Do you think it fair that 1% of population owned 80% of the best farm land as the whites did in zimbabwe?

Question

also that britain gave mugabe knighthood when he killed 20000 of his own people in metabele in 1970's, but when he shifts a few white farmers they condemn him?

Answer 1

Well now that the whites have been kicked off their land, Zimbabwe is starving. It seems the whites actually knew what they were doing. Mugabe is blaming everyone else for the fact that Zimbabwe is in the economic s*****r, but it is his fault for kicking out the white farmers.

Answer 2

When you hate a whole group of people because of their skin color it makes you a racist.

I've never been to Zimbabwe so that involves me as a white person how?

Answer 3

It is sad to say, but the people were better off under white racism than black marxism

Answer 4

Britain sent £44 million of aid to zimbabwe to facilitate poor black people buying land from those white farmers under what was called the "willing buyer,willing seller deal".

The reason we condemn Murderer Mugabe is because he took the money to line his pockets instead. Then he murdered the white farmers and took their land for himself and his cronies. When the poor black farmers asked for their share he murdered them too. Then he and his "veterans" or thugs ran the farms into the ground and let the people starve.

Zimbabwe was the "Bread basket of Africa" it fed many nations. Under Mugabe it cannot feed itself.

You are forgetting that Britain supported the campaign to bring down Mr. Smiths white Rhodesia. We were in favour of emancipation of black Zimbabweans.

We arent the bad guys this time, he is.

Don't believe me, just google Zimbabwe and read a bit about it.

Answer 5

look what mugabe did,destoried it all,hope your happy with the black man!!

Answer 6

The white farmers employed black workers, grew the crops that fed people and made the Zimbabwean economy one of the best in the African continent.

Now what, Mugabe throws them out and gives the land to his acolytes, they destroy the economy, cause stravation and make Zimbabwean economy a joke.

Do you think that is right and fair ?

Answer 7

The word "fair" is irrelevant as is the ratio 1% - 80%.

Neither the word nor the statistic tells you anything of substance about the society to which it applies.

It cannot therefore be the basis for any sensible analysis , debate or dialog which will tell you whether these are "bad" and what if anything could or should reasonably be done about them.

Mugabe's "land reform" is based on crude sloganising about the "unfairness" of the 1%:80% distribution and colonial legacies etc.It has predictably gone the way of all other previous land nationalisations and forced collectvisations.Is he really going for a fairer land distribution or more land for Zanu-PF members.

What's so "fair" about pursuing this whilst your country is becoming increasingly malnourished if not verging on starvation.

Answer 8

Yes . They were Zimbabweans too . They farmed successfully and the Country had food in abundance. Economically too Zimbabweans had stability and law and order flourished. Mugabe changed all that by rewarding his Thugs to  il legally acquire land ,property and ownership from Zimbabweans who were White skinned .In doing so he believed he has the Right to the Presidency in perpetuity. He has wronged the Nation in a way that has impoverished them for decades to come.His thugs will want to hold on to their ill gotten gains and ruin any chance that might even slow down the decline .Yours is a h**l Hole where Satan in the guise of Mugabe holds sway. Pray for deliverance.

Answer 9

Yes!Why?They made the best of the land and made a surplus of food that could be exported!Now!Under Mugabe!!The Zimbabwean farming industry has reverted to the Middle Ages!

Answer 10

They should own land who can afford it and afford to maintain it; communism was tried and was a failure.

Answer 11

If the people can eat, then yes it is fair. What is not fair is kicking people off the land because of their race, and making everybody starve. If just 1% of the people know how to make a country work, then is it fair to starve 99% because of bigoted ignorance. The whites may not be perfect, but as I said, they kept the country and most of Africa fed.Just remember, racism is a two way street.

Answer 12

a little redistribution rather beating them up and forcing them out of the country, he did same with the Indian and p**i, small business owners, destroying the fledgling middle class. the 200,000 % inflation is a result of broken economy...Mugabe can blame none but himself and a few corrupt ******* like Pat Robertson and his ilk who still play footsie with Mugabe in his Criminal investments.

Answer 13

Unfortunately the world is not fair. If every person in Zimbabwe was given a equal share of the land, some would succeed and some would fail as food producers. Those who fail would sell their land to the successful. Eventually the successful would own most of the land. That's what would happen in a free society,the successful would provide work and in this case food for those without land.

Then some politician wishing to ingratiate himself with electors would promise all those without a share in the nations land. If he wins the process will start over again and the people will go without food Will the people never learn

Answer 14

probably not, but i don't think Mugabe's way is working out to well either.

Answer 15

No, I don't think it was fair, or right. Not right either that decades after Zimbabwe fought for its liberation an area, or areas, the size of Scotland are still owned by white people who live in the UK. Nor is it right or just that so many of the white people who did stay in Zimbabwe, and became citizens of that country, continued with a lifestyle only sustainable by the retention of black servants who were essentially serfs.

But it's also true that many white people like me, who condemn without reservation such injustices, who believe that a country should belong to its people, and that those who acheived its freedom should be recognised and rewarded, do not condemn Mugabe for his shifting of "a few white farmers".

We condemn him for what he has permitted Zanu PF to become; for not ensuring a successor worthy to take his place as the leader of a liberated country. For bringing homelessness, starvation, poverty and death to millions of black Zimbabweans.

And because we no longer have ignorance as our excuse, as many of us did in the 1970's when I for one knew nothing of the geneocide in Metabele.

Answer 16

Did YOU know that 80% of the wealth, in Britain, is owned by 6% of the population? Is that OK,..when so many people in this country , are living in poverty? If you want to stand on a soapbox,..do it here!

Answer 17

There is no Rule of Law under Mugabe - he has reduced the country to the Rule of the Mob.  

The guy's policies are barbaric and medieval.  He's the biggest racist around at the moment.

Answer 18

There are no perfect systems, anyone who thinks there is one is kidding themselves. The whites as it is put managed the fertile lands blessed of Zimbabwe and made it one of the few if only net exporters of food in Africa. They employed many Blacks and made the country a success within an otherwise struggling continent. I am not for the return of colonialism but something has to be done about Mugabe even if he does not control any oil exports.

Answer 19

Mugabe and his government are a shame and his most resent election was a strong arm display and why Zimbabwe will always be a poor, malnutritioned and corrupt country.