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Original Post Date: 2007-10-04 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: The BeardedMan
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Sounds like the Alamo – but I do understand the need that Campbell has to protect what is his – what he carved out of virgin bush and turned into a productive farm.
Is this the depths to which Zimbabwe has sunk? How very, very sad.
“Nothing in Zimbabwe is as bitterly contested as land. It arouses the tangled resentments and prejudices going back to colonization, a bitterness that has only hardened after nearly 30 years of independence from the British. There are blacks who see whites as foreigners who have no right to the land. There are whites who think blacks don’t make good farmers or that they have no feelings for animals or trees.
The regime of President Robert Mugabe has gone further than most African governments in systematically unraveling the colonial pattern of land ownership.
But the cost to the country has been enormous. It transformed Zimbabwe from a modern agricultural economy that exported food across southern Africa into a country of subsistence farming, leaving millions on the brink of starvation.“
These are people not fighting for their own benefit. These are people fighting for a way of life, and the opportunity to do what they are good at – farming and producing food for the people.
I have yet understand why the land grab continues while there are huge tracts of land, already repossessed, that now belong to senior government officials, Minister, Governors, Senators and officers of the army and police – as yet unworked, untilled, lying fallow since the day they were taken. Why take even more land? Because they can?
This is the damaged thinking of the Mugabe administration. No longer are they thinking of land – they are thinking that whites have no place on the farms, in the cities, in the country. This is Mugabe at his best – racial, oppression, violent and determined…
“In 2000 Mugabe, blaming the British for reneging on the funding deal, encouraged war veterans and others to invade white farmers’ land, and farms were seized without payment.
Mugabe has handed out the land to cronies in a system of patronage reminiscent of a traditional chief, Robertson said.
“The government was dispossessing people of land rights so that they could allocate land and restore what was essentially a patronage system, distributing the best land to the most loyal supporters,” he said. “Individuals have no ownership rights and can be dispossessed at the first sign of disloyalty.”
The man planning to move into Campbell’s stately farm homestead is one of the country’s big men, Nathan Shamuyarira, official spokesman for the ruling ZANU PF party.“
No mention of the (163)£114 million pounds given to Mugabe in the 1980s specifically for payment of compensation for farmers who sold their land back to the government on the agreed “willing buyer-willing seller” basis. No mention whatsoever – because if he did, he might be asked to account for that money…
Where is it? What did he do with it? Why is everyone so reluctant to ask Mugabe for a full accounting?
I am at a loss to understand why anything Mugabe does or says is swallowed by the free world – without question.
This is a long article, but well worth the read as the reporter is able to get inside the head of a man who is deeply convinced that the farm he built and lives on is his – and it is not for the government to take just because they can.
“After independence in 1980, he built up his game farm to sustain a safari business. Campbell remembers the day his first four giraffes arrived by truck in 1982. “I had a dream as a young man. I wanted to have a farm with as many wild animals as possible,” he said. “Two years ago, we had 45 giraffe, 50 eland, 150 wildebeest, 300 impala. We had zebra, wart hogs. We had all manner of game here.
“I achieved my dream. We had people coming from all over the world. We had a magnificent setup,” he said. “It’s been unraveled over the years, and last year it was all burned down.“
What a waste. And for what? To appease an old man who is bitter at past events… An old man determined to hang on to the top seat in the land… A man determined to show the world his racist attitude, his tyrannical rule and the zealousness with which he will perpetrate it all.
Mugabe is determined that the land grab will only be complete once each and every white farmer has been removed from the land. The fact that the people who now occupy and/or own the repossessed land are singularly incapable of producing anything of any value or quantity to sustain the nation has escaped him.
The land grab was and is racial – of that there is no doubt. That the firm grab is racially based as well, I have no doubt.
“John Worsley Worswick of Justice for Agriculture (JAG) said the tactics being used have changed in the last 9 months. The war veterans and settlers that were used to intimidate white farmers for the last 7 years have been replaced by military police, intelligence agents and members of the so-called Youth Brigades. Harassment has been so intense that several farmers have packed up and left in the last few weeks. Worswick described it as “Jambanja”, or violent takeovers, because there has been an open display and use of weapons.
White farmers are being arrested and then detained over the weekend in rural cells, for ignoring the September 30 deadline to vacate their properties. But Worswick sees it as a ploy to intimidate them into leaving. This way they will not bear witness to the brutality of ZANU PF's election tactics in the rural areas. Many have been summoned to appear at magistrate’s courts to be charged, and their cases are often postponed to a later date. At least 5 from Harare South are reported to have packed up and left in September alone.“
If you want to read a first-hand tale of a forced takeover of a farm in Zimbabwe, then read Eric Harrison’s “Jambanja” – now available as a Print On Demand book through Lulu.
Why is it that almost every move that Mugabe makes, political, domestic, economic or international, it is laced with hatred, denial and pure vindictiveness? Is this what he believes to be the way to run a country? Does he think that democracy is won through the barrel of a gun and maintained but the ever present threat of violence?
There was a time, not long after independence, when Zimbabwe, on the outside at least, appeared to be democratic. The economy worked and we overlooked racial slurs and references to ‘unrepentant Rhodesians’ – but it all changed when Mugabe’s government began to find themselves evermore sidelined as they failed to live up to their side of trade agreements, loans and finally, their pledge to the Zimbabwean community.
“Worswick confirmed that Brigadier-General Itayi Mujaji had used armed soldiers to evict farmer Charles Lock from his Karoi farm in Manicaland just 2 weeks ago, despite the fact that he has 5 court orders allowing him to stay. There is also an order for the arrest of General Mujaji and his wife Pauline for contempt of court. But all that was being ignored.
Lock cannot be accused of refusing to cooperate with government. He gave up his own 2 500-hectare farm, moved to his father-in-law’s farm and gave two-thirds of that farm away as well. He has said he will continue to fight in the courts.“
There was a time when I kept a register of all the court orders that the government ignore, all of the cases of violence that were not investigated and the deaths where government agents remain without prosecution. Perhaps it is time for me to revisit that list, update it and publish it.
“Worswick also confirmed reports that the ZANU PF spokesman Nathan Shamuyarira has been after Mount Carmel farm in Chegutu. The property is owned by Mike Campbell, a 73 year old commercial farmer who believes that leaving is giving up. Campbell has vowed to stay.“
What we have got to realise when analysing events in Zimbabwe, is that Mugabe does nothing in good faith. All of his actions, or the ordered actions of his agents, are intent on causing discomfort, unease and some sort of duplicity.
Why then, after 27 years of this practise, do we in the free world, accept his actions and do nothing to stop them?
Mugabe announced last November that he would be introducing the Zimbabwe Economic Development Strategy (ZEDS). The plan aimed to run between 2008 and 2010 sets out to “create wealth and reduce poverty among the indigenous people.” In what many dismissed as the ageing despot’s attempt to buy in favours, Mugabe said the strategy would have the backing of SADC and the civil and business society in Zimbabwe.“
Again, we see the reference to ‘indigenous people’ – are there not whites, coloureds and Indians that are indigenous to Zimbabwe? There are – but Mugabe ignores them, classing them as aliens.
And when it comes to deciding which ‘indigenous’ people are to be ‘enriched’ by his sweeping powers, it always seems to be the same lot – his loyalists, his lieutenants, those who have endeared themselves to his regime… Little do they know that one false move and they will be cast out of the inner sanctum – or befall an ‘accident’.
“On Wednesday, Judith Kateera, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Finance, expressed much optimism that Mugabe’s latest economic plan will end the country’s economic crisis, despite already having sanctioned more than half a dozen previous blueprints that all failed.
Of much interest, observers note, is how the government is willing to run the reform plan only once next year’s elections are out of the way. This suggests that the planned programme includes reforms that could be painful for ordinary Zimbabweans.
Analysts are however sceptical that the plan will deliver the goods where it’s other predecessors have faltered.“
Of course the plans are only due to run after next year’s election. It is a donkey and carrot affair. But what will happen is that should they win the election, the carrot will be eaten by those who carry the stick, who will then beat the donkey mercilessly with the stick!
The plans, even if they were workable, will never be instituted – because once the Mugabe government has effectively won the election, they are answerable to no one and the plan would be shelved, if not, disposed of.
“Journalist Kumbirai Mafunda said: “The strategy is unlikely to achieve much. At least it will further compound the evident differences between Reserve bank head Gideon Gono and Finance minister Samuel Mumbengegwi. At most, it will go down as another high-sounding nothing as none of the government’s plans have ever been followed through to the end.“
While the official rate remains fixed at 30,000 Zimbabwe dollars to 1 US, exporters and holders of foreign currency will now be allowed to invest their receipts at a once-off overnight rate of 800 per cent, the official Herald daily reported.
This gives an effective rate of 240,000:1, said the paper.
“Go figure.
“The governor did not say he was devaluing the dollar.“
When is the Zimbabwean government going to admit that there are no trade or economic sanctions against that country? That the only sanctions in place are targeted sanctions against Mugabe himself and he band of people he has surrounded himself with, pandering to his every need?
In its first detailed policy statement on sanctions, the central bank disputed claims from Britain and the United States that their “targeted sanctions” – like travel bans on top officials – did not hurt most Zimbabweans. The bank said that the country suffered from a broad range of “declared and undeclared” embargoes that hit Zimbabwe’s weakest the hardest.
The drying up of development project finance and hard currency loans from international institutions has had “far reaching effects on the majority of the people since 2000,” the report said.“
I would have thought that with all the intelligence (assumed or otherwise) that Mugabe has in his entourage they may have come up with a better try than this.
The people of Zimbabwe hurt because of the government fiscal policies – because of government operations like Murambatsvina and Operation Sunrise… because of the impending firm grab.
That is why the Zimbabweans hurt.
Gono would have us believe because company A in the USA doesn’t do business with company B in Harare, it prevents little Chipo in Kariba from eating.
What a load of rubbish!
Little Chipo in Kariba is not eating because the government ordered the confiscation of the white-owned farm that Chipo’s father worked on!
“Far from the claim that sanctions are… targeted on a few individuals, the reality on the ground is the tight grip of sanctions is being felt throughout the economy,” it said.
Western officials argue loan support, development aid and investment disappeared not because of sanctions but because of fears about levels of risk – worsened by corruption, mismanagement and threats of property seizures – and concern over Zimbabwe’s human rights record.
Pregnant women were unable to obtain medication when necessary and lives were lost through the absence of hard currency needed for medical equipment, drugs and food, the central bank said. “Three quarters of the equipment in hospitals in the city of Harare are not functional and this has had serious repercussions on the ordinary people,” it said.“
And the reason that the government doesn’t have the money to import the needed medications? Mugabe spent all that money on motorcycles, luxury sedans, and fighter aircraft!
“Britain, the former colonial power, the United States and other Western countries insist the sanctions they have applied to protest violations of human and democratic rights are travel bans on President Robert Mugabe and his inner circle and restrictions on their foreign-held bank accounts – measures designed not to affect the poor.“
I will always wonder at the ability that the Zimbabwean government has in denying any statement against them. Instead of proving that the charges are false or unsubstantiated, they insist on villifying whoever it was that made the charge in the first place.
After the Australian Prime Minister called Mugabe a “grubby dictator”, the Mugabe government villified the Australian continent, saying that they were all born of British convicts and continued to act like it.
Harare was reacting to reports by the British Press suggesting Premier Gordon Brown may have lost his campaign to prevent President Robert Mugabe from attending a Europe-Africa summit in Portugal in December and may instead push for a summit to discuss the worsening human rights situation in Zimbabwe.“
And, laughably, “Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said Harare would instead push to have Britain listed on the agenda of the European Union (EU)-Africa summit over its gross human rights violations against Zimbabweans during colonial times.
“It (human right violations) is none of his (Brown) business. Britain has committed several human rights violations, which we can enumerate. Britain or any other EU member should look at their own backyard first,” said Ndlovu, among the hawks in Mugabe’s government.“
It may be upsetting to some, but I publish here just one photo of the violations that Mugabe’s terrorists visited upon their own people in the Chimurenga. Was he or any of his people ever brought to book for this?
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Having read this article, I am now more determined than ever to update and publish the list of court orders ignored, uninvestigated or unprosecuted crime by the agents of Mugabe’s government.
Two Bulawayo men, Collin Siziba (23) and Misheck Gumbo (31), were shot dead in two separate incidents.
Siziba was the first to be shot by members of the Criminal Investigation Department's Vehicle Theft Squad, who said they suspected him of being an armed robber.“
And why were charges never made against the police officers that shot these men?
“The two boys were arrested and detained for three days and released at the instigation of the provincial commanders. The chefs are guarding against a situation whereby these officers will be prosecuted and found guilty. This will then mean that their families can successfully sue the organisation, so the decision is a financial rather than a legal one. I can safely tell you that nothing will happen to any of the concerned members,” said a senior police officer stationed at the Bulawayo provincial headquarters.
He identified the two junior police officers who killed Gumbo as Constables Zivago and Arutura, both of whom have two years service, while Assistant Inspector Frank Mbano allegedly killed Siziba.“
I note that subtle use of ‘boys’ when referring to the men who fired the fatal shots. A very effective way of winning reader sympathy, even though anyone in the police is an adult and therefore answerable for their own deeds.
That these deaths were performed in the guise of ‘police work’ is even more shocking.
Prosecute them, jail them and throw away the key!
“Police national spokesman, Chief Superintendent Oliver Mandipaka, confirmed that the three police officers were still active in their duties, claiming that police were still investigating the two cases.
Sources at police headquarters in Harare have revealed that more than 15 similar murders have been swept under the carpet.“
What happened to Wayne Bvudzijena who was the official police spokesman?
Take care.
‘debvhu
Source: http://thebeardedman.blogspot.com/2007/10/thursday-4th-october-2007.html