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Zimbabwean
18th August 2002 The world of Real Politik is a strange place, a land
where nothing is ever as it seems. There are obvious truths which are ignored,
and untruths accepted because they fit into a template that is observed through
rose tinted spectacles, and defies logic. One such example is that of the white commercial
farmers of Zimbabwe, where blatant racism and injustice has been viewed by the
worlds politicians via a distorting politically correct lens. This distortion of reality and common sense has its
roots in the scramble of the metropolitan powers of Europe, to get out of Africa
at almost any cost. For over 40 years, Europe, and the West generally, has been
indulging in self flagellation over a trendy, liberal, colonial guilt complex. This guilt complex has had the effect of making
reality invisible to most Western politicians, and has lead to the transfer of
huge sums of money to black Africa, for almost no economic or social gain
whatsoever. At the same time, it has blinded Western politicians to the savagery
and barbarism which has been a common thread of independent black (mis)rule in
Africa. One truth, which has had the bleeding heart liberals
and politicians of the West in denial for many decades, has been that truth
which dare not speak its name out loud, that unspeakable truth being, black
racism. The poison of political correctness will maintain that
only a caucasian person can be racist, this has long been the stick with which
black Africa has beaten the West, and which it has utilized for extorting huge
sums of aid money, most of which has ended up in the Swiss bank accounts of
various dictators and war lords. Where were the UN sanctions and international censure
when white Kenyans were dispossessed after independence? Where were they when
East African Asians were dispossessed and expelled from Kenya and Tanzania? And
later still, in 1976, where were they when the Ugandans under Idi Amin,
dispossessed and expelled the Asians from that country? Well, of course, these dispossessions and expulsions
were not racist, after all, a black person cannot be a racist? No, this was all
purely economic, and redressing the imbalances of colonial history. And of
course, the consequent economic collapse and social chaos, was another good
excuse to pass the begging bowl around again for more funding from the West, to
help correct this imbalance, and pad out the Swiss bank account. This long tradition of treating black Africa
differently when it comes to racism, has recently culminated in the dire
situation appertaining in Zimbabwe. Once again we see the same kind of
hyprocrisy, where despite the evidence, there is almost a pathological fear of
calling Mugabe and his odious regime racist, for by so doing, the cat will be
out of the bag, an obvious truth will be revealed, black Africans can be racist!
And that will demolish a major plank of political correctness, and may bring the
whole rotten ediface crashing down. Despite the land thefts by Mugabe and his paid thugs,
which have caused the collapse of commercial farming in Zimbabwe, we still hear
that the main reason for the impending famine in Zimbabwe is due to a lack of
rain! Are these people blind? Can they not see the full dams, with more than
enough water to irrigate crops? Can they not see that if farmers cannot produce
crops people will naturally go hungry? The poison of political correctness runs
so deep it causes mass hallucination and tunnel vision, where the illogical
becomes logical. There is only one reason for famine in Zimbabwe, and
that is down to a vicious and racist dictatorship, stealing the land of its
citizens in order to keep itself in power, with empty promises and race-hate
filled propaganda. Even when white Zimbabweans are denied their citizenship
rights and called foreigners in their own land, still the West does nothing,
apart from wring its hands and impose a few almost meaningless sanctions. And
countries such as Australia, at the time of writing, are still only thinking
about them! Nice one Cobber, much appreciated mate! And despite the evidence that is as plain as day,
still the worlds media when writing about the dreadful situation in Zimbabwe,
have to trot out the same tired old lies about the situation of the white
population, and the commercial farmers in particular. When do the worlds press ever mention that the Ndebele
have only been in the land a mere forty or so years longer than the white man?
When do they ever mention that the Shona who so loudly proclaim to be the
rightful owners of the land, themselves dispossessed the San people, the gentle
Bushmen whom they drove out and replaced? Leaving aside these historical aspects, how often do
the worlds media mention the following facts: 1. That 80% of all commercial farms have been
purchased after 1980, when the Republic of Zimbabwe was proclaimed. All these
farms, at sale, had to have a certificate of no interest for land resettlement
from the Mugabe – ZANU PF government. 2. That more than enough land was purchased after 1980
on a willing seller, willing buyer basis, for the ZANU PF resettlement
initiative, funded by the West. That most of this land only went as far as
Mugabe and his cronies, where it promptly fell into ruin and disuse. 3. That only 28% of all the land in Zimbabwe is owned
by commercial farmers of all races. And most importantly, that commercial
farming is the backbone of the Zimbabwean economy, and as such, these farms have
to be big. In any developed nation with a growing urban population, most of the
land will inevitably be owned by farmers who supply food to the conurbations. Why the emphasis on skin colour anyway by the media?
As mentioned above, most commercial farms were bought after 1980 on the open
market on commercial mortgauges from the banks. These farmers were making a
commitment to the nation, to provide it with jobs, forex and food. Where else in
the world have so few made such a difference to so many? Or at least they would
have done had not the corrupt government of Mugabe creamed off the forex to line
their own pockets, and lived like kings, whilst their peoples standard of living
went into a nose dive and the economy went wheels up. The only reason for the media to keep playing on the
fact that most commercial farmers are white, is that poison of political
correctness once again, and this time the bit which says that there is no such
thing as a white African. By playing on the skin colour, they excuse Mugabe’s
dispossession of a racial minority and aid and abet his oppression of this
minority. Would they be so accomodating if a political party in
the UK proclaimed third generation blacks to be foreigners and not British, and
withdrew their right to British citizenship? Would they be so accomodating to a
government in the UK which seized Asian corner shops because the land they were
on had belonged to whites at some point, despite the shops having been legally
bought on the free market? Would they be so casual if these dispossessed
third generation Asians, were beaten and abused and denied their citizenship rights? There is a definite contradiction here, a
contradiction based on the worst form of racism, which is all to familiar in
politically correct thinking. The contradiction seems to be for example, that it
is perfectly fine to be black and British, yet not to be white and Zimbabwean,
or indeed, white and African! All this Western hand wringing and duplicity has
caused so much suffering in Zimbabwe, not only to the oppressed and brutalized
white minority, but to anybody who does not tow the Mugabe and ZANU PF line.
Once again the West stands by, neutered, whilst an evil African tyrant
beggers his nation, and lives high on the hog at the same time. The civilized nations of the West should hang their
heads in abject shame, at such spineless and cynical acceptance of a brutal dictator of the worst
kind. A man who already has the blood of thousands of innocent Ndebele on his
hands from the genocide of the early 1980’s, another disgusting and barbaric
act overlooked by the West, because it happened in black Africa. When will the Western world finally throw off this
yoke of political correctness, and treat black African tyrants like any other,
instead of like naughty children, a racist attitude in itself? When will we begin to see these monsters
sitting in the dock at The Hague, answering for their crimes against humanity? Meanwhile, a once prosperous and advanced nation, now drowning in an AIDS epidemic, is collapsing into starvation, social chaos and economic ruin. Doubtless when this regime has gone, and a new crew are installed at the helm, the begging bowl will once again be out for foreign aid, and a few more numbered accounts will be opened in Swiss banks. Some things at least in Africa are more predictable than the rains. Embassy
of Rhodesia comment 18th August 2002 |
