Comments on: Farms seized from white Zimbabweans lie in ruins

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Price controls: A scheme to seize Zimbabwe’s private sector?

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:46:19 +0000

[...] Price controls: A scheme to seize Zimbabwe’s private sector? By StatGuy Mugabe’s threat to nationalise "profiteering" firms supports the theory that the price reduction campaign is merely a means to take over the country’s private business sector in the same way that productive farms were seized and urban poor were driven out. THE current government drive against soaring prices is the same template of harassment, bullying and threats the State unleashed against commercial farmers in 2000 under the guise of land reform. [...]

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Can Zimbabwe’s economy get any worse? Just watch

Sun, 27 May 2007 23:27:56 +0000

[...] Can Zimbabwe’s economy get any worse? Just watch By StatGuy Zimbabwe’s economy nose-dived after President Robert Mugabe sanctioned brutal and illegal confiscation of white-owned farms for redistribution to cronies. The new proprietors proved abysmal failures as farmers, and Zimbabwe was quickly transformed from the bread basket of southern Africa into a basket case. The people were soon forced to rely on foreign charity for food. The economic free-fall into hyperinflation, mass unemployment, and widespread poverty is largely attributable to the land seizures. [...]

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » New UN development head ruined his own farm

Sun, 13 May 2007 22:52:12 +0000

[...] Farms seized from white Zimbabweans lie in ruins [...]

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Bishop Mwamba says Anglican statement not pro-Mugabe

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:46:34 +0000

[...] The most obvious reason for that interpretation is that the one issue on which the bishops express a political opinion is Zimbabwe’s anemic economy, for which the letter identifies only one cause: economic sanctions imposed by foreign nations. Mugabe’s disastrous policy of expropriating productive white-owned farms is not mentioned, nor the government’s price controls and subsidies that discourage productive economic activity, nor the central bank’s printing of vast quantities of currency fueling the world’s highest inflation rate. The bishops, like Robert Mugabe, blame the economic meltdown solely on foreigners. [...]

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Anglican bishops support Mugabe after Catholics call for his departure

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:48:09 +0000

[...] So, Mugabe’s ruination of Zimbabwe’s agricultural industry by seizing hugely productive white-owned farms that now lie wasted has nothing to do with that. [...]

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Mugabe to be appointed president for life?

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:33:38 +0000

[...] Farms seized from white Zimbabweans lie in ruins [...]

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Archbishop Pius Ncube: Mugabe’s most defiant opponent

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:55:43 +0000

[...] Abp Ncube told a London audience that Zimbabwe has the world’s highest AIDS rate, the world’s lowest life expectancy, and that the country’s overall death rate is higher than in Darfur or Iraq. The economy suffers from the fastest rate of decline and the highest inflation on the planet. Starvation, corruption, and violence are endemic. [...]

By: Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my comprehension.” — Robertson Davies » Mugabe postpones election, extends dictatorship term

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:51:55 +0000

[...] Farms seized from white Zimbabweans lie in ruins [...]