From bread-basket to basket case: Land seizures from white farmers have cost Mugabe's Zimbabwe £7bil

**William Gayley Simpson** · 08-03-2011

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml

Robert Mugabe's family now control 39 seized farms
Food production dropped 70% in former British colony
UN says Zimbabwe needs 1/2billion in aid this year

Redistribution? The family of President Robert Mugabe now control 39 farms seized from white farmers

Zimbabwe's policy of seizing white-owned farms and handing them over to black workers has cost the country £7billion in lost production over the past decade, it has been claimed.
The extent of the agricultural collapse in the former British colony - once famed as the 'bread-basket of Africa' - emerged hours after the UN said it needs half a billion dollars in humanitarian aid this year.
Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, and his family now own 39 farms which had been seized from their white former owners, said the Commercial Farmers' Union in Harare, the country's capital.
Hundreds more have been 'stolen' from experienced white farmers and given to black workers and veterans of the war of independence - many of whom have little knowledge of farming.
Union chief Deon Theron said food production had slumped by 70 per cent in Zimbabwe since President Mugabe began his policy of seizing white-owned farms in 2000.
Mr Mugabe has always said that the land seizures were needed to correct colonial imbalances and that beneficiaries would get only one farm.
Prior to the introduction of the policy, whites controlled about 70 per cent of Zimbabwe's arable land despite make up less than 1 per cent of the country's population.
His officials have not yet commented on the union report, or the claims of farms in Mugabe family ownership.

Anger: President of The Commercial Farmers Union of Zimbabwe Deon Theron says that Mugabe's policies are destroying the country's agricultural industry

'If the aim of the land reform was to evict whites and replace them with blacks, then it can be deemed a success'

Deon Theron, head of Zimbabwe's Commercial Farmers' Union

Mr Theron blamed the land seizures for food shortages and the collapse of Zimbabwe's economy over the past decade, saying it had destroyed the country's tax base.
'If the aim of the land reform was to evict whites and replace them with blacks, then it can be deemed a success,' Mr Theron said.
'However, if the aim was that it should benefit the majority and not only a chosen few, then it has been a failure.'

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**William Gayley Simpson** · 08-03-2011

PBS interview of the son-in-law, Mr. Freeth:

http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf

**DESERTFOX63** · 08-03-2011

UN says Zimbabwe needs 1/2billion in aid this year

I say LET THEM STARVE TO DEATH, that is mother nature's way of controlling the population...

**Edmund Ruffin** · 08-04-2011

Zimbabwe is blessed with the leadership of the world's best educated negro, Robert Mugabe. The President-For-Life has six---count 'em---SIX earned degrees, and a couple of dozen honorary doctorates from the finest institutions in the world.

**William Gayley Simpson** · 08-04-2011

Originally Posted by DESERTFOX63

I say LET THEM STARVE TO DEATH, that is mother natures way of controlling the population...

Ironically, the incompetence/malevolence of the black dictator Mugabe is a great boon to Whites strategically, despite the very tragic fate of too many of our White brethren in Zimbabwe. By removing the White farmers, he has drastically lowered the population of his country. If Whites and White technology left Africa completely, the population would probably halve itself in a matter of a decade or two due to starvation and increased tribal warfare. The Chinese have little concern for the Africans - they just want to farm the land and exploit the resources. When left to their own devices, blacks have never shown much proclivity towards maintaining (let alone building) civilizations.

**Dirigible** · 08-04-2011

WOW!!

Mugabe must be the smartest man in the world.

**Silver Stallion** · 08-04-2011

The West's left wing extremists supported taking the land from the White farmers of Africa.

Have there ever been any protests by "anti-racists" about taking a man's farm for no other reason than his White skin? NOPE.

Anti-racist is code-word for anti-White.

Something else disturbing here is that left-wing loonies would rather see Africans starve than have a White man keep his lawful possessions. They are truly the enemies of mankind.

What will happen to America when the White man is well outnumbered? Zimbabwe might be a great example.