We repeat below an article which depicts the latest situation in Zimbabwe, with suitable comment beneath:
Eddie Cross
ECONOMIST Eddie Cross has claimed that the tightening economic situation in Zimbabwe has triggered a mass exodus of Zimbabweans into South Africa.
In an article titled The deepening crisis in Zimbabwe, Cross has estimated that up to 5 000 people a day are now crossing the country’s southern border into South Africa, a number he said could translate to more than 40 000 a week or two million people by the end of this year. “Some will return but the majority will stay and seek new lives. Can South Africa take such an additional burden at this time? I think not,” said Cross.
Cross, who is also the Movement for Democratic Change Member of Parliament for Bulawayo South, has blamed the mass exodus into South Africa, from where only months ago Zimbabwean were fleeing from xenophobia attacks, on Zimbabwe’s worsening economic situation. “Every aspect of life is affected by the economy and how it is performing. Despite the statements by the pundits, our economy has resumed the downwards slide that characterized the economy from 1997 to 2008.
Inflows to State coffers have shrunk and suddenly there is no money in the markets. Companies are retrenching staff or simply winding up their affairs.
Human flight has resumed with a vengeance into any country that will have our economic refugees.
The agricultural sector is in dire straits and will contract again this year – reflecting a continuous and rapid decline in output and activity since the farm invasions began in 2000. This year the situation is compounded by a very poor season and a nationwide shortage of spending power. Unlike 2008, the shops are full of everything you might desire or need. But this time people simply do not have the money to buy what they see in the stores. Real hunger and deprivation is now common in all rural districts,” said cross.
Cross warned that “Company closures will accelerate”, while investor sentiment will continue to influence incoming investment. “The consequences will be fully established by year end – hospitals unable to function except as mortuaries and schools becoming day care centres for young people who will not get an education. The Diaspora will strive to keep their extended families fed but there will be little money left over for anything else,” noted Cross.
Yet – amidst this humanitarian crisis- psychopath Mugabe and his racist vindictive “Africanized” troop still are evicting white food-producing farmers.
Now this is a particular kind of stupidity – the country now facing its worst humanitarian food crisis in its history is now plunging the crisis to new levels. The ZANU-PF regime yesterday listed 23 white-owned commercial farms it has targeted for confiscation as government moves to take over all the remaining white-owned farms. The announcement was made in a State newspaper and listed the identities of the farms earmarked for seizure.
“It is hereby notified that the minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement acquires for and on behalf of the State, the land identified and described in the schedule for purposes of agriculture settlement under Section 72 (2) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the notice said. “Further take notice that the ownership of the acquired land with full title therein vested in the State is with effect from the date of publication of this notice in the Government Gazette.”
Officials said the deadline would allow new black owners of the land enough time to prepare and plant for the new crop season, which should start in October. White farmers defying the order to leave their land face up to two years in jail.
Comment: None of the above should surprise the reader. What is not so apparent, excepting to those who consider the content of the news, is that this situation receives little comment in the Western media. Any news which hints, however obliquely, that Zimbabwe and other African states might have fared rather better under European administration is either censored or curtailed.
Rhodesia – before it became Zimbabwe – with its efficient farms and economy, was a bread basket for Africa, despite international sanctions. Not only could it feed itself but its produce was exported widely. Zimbabwe is a basket case that relies on international charity and many of its people are starving.
Those who flee to South Africa will find temporary respite. In 20 years’ time, the situation there will have deteriorated. Already, the most bestial criminality is being perpetrated against European farmers in the Transvaal, Orange Free State and elsewhere. The Police frequently turn a blind eye.
Farmers and their families are being murdered and dispossessed. Their successors have reduced productive farms to the bush within three years of possession. South African food production is declining.
Simultaneously, South African politicians, who – like their Zimbabwean counterparts – cannot help themselves in their appeal to the lowest common denominator, chant slogans such as ‘one settlor one bullet’.
There are 30,000 murders a year in South Africa. This goes unreported in the same media that castigated, in unison and in wailing headlines, the previous regime for occasional excesses in its struggle against externally funded Marxist terrorist elements.
Orwellian political-correctness demands that those who are aware of what has occurred in Zimbabwe and elsewhere censor their own thought processes. This is yet another symptom of the collapse of the West and the propaganda war waged against the minds of, otherwise, intelligent people.
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As if thats not enough. How much foreign aid does the scumbag Mugabe get from Britain, to line his own pockets ? Whites kept the country afloat, the native is simply incapable of this. The media are the ones to be suspicious of, I would not trust them for a second, especiallyabout anything to do with Africa or what they like to call racism.
(party member)How could they ever admit that farming and agriculture would be run more successfully under whites..? when their whole agenda is a complete distortion about the nature of culture(it’s only ”nurture” in their book) Their lies are absurd myths…. but as long as you conform/consume…
Perhaps those Nationalist groups that campaign for the return of the old colonies will now have to accept that as sad as it is, they are consigned to the dustbin of history gone forever thanks to the betrayal of the British government traitors .
As far as the twenty first century has begun .It will go down as the biggest in population movements since time began. Why is it so. Well its simple really . once one illegal gets accepted without a passport. Then it sends out a message to every country in the third world .
And we keep voting for it every time. And now they show us heart rending pictures of little toddlers washed up on Kos , after leaving a Turkish port, in an unsafe boat . Turkey the same that wants into the EU. but is now prepared to push the overloaded boats out into the Med, Regardless of the consequences. And we will pick up the bill. Its a kind of wretched blackmail, showing those poor lifeless boys . But in my view it was Turkey that allowed them to drown .
So while Robert Mugabe sends out his gangs of brutes to terrorise and kill our people… the people who built their infrastructure and economy, which the violent thugs are rapidly dismantling in the name of ”reposession”
…We, on the other hand, are paying for and proliferating his people in our little island, with a never ending succession of grovelling twits at their beck and call.
As Enoch so insightfully said, ”We must be mad, literally mad.”
The Whites didn’t keep that country afloat William .they made it a powerhouse economy .Exporting billions of tons of food stuffs and tobacco. But like you say .the slightest mention of that truth, sends the lefties into a shrieking frenzy.
( Party Official ) Well said baz4545. RHODESIA ( TO ME MARXIST ZIMBABWE DOES NOT EXIST ) WAS PART OF THE ‘ BREAD BASKET OF AFRICA ‘. The other part was South Africa !
According to the UK Department for International Development we give US$37 million to Zimbabwe to improve education. “Our goal is to encourage a peaceful, democratic society where the rule of law and human rights are adhered to, laying the foundations for long term sustainable development”. Dream on.