Hear Hear guys! Posting on that atrocious site along with GAGR is only providing them with their ‘clicks’ - as I think Shasta? Said earlier. Time to opt out of being used-freezing them out is a better weapon!
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Hear Hear guys! Posting on that atrocious site along with GAGR is only providing them with their ‘clicks’ - as I think Shasta? Said earlier. Time to opt out of being used-freezing them out is a better weapon!
It sounds like this TWAS was born with a silver spork in his mouth.....
To quote Alan Jones TWAS reminds me of the female who was leading the ACTU
Strike me pink. TWAS just admitted to himself that he told a lie.Quote:
Actually I tell a lie.
An agreement to purchase back the franchise at a set price in the event of insolvency would be a put option.
Just one they had no opportunity to exercise.
Not quite. It became Zimbabwe when they got independence in 1980 and Mugabe initially had quite good relations with the minority white farmers as he knew he had to keep them on-board to prevent the chaos which happened in Mozambique when they got independence from Portugal ~5 years earlier.
The white farmers kept Zimbabwe going for quite some time, still producing far more food than Zimbabwe needed so they had a good export income. Land was slowly being sold into black ownership, with the majority of the farming capability going until the 1990s when a combination of strikes, the health system suffering because of the AIDS epidemic, and inflation caused unrest in the general population.
Then Mugabe couldn't hold the henchmen back and in 2000 there was the often violent seizing of land. Some of the white farmers were killed (many were allowed to escape, but could take nothing with them) but the black farm-workers were often murdered as 'collaborators'. This left the farms in the hands of Mugabe's army with no experienced workers. A severe drought in 2001 didn't help matters, either.
So only from ~2000 onwards has Zimbabwe been a net importer of food (I don't think it's recovered yet), but for the first half of Mugabe's reign it was still the bread-basket of Africa.
Mind you, the Matabele areas (west Zimbabwe) were terrorized by Mugabe and his henchmen almost from the moment of independence, largely because Mugabe's main challenger was a Matabele and Mugabe is from the Shona tribe. But Mugabe didn't target the farming areas as he knew that was killing the golden goose.
So Mugabe's not a nice man, and did start a tribal civil war, but he also kept the newly independent Zimbabwe going for a while before it descended into chaos.
Just curious, and off-topic, but did the beginning of Zimbabwe's slide coincide with Thabo Mbeki's rise to power?
The two certainly happened about the same time. Zimbabwe had problems before Mbeki took over from Mandela, however. It can be argued that Mbeki lacked the political skill and will to prevent Zimbabwe's problems, but I'm not sure if even Mandela could have prevented what was happening in Zimbabwe. Certainly Mbeki very much preferred a soft approach to Mugabe rather than condemning him for what was happening.
Is Grace Mugabe still wanted for not attending court sessions in South Africa?
Grace was granted Diplomatic immunity in South Africa.
In any other African country her husband would have been disemboweled by now, and forced to eat his own entrails.
Even that would have been too good for him.
WA should have laws like that. Two criminals I know at the aru would be good candidates.
ONLY TWO???
two is very long