Zimbabwe

There are some people, how many, I do not know, but I do know there are some, a percentage, a sizable minority, who believed that Robert Mugabe was working for the poor of Zimbabwe, when the government ordered white landowners off their land.

I know there are some Europeans who agreed with his policy because I talked to several people. Educated, wealthy, very European - and supportive of Mugabe's actions.

What those actions accomplished was a reversal of everything - Zimbabwe is a debtor nation that must import its food or starve. It was the breadbasket of Africa, and today, it imports all its food. There is a direct correlation between the seizing of the farms which sit barren and the end of Zimbabwe as a breadbasket for food production.

In March 2008, Mugabe lost the election he was so sure he would win, and according to the article linked below, was ready to concede on television. He was ready to concede, that is, until the apparatchik that kept him in power - terror, fear, and death, informed him otherwise. He was told he would keep power or the military would stage a coup and keep him in power.

Mugabe's party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, took power in 1980 after a protracted guerrilla war. The notes and interviews make clear that its military supporters, who stood to lose wealth and influence if Mugabe bowed out, were not prepared to relinquish their authority simply because voters checked Tsvangirai's name on the ballots.

"The small piece of paper cannot take the country," Solomon Mujuru, the former guerrilla commander who once headed Zimbabwe's military, told the party's ruling politburo on April 4, according to notes of the meeting and interviews with some of those who attended.


In an effort to give his thugs something in return for their assistance - the murders, threats, burnings, rapes - Mugabe began a process of property seizure. He then turned the property over to a bunch of useless thugs, who like all thugs everywhere, sat on their asses and gloated over what they had taken - lords of their piece of dirt. The farms, once bountiful, producing food for every citizen of Zimbabwe and for much of Africa, were left fallow, and never again produced food. Their Lords oversaw dirt and they were pleased, for in all their hate and jealousy, they didn't care, and Mugabe became wealthier. His home rivals the White House in grandeur and size. The palace is an eyesore, and will be, I hope, reduced to rubble when Mugabe is gone.





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