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Comment for 2007
13th January 2007 Well another new year has sprung, and the suffering goes on in Zimbabwe.
It is simply amazing how long the world can tolerate a vicious tyrant,
who terrorizes and abuses his own people. I guess in the ugly and murky
world of 'real politik', a bankrupt banana republic with no oil
reserves just doesn't appear on the worlds radar, especially when that
country is in Africa. It seems all too easy for the world to tolerate
murder, mayhem and chaos when it occurs in Africa. Of course, all the
ills and evils of Africa are the fault of colonialism and the white man,
so we are told by the left liberal elite. They conveniently forget that
it was the tiny number of white commercial farmers of Zimbabwe, who have
been feeding the nation and its neighbours for decades. From this
poisonous liberal doctrine comes the Western worlds excuses for the
never ending troubles of Africa, and for their inaction over the
displacement, murder and dispossession of white Africans. In our first media report for 2007, in the Zimbabwe section of our
website, we see a prime example of the bull coming out of Mugabe's
ugly regime. The few remaining white commercial farmers are going to be
allowed to stay on their land until after the summer harvests are in,
then it will be taken from them. They expect this tiny band of farmers
to bail them out of a massive food shortage in 2007, and then be
dispossessed and vilified. It just goes to show the utter contempt the
Zimbabwean government has for its white citizens, who are all too often,
even being denied citizenship on the grounds of their race alone. Doubtless when these remaining commercial farmers have their land seized,
they will be approached by surrounding African nations who fully
recognise that the white commercial farmers of Zimbabwe are the best in
the world. They know that these farmers could be a huge boon for their
economies, and their agricultural expertise would help to ensure food
security for those nations. Food security is the basic responsibility of
any government to its citizens, and yet it is a responsibility totally
disregarded by Mugabe's government, as its senior ministers grab the
country's remaining resources for their own personal gain. So will there be any improvement in 2007? The short answer is no. Even if
Mugabe expires, ZANU PF will fight tooth and nail to stay in power and
suck the economy dry. Even if they are pushed from power by the MDC, and
nothing short of mass civil action by the people will do that, the MDC
itself will splinter into its component elements, all of whom will be
jockying to get their noses in the trough. Only a huge oil strike would
bring Zimbabwe up as a strong blip on the worlds radar and focus
attention on that devastated country. But even that may not tempt the
world to do the right thing. Zimbabwe has already lost its major asset, the hardworking commercial
farmers who were the bedrock of the economy. Whilst the economies of
neighbouring states have been bolstered by the efforts of the displaced
farmers, Zimbabwe itself will probably never again achieve self
sufficiency in food production, let alone become a mass exporter of
grain to other nations. It is an outrage that the world could stand by
and watch the first world economy that existed in 1980, decimated and
pillaged until it became the dysfunctional, bankrupt husk of a state it
is today. The world should collectively hang its head in abject shame. Markus de Beaufort |
