that was formerly “owned” by Whites have reportedly had little experience in managing commercial farmland properly; this fact has supposedly caused crop production to plummet in the country. In addition, the United States froze the nation’s credit once the Fast Track Land Reform was passed, almost immediately cutting Zimbabwe’s trade surplus deficit of $322 million in 2001 to a deficit of $18 million by 2002.
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I FUCKING AGREE!!! Now vacate that bitch killing our animals!
Great adaptation to the needs of an emerging nation. All Western poltical, social, and economic academicians are challenged to deal with the reality of colonialism versus the ideology of colonialism. I think Mugabe has done his homework and will move on to use the greed factor of Capitalism as practiced in the West to capture the profits generated from using his Nations lands and peoples. The US needs to get real.
Why must They turn to commercial farming when what they want to do is live on the land not profit from it! Small farms surporting their own communities, not working like slaves! It's not all about profit. It's all about the standard their humanity. In three or four generates England will be a foot note in the rich history of the Zimbabwe.
Now what will the European white supremacist psychopaths do? We must study the enemy. My guess is they, the white supremacists will recruit Islamists from the north to invade and murder the Christians in Zimbabwe to create strife and with offers from America to give protection along with France. America and Europe are the governments who hired the Muslims in the first place. All the fallen countries in the so-called middle east are supported by western powers. Thank you Mr. President Mugabe.
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"Europeans created the most dysfunctional, corrupt, and destructive economic and political systems the world has ever seen. If that wasn't bad enough, they went around the entire world and imposed their fucked up economics and politics on all of humanity. Now that it's time to pay the (ecological) piper, Whites want to pretend that Ecological Collapse is a human problem, a mankind problem, that all of humanity is to blame for the utter destruction of the world ecosystems and the subversion of the planet's ability to sustain life. That's what angers me the most; the fact that Whites held Western Civilization up as the pinnacle of human achievement, but will not accept the full consequences of their grand technological and industrial advancements. We are also plagued by pretenders to the economic and industrial throne like the Chinese, East Indians, South Koreans, and the Japanese doing their part to rape and kill our only fucking inhabitable planet! I don't even need to mention the African/Black capitalist who seek to crawl up the economic ass-crack of any Omnicidal economy that's willing to carve out a space for them! Fuck them too. Fuck Western Culture and all of it's adherents. Western Culture fucking ecologically destroyed the landmass of Europe, which is what drove those fucking wig wearing savages to colonized the rest of the world in the first damn place, and now they've succeeded in turning the rest of our lush, and abundant planet into a hi-tech version of Medieval Europe, complete with a small corrupt elite and billions of ignorant serfs and peasants. Oh, and.... Fuck you Negros who are so proud of your ability to integrate and achieve within this shit heap of a system too. Yall need to stop bragging and put yall meager resources to use in service of Pan-African Revolution and subverting your Masters before the Whites see fit to just snatch what little yall got like they did so many times in the recent and distant past." —Diallo Kenyatta.
"The west, greedily feeding fat on Africa adversaries. The Europeans, since 1440, have been reorganizing the world. The world we now live in was organized by them. They conquered the lands of all continents and unilaterally redesigned the social and biological modes of existence. They changed the course of rivers, removed mountains, and built deserts. They created scarcity in the land of abundance. They moved populations form one continent to another. They created new races. They established themselves as the master race and all others as their servants. They made what they like good and everything else bad. In order to liberate ourselves we must take the world and then reorganize it according to our worldview. Only then will mankind be allowed to live in harmony with the universe. Only then will we be truly free." ----Jacob H. Carruthers
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I highly appreciate President Robert Mugabe. This is about doing right for your people. Mugabe has my vote every time.
president mugabe is very right take or leave