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Originally Posted by crucifissio
the problem with zimbabwe was the wrong people getting control of the seized land...when you hold a region in slavery for centuries you deprive the local population of centuries of knowledge and wealth accumulation and this inevitably leads to weak political and social structures when the oppressors get thrown out...
it will take them centuries to recover but they will get there eventually...recovery does not start with white farmers getting to keep the best agricultural land that they seized during the centuries of robbery while black men are landless...
the white man in a nutshell: "if only those pesky africans would remain in africa and just die and not want their own land either but leave it to the white man...and just die"  |
The situation is a lot more complex.
This farmland did not exist before the white settlers created it from bush and scrub.
It is not as though the local blacks were running industrial intensive farming operations and had their land stolen. Much of the land was uninhabited before white settlement, and where there were existing people they lived a semi-nomadic subsistence existence.
However if you have ever been to South Africa and witnessed how millions of blacks live, then you would agree that some re-allocation of natural resources needs to take place.
But this plan is wrong on many levels, and it is unlikely to achieve anything other than a destruction of asset value and an economic catastrophe.
Very sad.