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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  How To Kill A Country
Although Zimbabwe is as broken as any country on the planet, it offers a testament not to some inherent African inability to govern but to a minority rule as oppressive and inconsiderate of the welfare of citizens as its ignominious white predecessor.
Zimbabwe's troops are thought to have withdrawn from the Congo in September of last year, but the consequences of the war are more durable.
Zimbabwe's only real surplus is HIV, which has infected a third of the population, causing life expectancy to drop from fifty-six years in the early seventies to a deeply distressing thirty-five years today.
www.theatlantic.com /doc/200312/power   (6355 words)

  
 Swans Commentary: Zimbabwe Under Siege, by Gregory Elich - elich004
Zimbabwe was handling its finances well, and between 1985 and 1989 had cut its debt-service ratio in half.
White activists close to large landowners and former members of the Rhodesian security forces were said to be tasked with coordinating the murders, and they were supplied with mobile communication stations by the British.
Zimbabwe is cursed with a plague of NGOs, all operating with the self-righteous sense of mission that they have the right to meddle in the affairs of a Third World nation and with the colonial attitude that they should dictate how others are to think and live.
www.swans.com /library/art8/elich004.html   (10646 words)

  
  USATODAY.com - Census: Whites leave Zimbabwe in droves   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The number of white Zimbabweans has continued to drop since the census was conducted in August 2002 amid the seizure of thousands of white-owned commercial farms for redistribution to fl Zimbabweans, analysts said.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently labeled Zimbabwe an outpost of tyranny, while world governments and human rights groups have accused his party of rigging elections, repressing opponents and driving agriculture to the brink of collapse.
The white population peaked at 293,000 in 1974.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-08-22-zimbabwe-whites_x.htm   (512 words)

  
  MAR | Data | Assessment for Europeans in Zimbabwe   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Whites in Zimbabwe did not suffer political discrimination until the dual citizenship policy has resulted in the loss of the right of some Europeans to vote (POLDIS03 = 4) and they do not suffer cultural discrimination, but they do suffer economic discrimination in regards to land reform (ECDIS03 = 4).
Zimbabwe is a food-exporting country and the large commercial white-owned farms account for 80% of the nation's agricultural production and 40% of it foreign exchange earnings.
Because of the land issue, tensions between whites and fls in Zimbabwe, and whites and the government in Zimbabwe, are high.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=55201   (1015 words)

  
 Mugabe criticizes whites as 'supremacists' - Boston.com
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe criticized his nation's tiny white community Friday, saying few were repentant of colonial-era injustices against fls or had integrated with fls.
Mugabe said he and veterans of the guerrilla war that ended white rule and led to independence in 1980 were determined to fight "to the end" unrepentant whites who still believed in the supremacy of their race.
Zimbabwe's economy has been in free fall since Mugabe's government began seizing thousands of white-owned commercial farms for redistribution to fls in 2000, disrupting the agriculture-based economy and leading to acute shortages of food, gasoline and essential imports.
www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2006/03/31/mugabe_criticizes_whites_as_supremacists   (394 words)

  
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Whites must ALSO stand up for themselves, for their achievements, etc. Given how few we are, it should be pretty self-evident that we are capable of much.
The White population of South Africa used to be a force to be reckoned with.
What is the sad thing about the ANC is they are so filled with hate for the White population (this became quite evident during the TRC and since then with the rise in crime) that they could not possibly carry on with the good trend which had already started to spread throughout South Africa.
www.stopboergenocide.com /171585.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id*val*   (1436 words)

  
 12/26/01 - An American Christmas present for African whites?
Mugabe has been encouraging the murder of white farmers by roving gangs of fl hooligans and the seizure of white farm lands by "squatters"—landless fls who have decided they have a right to the land that whites "stole" from them and who have no earthly idea how to farm it or take care of it.
Zimbabwe's having an election in March, you see, and the new bill is part of the president's preparation for it.
There are about 120,000 whites remaining in Zimbabwe and probably less than 6 million in South Africa, where similar problems of racial repression and terrorization are appearing as the fl-controlled government botches up what was once the most economically advanced country on the continent.
www.vdare.com /francis/xmas01_american.htm   (751 words)

  
 Zimbabwe may let whites farm again - CNN.com
Many of Zimbabwe's white farmers have gone overseas or to other African countries after often violent land grabs backed by Mugabe, who initiated the redistribution program six years ago.
Zimbabwe was once the breadbasket of the region and a net exporter of maize and other essential cereals to its neighbors.
As in other African countries, many fls in Zimbabwe were forcibly removed from their land under colonialism, leaving white minorities holding most of the arable land.
www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/africa/10/15/zimbabwe.farmers.reut/index.html?section=cnn_topstories   (465 words)

  
 zanu pf thugs attack whites
Police told whites to stay out of the town and after the violence many white townspeople fled to nearby farms.
She said: "I was standing in the queue and a man came up to me and said: 'You white bitch, I am going to hurt you.' "He said it three times and then hit me on my arm.
They have made it clear they want whites out of the country and this is the way they are going about it," she said.
rhodesian.server101.com /zanu_pf_thugs_attack_whites.htm   (1204 words)

  
 IOL: Mugabe blames whites for Zimbabwe's woes
White Zimbabweans - many of whom lost their farms in a violent campaign of land seizures that began in 2000 - are told repeatedly that they survive only on the sufferance of the fl majority.
Mugabe's current anger against whites was apparently sparked by widespread white support for the MDC in parliamentary elections in 2000, which he saw as a drive by his former Rhodesian enemies to regain power and influence.
Zimbabwe's independence war claimed more than 50 000 mostly fl lives and Mugabe once said that if he had been a vindictive dictator, his government would have fed his former white enemies to hyenas and hanged Smith.
www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw1111557965183B251   (1060 words)

  
 Whites still live good life in Zimbabwe   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Whites came to Africa from all over the globe, but during the heyday of settlement and colonialism they arrived chiefly from England, France, Belgium, Portugal, Germany and the Netherlands.
Many Zimbabwe whites who sent their children abroad for education or work experience are encouraging them not to return, he said.
Zimbabwe and South Africa also are studying plans to redistribute lands held by whites to fl farmers.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/12/01/paradise-lost.2-0.html   (1291 words)

  
 07/01/02 - Why Not Admit Some Real Refugees?
What he may not know is that it has whites as well, who in Zimbabwe are facing the outright expropriation of their farms and perhaps even genocide from the fl government of Robert Mugabe.
But when Robert Mugabe spews anti-white hatred, threatens to murder the whites of his own country, steals their land and incites mobs to attack them, we hear not a peep.
Bush should invite the white residents of Zimbabwe now facing famine, dispossession and genocide to immigrate to the United States as soon as possible.
www.vdare.com /francis/zimbabwe_famine.htm   (760 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | world news Mugabe vows white defiance crackdown
President Robert Mugabe vowed to crack down on whites in Zimbabwe who oppose his policies and have defied eviction orders to abandon their farms, state media reported on Thursday.
Mugabe said half the 2900 white farmers served eviction notices disobeyed a recent deadline to leave their properties under a government programme that seizes land from whites and redistributes it to landless fls.
Zimbabwe was singled out for criticism by US Secretary of State Colin Powell during his speech at the summit, saying the government was leading its people to the brink of starvation through its land policies.
iafrica.com /news/worldnews/154922.htm   (489 words)

  
 American Renaissance News: Whites Flee Zimbabwe In Droves
One of Zimbabwe’s most successful younger industrialists, who asked not to be named, decided to go to Australia a few months after his family was attacked in December in their about 20km south of Harare.
I hate it for the native whites who have spent their lives trying to make their dreams come true there, but to try and carve a white land in Africa of all places borders the absurd.
This is not the case for the fl government in Zimbabwe (which is discriminating whites), and this is not the case for several Western societies with regard to how they treat their minorities.
www.amren.com /mtnews/archives/2004/07/whites_flee_zim.php   (2883 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Zimbabwe whites ignore farming ban
Many of the 2,900 white farmers in Zimbabwe affected by a ban on farming their land, which comes into force at midnight on Monday, are carrying on work as usual.
Zimbabwe is facing severe food shortages as a result of a drought and a crippled economy.
But the government says that by taking land from white farmers and giving it to landless fl peasants, it is ensuring greater self-sufficiency in the future.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2061784.stm   (550 words)

  
 Zimbabwe - whites steal the show   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Whether poor landless folk in Zimbabwe are facing up to white farmers or the mandarins of Mugabe's IMF backed regime, they will find that the realities of ruling class violence everywhere confront them.
The rule of law and the independence of the judiciary have been a major block on social progress in Zimbabwe, because it means the rule of bourgeois law and the independence of the bourgeois state.
Of course, the continuing presence of the white ex-farm owners in the capacity of skilled farm workers (if they have such skills) would be undoubtedly useful to the farm sector.
www.labournet.org.uk /so/35zimb.html   (1487 words)

  
 Fewer Than 50,000 Whites in Zimbabwe   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Finance 24 reports: "Fewer than 50 000 whites remain in Zimbabwe, down from a peak of 293 000 under white rule, according to an analysis of the most recent census published in a state-run newspaper on Monday.
AllAfrica.com reports on the census: "Zimbabwe's fertility rate -- at 3.6 children per woman in the [2002] census -- is roughly half the rate seen at independence and seems set to continue dropping further towards the replacement levels of an average of a little over two children born to each woman.
Zimbabwe has been a basket case since the White Ian Smith government of Rhodesia, abandoned by the world, including then-apartheid South Africa, ceded power to Black terrorist tribesmen allied to the USSR.
www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=5747   (386 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | 300 whites evacuated from Zimbabwe farms
ABOUT 300 white Zimbabwean women and children were evacuated yesterday from a besieged farming district by convoy and airlift as looting and violence reached new heights.
Their husbands in Doma on the high veld 100 miles north of Harare decided on the move after armed and drunken government mobs systematically ransacked farms in the district.
White landowners and farm managers have remained behind, although there is little they can do to stop the rampage.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/08/12/wzim12.xml   (464 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Robert Mugabe steals the farm
Tobacco is Zimbabwe's leading export crop and a major cash producer for both farmers and the government.
The whites in Zimbabwe have nowhere to run in the face of Mugabe's recent efforts to confiscate their land.
Crime and unemployment are endemic in Zimbabwe, AIDS is proliferating there as it is in much of Africa, and famine may be just around the corner.
worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19067   (748 words)

  
 This is Zimbabwe » Blog Archive » Zimbabwe will never be a colony again
Zimbabwe needs a microfinance initiative to help lift its people out of poverty.
And of course, yes, it would be nice if the West kept their grubby little paws off of Zimbabwe for once and all.
Just so long as all the free and independent citizens stay there in their own messy creation because the rest of the world is fed up with Zimbonian economic “refugees”.
www.sokwanele.com /thisiszimbabwe/archives/569   (1080 words)

  
 CNN.com - Court blocks government from stripping whites of Zimbabwe citizenship - December 1, 2000
The government had refused in August to renew the passport of the white bank executive, saying she held British nationality and was forbidden by Zimbabwe law to hold dual citizenship.
In May, the government warned whites that they would be stripped of their Zimbabwe citizenship if they could not produce foreign documentation showing they had no entitlement to citizenship in another country.
The warning was seen as a ploy to punish whites who opposed the government and supported the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party during campaigning for parliament elections in June.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/12/01/zimbabwe.citizenship.ap/index.html   (385 words)

  
 Zimbabwe: Whites Braced for New Attack from Mugabe   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Zimbabwe's dwindling White population is anticipating a fresh onslaught from President Robert Mugabe (pictured) amid warnings that he may seek revenge for his explosive exit from the Commonwealth last week, reports New Zimbabwe: “Harare, the capital, was swept by reports of harassment last week.
White activists around the world are increasing worried about the fate of Whites that remain in the Southern Africa region.
Mike Davies of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, which brings together a variety of groups demanding change, said, “You have to remember that the last time Mugabe lost face like this in public was his defeat in the February 2000 constitutional referendum.
www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=1433   (409 words)

  
 Whites Finished In Zimbabwe - Mass Exodus Beginning
The entire younger generation of whites know they are not wanted and have left or are leaving.
There used to be a joke that if whites and middle-class fls waited too long they would have to sell their plush mansions just to pay for the air fare to london.
The government knows if it can drive whites out of Zimbabwe the rest of the world, and particularly the Western media, will lose interest and then it will be able to deal with its political opposition in no uncertain terms.
www.rense.com /general12/massex.htm   (1060 words)

  
 Zimbabwe   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The first truth is that the whites in Zimbabwe, and their corporate partners have no intention of giving or selling Africans back the land they stole, notwithstanding the fact that Britain or the United States will not provide their promised financing for the purchasing of the land by the Zimbabwean government.
The massive financial support and development of an internal opposition movement in Zimbabwe under outside control, is designed to insure that the African membership in the MDC will be controlled and beholden to the very interests who have no intention of returning the land.
On the other hand, the Zimbabwe Democracy Bill 2000 (ZDB), which declares unilaterally that a state of lawlessness exists in Zimbabwe, really seeks to punish the Zimbabwean government and terrorize the people for daring to be self-determining and independent.
members.aol.com /Belriver/Zim.htm   (613 words)

  
 Zimbabwe government expells whites from their land... - Rage3D Discussion Area
White farmers are considered by many previous opportunistic oppressors who took advantage of the native population.
And that, contrary to an origional agreement, the white farmers are not allowed to keep one farm.
The sick thing about all of this is that these farms have been in possesion legally by these white farmers for generations and generations of family and the world is against the whole thing.
www.rage3d.com /board/showthread.php?t=33630773   (2373 words)

  
 RaceandHistory.com - Zimbabwe Watch: Giving critical analyses on Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's different path and the penalty it has incurred: The academic and media framing of Zimbabwe's difficulties, and an investigation of external and internal causes.
Zimbabwe and the Politics of Demons and Angels
Representatives of the Pan-African movement are not calling this report "a prediction, but a promise," implying that Western countries are insidiously working with operatives both inside and outside of Zimbabwe to accelerate the economic woes and are orchestrating a collapse of Zimbabwe's anti-Western government.
www.raceandhistory.com /Zimbabwe   (1043 words)

  
 Sunday Independent: Whites flee Zimbabwe in droves
Harare - The exodus of Zimbabwe's small and anguished white population is under way with record numbers leaving their homeland, mostly for Britain or Australia.
Among about 350 white farmers who remain on the land enduring varying levels of instability are some who have never been touched by ruling Zanu-PF party militants but are now abandoning their homes.
One of Zimbabwe's most successful younger industrialists, who asked not to be named, decided to go to Australia a few months after his family was attacked in December in their home about 20km south of Harare.
www.sundayindependent.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=2145782   (1007 words)

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