Four days ago in Harare, the leading political party’s decision-making body rejected a land reform act that proposed a further purging of the few remaining white farmers in the country. Of course, many opposing Zanu-PF members, which include President Robert Mugabe, are outraged at such a travesty. Mugabe was especially shocked “because he had the impression that his lieutenants would welcome another opportunity to grab more farms judging from the fact that party bigwigs were the ones leading the current wave of farms evictions.”
ZWNews.com reports:
Politburo [Zanu-PF's decision-making body] members argued that the eviction of more farmers would bring the economy to its knees because they were the ones providing the little supplies that were still trickling onto the market.
No shit! They couldn’t have guessed this was going to happen before they started systematically kicking 4,000 farmers off their land?
The website continued:
[The members] further argued that the [reform act] was driven by nothing other than racism since swathes of land were lying idle following the emotive fast-track land reform programme.
Did anyone argue these land grabs were anything other than racism to begin with when they started back in 2001? Of course not. Africa is all about right now. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Not even about this afternoon. Right now.
My favorite argument of all:
“Other [Politburo members] pointed out that a further purge of white farmers would cause an unnecessary international outcry.”
Translation: Sssh. Don’t tell anyone — especially anyone outside our crumbling country — we’ve screwing this up big time!!!
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