White farmers flee for their lives

While the government warns of a white invasion, exactly the opposite is taking place

Zimbabwe's few remaining white farmers are either barricaded in their homes, waiting in a state of fear, or running for safety today. In scenes reminiscent of eight years ago, chanting gangs of so-called war veterans, encouraged by Zanu-PF propaganda, are threatening both their property and their lives.

The new wave of invasions began on Saturday, in Masvingo province, 160 kilometres south of Harare, when five farms came under attack, and a game lodge was occupied. It started shortly after Mugabe himself issued a warning that land must not be allowed to "slip back into the hands of whites."

Today it is thought that at least 20 farms have come under attack, leaving less than 200 in white hands. This compares to a total of 4,000 when the original attacks began at the turn of the century.

Meanwhile, as the country waits for a High Court ruling on the publication of the presidential election results, expected some time today, police have arrested polling officials from three different areas. They are accused of falsifying voting totals, to the detriment of Zanu-PF. The MDC have dismissed the allegations as yet another means of buying time.

MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, currently in South Africa, maintains that his victory in the parliamentary elections was clear and fair - and as a result, he has been making plans for the restoration of stability in the country when the MDC take over. And these plans do indeed include some white faces.

My sources tell me that the first priority of the new MDC government will be sort out the financial chaos that exists within the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, responsible for printing money and inducing the hyper-inflation that is wrecking the economy.

First, he will fire the present governor, Gideon Gono, and replace him temporarily with one of his deputies. Then, under an arrangement already in place with the German government, two German financial experts will fly in, as advisers to the new governor. They will be expected to stay for a period of six months.

Other MDC plans include changes in the leadership of the security forces, with new commanders for both the army and the air force, a new director-general of the CIO (the secret police) and a new commissioner-general of police. All these appointments will be on an "acting" basis only.

The current Chief Justice, George Chigausiku, will also be removed. But not immediately. He will have one last important duty to perform - to swear in Morgan Tsvangirai as the new President of Zimbabwe.

Comments

[Nicholas Folkes]

The black thugs of Mugabe are chasing whites off their farms again. Whites have bought their land over and over and that black Hitler - Mugabe wants them out while the West shamefully sits by and does nothing. Mugabe is brain dead and needs to be evicted by white Imperialist forces as the Africans will do nothing in order to reclaim their dignity. The whites deserve better than constant threats and turmoil. I have no sympathy for blacks in Zimbabwe but I do have sympathy for the suffering whites.

[CC]

Well you're clearly from the shallow end of the gene pool..

I like the way you wove a comparison of Mugabe with Hitler into a fascist-imperialist argument. Cool.

What was that term you used - 'brain dead'?

[Faith Blackwood]

Quite so CC., What began as an expression of sympathy from Mr Nicholas Folkes turned out to be a disparagement of all black people in Zimbabwe - even those who have lost their lives protecting the rights of white folks.

This is what happens when you have a dictatorship or any other form of imperialist action ( Britain did its Mugabe act in Africa in the way back when!)

People of all stripes and colors get hurt, brutally so: it might surprise Mr. Folkes to know that as a black person writing from Jamaica, I am appalled at the behaviour of Mugabe, we were well on the way to having our own little Zanu Party until the last general elections ousted them by a small margin - but thankfully, we have not been subjected to decades of abuse in quite the same way as the Zimbabweans...

You ought to be ashamed of the latent racism in your statement. I too am sorry for the white farmers...because I hate injustice, behind whatever mask it chooses to hide, black or white.

[David Ben-Ariel]

Shame on the White Israelite Western world that has abandoned our White Israelite brethren who are besieged in raped Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ruins) and looted South Africa.

May we repent and restore proper rule, having learned our lessons, so help us God.

[S.K.]

When you drove the blacks from the land in the 1800's why didnt the world do anything? We were brutally robbed of our land and livestock just to feed the greed of Europeans . I guess slavery wasn’t enough you just had to come in and stay and rape. Now all Mugabe is saying is you have over-stayed , give us back our land and return to your ancestor's cold home in Europe and suddenly the world has a problem with that.. Typical racist Colonists

[David Ben-Ariel]

Our Great Creator God owns all the Earth and He had predetermined Rhodesia to be part of the White Israelite inheritance. It was not owned by any of the primitive and feuding Black African squatter tribes who have proven they don't know how to rule themselves or others.
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[S.K.]

Great way to use the bible as a reference to justify the brutality of colonialism and the racial tyranny that came with it. If I remember correctly the Israelites were slaves in a foreign land meaning Rhodesians are histories wealthiest slaves with no reason of an Exodus.. wow ….Just face it your forefathers stole someone’s house and gave you the inheritance now you are a victim of your fathers greed and evil as all your wealth and life is tied in the that stolen land. Did it never occur to you that one day the Africans are going to reclaim it? Or did Granddad never explain the killing, brutality and trickery against the native Africans for your families wealth? I do with you Mr “Israelite”.

[Nicholas Folkes]

I agree with David Ben-Ariel. He is right to say, " those squatter tribes can not rule themselves". The proof is in the pudding and the blacks can't organise anything; 100,000 inflation, 80% unemployment, 37 life expectancy for females and 34 years for males in Zimbabwe, what a stoopid bunch of gorillas!!

To brain dead "CC", my gene pool increases the IQ of the world and your black gene pool sucks it dry. I will give credit where credit is due but just look at Africa? Is it better off now or 40 years ago under white rule? Blacks are savages just look at Africa.

S.K. we have nearly all left your beloved toilet - Africa and what a mess! The reality is that if the white man doesn't guide the blacks chaos and famine will follow. By the way would you pls. take the welfare receipient blacks of Europe and America and create another Liberia. The whites were good to the blacks but unfortunately the blacks don't have the brains to progress. Look around and see your promised land, Oh what a land of progress.

Afrocentrics should check up on their history and realise that the blacks were fighting on a tribal basis before the Brits arrives. Even the slave trade was started by the Arabs and still exists today all over Africa. Where are the potato heads of African descent protesting against the crimes blacks perpetrate against themselves??

[CC]

Civilised and rational people inform themselves about facts and explore all other avenues before violence is ever proposed.

By the way, I'm white, half-Zimbabwean, and grew up in Africa.

I wouldn't normally dignify this nonsense, but at the moment your views could be genuinely damaging. Zimbabwe does not need you or people like you.

[citizen]

hahahahaha same reason bush brown and other racist white have so much desire to oust Mugabe , they don't care about the blacks just that the whites must own 80% of the land and try to recolonize Zimbabwe but Mugabe is too smart to allow white rule again he knows the whites formulated the puppet opposition to oust Mugabe but they lost and the west actually dared asked for help from mbeki ,come on white people blacks aint stupid dot forget apartheid is still behind mbekis mind.they would like to invade Zimbabwe but then the international community will criticize them about Sudan dr congo , Somalia i wonder if it were whites the arabs in darfur were killing if they would have called for immediate genocide etc so whites u have failed to oust Mugabe and leave Zimbabwe for true Africans.they fell they have gotten off free from the atrocities of slavery and genocide ,yes from man but never from god remember that god is not partial.

[Malcolm non-X]

cITIZEN SAID, " come on white people blacks aint stupid dot forget apartheid is still behind mbekis mind".

"BLACKS AINT STOOPID"?? Yes, they are. They are that stupid that they would live in total squalor and still support a gorilla like Mugabe. If Africans were even average in intelligence they would realise that 'white rule' is always better than kaffir rule.

Q.What do you get when you cross a gorilla with Mugabe??

A. A dumb gorilla.

[Capitol Inflow]

I don't see how Zimbabwe is better off after independence. Prior to Indenpendence, Zimbabwe had the finest telephone system, roads, water and sewage systems in Africa. Trains ran on time, crime was low, tonnes of food stuff was being exported bringing in foreign capitol. Property rights were respected. People were educated, fed and safe. Now everybody can vote, but not without being threatened, and in the end does the vote matter? Crime is rampant. Nobody is safe. Property rights don't matter and banks are rightfully afraid to invest in the country. We repair nothing and slaughter everything. But we can vote! Was Ian Smith right?

[Bubba Boy]

"Capital Inflow" - you are right on the money, you couldn't have said it better.

Do the Africans want the vote or economic progress? They have choosen to vote and what a mess their continent is in....a baboon could have done a better job.

Kick all the whites off their land and starve. The next tragedy in this mess is the famine that will soon follow. The blacks are a tragedy!

[Scatterling]

Yes, the famine and then the next great African tradition - the begging bowl sent to the European run nations.

[Nageelab]

Thankfully the stupidity of all human races is coming to a close
Black,White,Yellow, all races with their own forms of idiotic racism/nationalism. The human species as we know it is obsolete, together with the recent advances in computer science,nanotechnology,bioengineering,genetics and robotics...we are on the cusp of the creation of a new race, a blend of biology/mechanics/electronics...that recognizes the importance of no race, no religion, no nation, no god, no politics, and that as a more logical, stable/intelligent and reasonable species, is more interested in perhaps repairing the damage done to the earth by the old human race; and in time controlling and fostering the remaining 'old' human race towards it's ultimate extinction.

So to all the stupid Whites and Blacks, and Yellows and catholics and muslims, and any religious or political fanatics...go at it and each other, have fun; hating and killing each other, your party is over soon

Rise of the Machine

[Michael]

Ok, lets take this bit by bit before we get back on topic.

Nicholas Folkes, David Ben Ariel, citizen ..... grow up and stop being a bunch of racist morons.

C.C., Capitol Inflow ..... you guys/girls have the right idea

Nageelab ..... go back to sleep before you join the racist morons on their tirade

The whole fact of the matter in this is that Mugabe (the alleged human being) is doing exactly the same thing as he claimed he was fighting against in the 70s, he is victimising a section of the Zimbabwean people ..... the difference between him and the Rhodesians is that while he is doing it for nothing more than a fat bank account, uncaring of who he steps on in the process, the Rhodesians were building a nation (admittedly not along ideal lines, but nowhere near to the scale of atrocity we see in Zimbabwe) and believed in what they were doing.

At the moment, the loudest voice that can be heard crying 'Racism' is the one that is most guilty of the crime.

[ahmed_bakayoko]

i'am a west african and want to get in contact with a white farmer in distress for agricultural paetnership

[ahmed bakayoko]

i'am awest african and want to get in contact with a white farmer in distress

[Lucy]

I think you all missing the point. this isn't about race this is about a dictator who is trying to stay in power at any cost. Be it his people starving lack of services or anything else. I'm just if not more outraged that he is killing people of his own race. People he said he would look after and who admired him.

[TinaValentine33]

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[Finn]

How to contact with a white farmer in distress?

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[ctrytoo]

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My sources tell me that the first priority of the new MDC government will be sort out the financial chaos that exists within the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.

[lorna]

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Mind Yami: let others do the things he did not want to do, must not be forced. Think about other people's point of view standing on their own if encountered such a situation would be more embarrassing than others. Not forget the old saying: Do unto others, do not impose on othe