J Tanner
“We will expropriate land without compensation whether [whites] like it or not. If they object, they can seek refugee in America.”
As a reminder, Rhodesia was essentially the opposite of either Zimbabwe or modern South Africa
It was prosperous, had no anti-black or anti-white apartheid laws, had functioning civil infrastructure, and was a breadbasket rather than a land of fallow farms that have been handed to incompetents out of a desire for racial redistribution
It was prosperous, had no anti-black or anti-white apartheid laws, had functioning civil infrastructure, and was a breadbasket rather than a land of fallow farms that have been handed to incompetents out of a desire for racial redistribution
That held true, for reference, even into the later stages of the
Bush War, when you'd think things would be falling apart, a la Germany
in March of '45
Instead, it was more functional than modern South Africa, which is at peace and aided by the world
Here is how Dr. Theodore Dalrymple described it:
I expected to find on my arrival, therefore, a country in crisis and decay. Instead, I found a country that was, to all appearances, thriving: its roads were well maintained, its transport system functioning, its towns and cities clean and manifesting a municipal pride long gone from England. There were no electricity cuts or shortages of basic food commodities. The large hospital in which I was to work, while stark and somewhat lacking in comforts, was extremely clean and ran with exemplary efficiency. The staff, mostly black except for its most senior members, had a vibrant esprit de corps, and the hospital, as I discovered, had a reputation for miles around for the best of medical care. The rural poor would make immense and touching efforts to reach it: they arrived covered in the dust of their long journeys. The African nationalist leader and foe of the government, Joshua Nkomo, was a patient there and trusted the care implicitly: for medical ethics transcended all political antagonisms.
Instead, it was more functional than modern South Africa, which is at peace and aided by the world
Here is how Dr. Theodore Dalrymple described it:
I expected to find on my arrival, therefore, a country in crisis and decay. Instead, I found a country that was, to all appearances, thriving: its roads were well maintained, its transport system functioning, its towns and cities clean and manifesting a municipal pride long gone from England. There were no electricity cuts or shortages of basic food commodities. The large hospital in which I was to work, while stark and somewhat lacking in comforts, was extremely clean and ran with exemplary efficiency. The staff, mostly black except for its most senior members, had a vibrant esprit de corps, and the hospital, as I discovered, had a reputation for miles around for the best of medical care. The rural poor would make immense and touching efforts to reach it: they arrived covered in the dust of their long journeys. The African nationalist leader and foe of the government, Joshua Nkomo, was a patient there and trusted the care implicitly: for medical ethics transcended all political antagonisms.
Then Mugabe destroyed all that
First came his decade and a half of relatively stable rule after the 1980 "election" that saw his thugs ensure his rule; the British paid for what land expropriation there was, and things remained somewhat stable
Then, the British got tired of paying for Mugabe's slow campaign of compensated land expropriation, and the program ground to a halt because the Zimbabwean regime couldn't afford to pay for farms.
As a result, the terrorist veterans of the Bush War began agitating against the government, which at that point was no longer receiving British aid dollars and so could afford to spend little on the purchase of land, even if its transfer was compulsory.
First came his decade and a half of relatively stable rule after the 1980 "election" that saw his thugs ensure his rule; the British paid for what land expropriation there was, and things remained somewhat stable
Then, the British got tired of paying for Mugabe's slow campaign of compensated land expropriation, and the program ground to a halt because the Zimbabwean regime couldn't afford to pay for farms.
As a result, the terrorist veterans of the Bush War began agitating against the government, which at that point was no longer receiving British aid dollars and so could afford to spend little on the purchase of land, even if its transfer was compulsory.
Out of that toxic stew eventually came the Fast-Track Land
Reform Program that was first pushed and then carried out by those
veteran terrorists.
Showing up to white farms across the country, they took the farms using violence. The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe allowed it, and by 2013 there wasn’t a white-owned farm left in the country.
All were stolen by the regime and its former terrorist clients, many of whom used violence to take the farms
Showing up to white farms across the country, they took the farms using violence. The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe allowed it, and by 2013 there wasn’t a white-owned farm left in the country.
All were stolen by the regime and its former terrorist clients, many of whom used violence to take the farms
That destroyed what was left of Zimbabwe; as the whites died or
fled and their farms ended up in the hands of corrupt, violent thugs who
had no idea how to farm them
So the farms ran fallow, the farming sector collapsed, and the breadbasket of Africa decayed into a famine-riddled disaster zone.
Farm output fell by 45%
But that wasn’t all. The collapse of the farms also meant a collapse of farming jobs; the stolen commercial farms had once employed thousands upon thousands of people, somewhere around 30% of the workforce.19 When they collapsed under the weight of their new owners’ incompetence, all those jobs followed too, throwing a huge proportion of the population out of work. Unemployment rose to 80%.
So the farms ran fallow, the farming sector collapsed, and the breadbasket of Africa decayed into a famine-riddled disaster zone.
Farm output fell by 45%
But that wasn’t all. The collapse of the farms also meant a collapse of farming jobs; the stolen commercial farms had once employed thousands upon thousands of people, somewhere around 30% of the workforce.19 When they collapsed under the weight of their new owners’ incompetence, all those jobs followed too, throwing a huge proportion of the population out of work. Unemployment rose to 80%.
Then came the hyperinflation, which ripped through what was left of the country
As the disaster occurred, hyperinflation hit unimaginable highs, and shredded everything
At its height in mid-November 2008, the rate of hyperinflation reached an estimated 79,600,000,000% per month
South Africa is now glimpsing into the same futureAs the disaster occurred, hyperinflation hit unimaginable highs, and shredded everything
At its height in mid-November 2008, the rate of hyperinflation reached an estimated 79,600,000,000% per month
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