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Zimbabwe's white farmers say they have been invited to apply for land - in an apparent U-turn by the government which has seized their land.
All but 300 of the 4,000 white farmers have been forced off their land since President Robert Mugabe started his "fast-track" land reform in 2000.
A farmers' leader says some 200 applications have already been made and more are coming in.
Critics say the reforms have devastated the economy and led to massive hunger.
Originally posted by karby
people, please stop to consider the history of Zimbabwe, and how horribly racism affected it's populaton.
i'd rather see this die than to have it turn into another pointless venomous race baiting thread.
thank you.
[edit on 21-4-2006 by karby]
Originally posted by Valhall
Originally posted by karby
people, please stop to consider the history of Zimbabwe, and how horribly racism affected it's populaton.
i'd rather see this die than to have it turn into another pointless venomous race baiting thread.
thank you.
[edit on 21-4-2006 by karby]
It's not. You are calling it that because we have made statements you didn't want to read. That doesn't make those statements race baiting or anything else. It makes them our opinions. My opinion is based on what happened a few years back. I'm assuming the other poster's is as well.
If the blacks want their land back they need to work it. They don't need to invite their "oppressors" back so that the land can be worked and then another phase of violence occur.
Get up and feed yourself.
In South Africa they also made all the white business owners give half of their companies to blacks or black empowerment groups.
Originally posted by karby
moreover, will the black people of Zimbabwe accept them?
Originally posted by karby
people, please stop to consider the history of Zimbabwe, and how horribly racism affected it's populaton.
[edit on 21-4-2006 by karby]
Originally posted by karby
people, please stop to consider the history of Zimbabwe, and how horribly racism affected it's populaton.
Originally posted by Amuk
Originally posted by karby
people, please stop to consider the history of Zimbabwe, and how horribly racism affected it's populaton.
Racism like killing and stealing the land from a group of people based solely on race????
Any white person that goes back there deserves what they get the next time they decide to "throw whitey out"
now to try to clarify my position: please try to recall what it was that led the black population to react in the atrocious way they did. the feelings were boiling under the surface for quite some time and it was just a matter before it eventually exploded. now that a good portion of the country actually realizes that no matter what happened in the past, that white zimbabwean farmers did eventualy become benificial to the country, will it be possible for the people of that country to backtrack their mistakes and move on? moreover, reguardless of what you may feel, will white farmers even want to come back after what happened to them?
Originally posted by Nakash
Now please, let's quit the "let them starve" crap, a whole country shouldn't pay for a few people's mistakes. I'm sure Zimbabwe/Rhodesia has already suffered enough under Mugabe's hands, this sort of thing is just heaping abuse on these people for no reason.