I see that the Zimbabwean Government is taking action to further discriminate against those few white farmers that remain. The BBC presents this as “radical steps to shift power from white to black”. Or, blatant racism, if you like. Where’s Diana Abbot when you need her?
NOT ALL RACISM IS WRONG
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Unfortunately, David, thanks to the lervely BBC, we know exactly where Diane Abbot is when we errr…need her – deficit reduction is racist, natch!
OOooops – just seen thread. Schoolboy error.
No mention that Zimbabwe used to be one of the most prosperous Countries in Africa and produced huge amounts of food. Not it’s a shit hole just like the rest of Africa.
Steady, Martin, Gambia has its problems, but it is still quite nice. You should try a winter sun holiday there some time 😀
OK, my only experience of Africa was Senegal 20 years ago!
Martin,
Wow ! ( amusingly, that means “yes ” in Wolof language ).
I wonder how you got on there ? Beautiful country , and the French/Senegalese military know how to deal with the Casamance rebels and it is not by appeasement !
Another advantage is that Irn Bru is available in all the best supermarkets. Such is the power of the Scots 😉
Um the military 🙂
Should add the only Country I’ve ever entered and left without going through customs or ANY security check, oh the power of HM armed forces.
Martin,
This really has nothing to do with BBC bias, but some years ago, I was in a village, Bajana, in up-country Gambia and noticed they had a lot of metal duck-boards. It was the rainy season and the village headman and half the village assembled on these boards. I asked them “where did you get these ” ? Reply ” British Army gave them to us “. I said “well, I am British and am taking them back “. Reply, “How are you going to fit them in your suitcase ” ?
Minister for Indigenisation…..says it all. It’s politics. The black elite of Zimbabwe want their security after Mugabe dies and are following the ANC route in order to entrench themselves economically in the post- Mugabe era. It will be the ‘black’ elites who will benefit and not the ordinary Zimbabwean. Of course, the usual marxist rhetoric of colonialism and racism will be used the provide a spurious moral justification. The politics of envy will be used to enable the placing of the already economically advanced black elite (usually Mugabe’s own Shona tribe) into gold-plated sinecures.
The moralising is, of course humbug.
The primitive Marxist moral blackmail (distortion of ‘justice’) which seems to be omnipresent in the unreal world of the BBC…(climate justice etc) creates a readiness to see the world in ideological terms.
The BBC is quite hopeless when it comes to political reality.
The narrative is always simplistic and therefore they sucker themselves into complicity with tribalist Third World elites.
Will they treat Chinese firms in the same way?
RGH,
Well said !
I think my record shows i’m not a BBC apologist but there was an air to the interview which made me think that ‘we all know your country are allowing genocide and making it worse’.
On this i’m quite happy to go with incredulity and the better to allow this ‘minister’ to speak then the better for records when Mugabi dies.
You can’t stop being appaled sometimes.
Billy Rat = £30 million? Yer avvin a ferkin larf, ain’tcha? Lived in Bolton for too long.
It’s not just about the farmers – they’re gone – but about any white-owned or run commercial enterprise, including the multinationals. The water nearest to the plughole is now gurgling ever more loudly….
This is what is happening in Zimbabwe. BBC please note when adopting your ‘restitution for colonialist racism’ narrative:
“MEMBERS of Parliament are demanding FIVE vehicles each, one every year, for the duration of their five-year terms. The shock demand is being pushed by Parliament’s Welfare Committee.
MPs are normally provided soft loans to acquire vehicles for use in constituency business – but the cash-strapped government found itself unable to fulfil that commitment after the 2008 elections. MPs queued up to borrow vehicles from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe which they are refusing to return.
Uzumba MP Simba Mudarikwa [Zanu PF], a member of the Welfare Committee, says vehicles bought by MPs under the parliamentary vehicle loan facility are “not worth using” after a year because of heavy use.”
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-3306-MPs+want+new+cars+every+year/news.aspx
ZanuPF is the Mugabe power elite (Shona tribe) with its own ‘enforcers’.
RGH,
And never forget Mugabe’s Genocide against the Matabele. One for a fearless BBC investigation. He should be arrested and tried for that.
‘Where’s Diana Abbot when you need her?’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/diane-abbott-calls-for-race-and-gender-checks-on-job-cuts-2078607.html
‘…Ms Abbott told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme’
But I suspect you knew the answer.
I still argue that if we are prepared to remove Saddam, we should remove Mugabe. It would have sent a lesson long ago that the world won’t put up with cruel and despotic (not to mention racist) regimes like Mugabe’s. Instead no, we don’t act – and what’s worse is that the ‘better’ African leaders refuse to condemn him themselves.
There’s a huge irony here too – the Left go silent on Mugabe quite often, but it’s the poor, black majority who suffer most under him. They are the ones who go without food thanks to his farm grabs.
Mugabe would have to break UN Resolutions whose penalties are military force like Hussein did I suppose.
As tragic a situation as Zimbabwe is, unless its a direct threat to our security we shouldn’t be putting the lives of British servicemen on the line. Iraq, inspite of Colonel Tim Collins recent comments, was completely different. There’s no way Saddam could be allowed to remain in a post 9-11 world. It’s heartbreaking what’ happened in Zimbabwe, but the loss of British servicemen is heartbreaking too. I dont think Zimbabwe could justify their loss. Arming democratic oppostion is another matter though.
I didn’t know the Whites had any power in Zimbabwe.
Once the blacks have slaughtered all the cattle and failed to tend to crops, the land will revert to it’s wild state and nobody will get fed.
Just as has happened at all the other farms stolen because their skin is white.
Just don’t come around shaking a charity tin in my face when they are starving.
They won’t need to. Your elected officials – of any stripe – will fall over themselves to give your money to them, regardless of whether you think it’s a good idea or not.