Dear Editor,
In a very rare show admitting that he was wrong, the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has finally admitted what the rest of the world already knows -- that his land redistribution policy, in which white-owned lands were seized and given to blacks, was a failure.
Speaking with the BBC recently, he admitted that taking away the farms that white people owned and giving them to blacks to "correct a historical wrong" was a mistake as. According to him, it is now clear that the new black owners could not manage them.
When Mugabe ordered the seizure of the white-owned lands, some years ago, he won a lot of praise from many people, especially many pan-Africanists and anti-white racists throughout the world, and especially here in the Caribbean. Many thought that he was finally making "things right".
Of course, it was a complete disaster for Zimbabwe. The country saw its well-earned status of being the region's breadbasket completely reversed. The country became a major net importer of food. The economy, which was one of the region's strongest, was on the road to destruction. The Zimbabwe currency became completely worthless.
During all of this time, Mugabe, along with his blind pan-Africanists and anti-white racists supporters, was deluding himself into believing that the mess that Zimbabwe was rapidly becoming was not on account of his abysmal mismanagement of the country. According to some, Zimbabwe was being destroyed by the "wicked British colonial imperialists" and other hostile Western powers. Mugabe even went as far as to blame climate change for his country's predicament.
Now that he has come clean, I wonder what those same pan-Africanists and anti-white racist have to say now? Do they still blame the "evil" British and the West for what happened to Zimbabwe, or will they do the "Mugabe" too and admit the truth that Zimbabwe's demise was all the fault of Mugabe's bad policies?
I hope that we have learned something from Mugabe. I understand that the government of South Africa is considering some sort of land redistribution that is not too dissimilar to Zimbabwe's. I would urge that government not to seize, wholesale, lands that now belong to capable white owners and give them to blacks who may not be able to manage them. That would be a disaster for South Africa too.
As for Mugabe, maybe he is finally learning in is very old age. That can only be good; both for him and his blind supporters.
Michael A Dingwall
michael_a_dingwall@hotmail.com
Zimbabwe finally coming to terms with the truth
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In a very rare show admitting that he was wrong, the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has finally admitted what the rest of the world already knows -- that his land redistribution policy, in which white-owned lands were seized and given to blacks, was a failure.
Speaking with the BBC recently, he admitted that taking away the farms that white people owned and giving them to blacks to "correct a historical wrong" was a mistake as. According to him, it is now clear that the new black owners could not manage them.
When Mugabe ordered the seizure of the white-owned lands, some years ago, he won a lot of praise from many people, especially many pan-Africanists and anti-white racists throughout the world, and especially here in the Caribbean. Many thought that he was finally making "things right".
Of course, it was a complete disaster for Zimbabwe. The country saw its well-earned status of being the region's breadbasket completely reversed. The country became a major net importer of food. The economy, which was one of the region's strongest, was on the road to destruction. The Zimbabwe currency became completely worthless.
During all of this time, Mugabe, along with his blind pan-Africanists and anti-white racists supporters, was deluding himself into believing that the mess that Zimbabwe was rapidly becoming was not on account of his abysmal mismanagement of the country. According to some, Zimbabwe was being destroyed by the "wicked British colonial imperialists" and other hostile Western powers. Mugabe even went as far as to blame climate change for his country's predicament.
Now that he has come clean, I wonder what those same pan-Africanists and anti-white racist have to say now? Do they still blame the "evil" British and the West for what happened to Zimbabwe, or will they do the "Mugabe" too and admit the truth that Zimbabwe's demise was all the fault of Mugabe's bad policies?
I hope that we have learned something from Mugabe. I understand that the government of South Africa is considering some sort of land redistribution that is not too dissimilar to Zimbabwe's. I would urge that government not to seize, wholesale, lands that now belong to capable white owners and give them to blacks who may not be able to manage them. That would be a disaster for South Africa too.
As for Mugabe, maybe he is finally learning in is very old age. That can only be good; both for him and his blind supporters.
Michael A Dingwall
michael_a_dingwall@hotmail.com
Zimbabwe finally coming to terms with the truth
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