The Truth About Mugabe's Violent Land Grabs (1998) 

You are lying

@@tauraimubaiwa4421no I am definitely not. My uncle was paid out for a farm in 1984 with funds provided by the British government. The farm was given to a senior Zanu pf official.

Did you own land in Britain?

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You talking like a baby . What make a country? How can a foreigners own a land in Africa , let me ask you did any African person own land in England or in Europe?

U from india also watch out soon u india will go back to ur country

Alot! He returned their land to them.

Yup

Yup. He's not too bright

Yup hes likely never rotated his crops, fertilized or fortified the soil with anything, and corn may very well be a bad choice for that soil.

Because that farmer is a Houtkop!

The neighbour must help him or teach him the ropes, that’s wat the reconciliation is for. We can’t change the mistakes of the past but we can make up for it.

Who is begging

Anyone with skills really they don't have to be white necessarily

No they aren't lmao

Never

​In the year 2024 many moron hahahaha@@maxwelltafirenyika2614

High crime rate where?

​@@tauraimubaiwa4421 if u don't know u don't know

Its Communism..... Its never worked anywhere its been tried....

Still better than being ruled by whites lol crime rate in Zimbabwe is lower than Britain fam

@@Seth-MAD-manyou haven’t visited other countries

That's a completely different story . Black people in Europe were legally born there while the White people in Africa stole the land. You can't compare oranges with apples

@@cheese-nipples-1728 The white farmers are born there. The farms are purchased. Most of the lands were empty fields. Just because a white man decided to create a state doesnt mean uts theft. What of black tribes claimed empty fields, would that be theft as well?

@@cheese-nipples-1728 Get out of Europe, Europe for the Europeans

@@cheese-nipples-1728 i think africans should leave europe, its our land after all.

​@@Najaf-gb3meThe land was occupied by native tribes that were kicked of there land and settled into settlements called bantustans. And black people in Europe were taken there as slaves, they didn't go there willingly. Whites forced themselves into Africa looted and killed our people and then pretending like they helped Africans while there stealing resources

Opposite how, please enlight me.

@@Letthrtruthbetold5328 conduct your fanning campaign elsewhere.

@@echohunter4199 Just as i thought thank you.

The eyes of a realist........well done Kathy.

EXACTLY... so take the remaining land from the people who know how to properly operate it, and let the squatters that have ruined their own land take it over... sounds like a great idea! When they're starving they'll have nobody to blame but themselves! They'll deserve no sympathy either! OL J R :)

Soil erosion was only brought by rapacious ignorant white professors

White people should go back and farm in Europe, please leave Africans Alone!

@@lukestrawwalker It's our land

Thanks to policy of dictatorship

Actually, the newly resettled farmers are doing quite well on their ancestral lands. The economy was under 23 years of US economic sanctions. That's the only reason it wasn't doing as well....but even with the sanctions, Zimbabwe is better than most African countries.

@@lawrencestoke Actually, the country remains a net importer of food. Actually the poorer rural areas are far worse off and actually the education standards have dropped to illiterate over the past 20 years in most of the smaller schools.. Harare looks like a dump! The beautiful big indigenous trees along the road sides have been hacked down for charcoal, and the countries business is dominated by illegal trade in diamonds and gold and other precious metals, mainly by the political ZANU elite… Not sure which Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 you are talking about. Oh and they have destroyed their currency too in the process. If you steal from your citizens and do bad things then you get sanctioned by other economies. That’s how the real world works

​@@lawrencestoke the sanctions were put in place on the rhodisha government. Lifted with majority rule.

The leaders ARE the problem. Everywhere. If only our governments didn't exist, neither would the majority of our problems. Worldwide. I just posted about this myself, going down the RABBIT HOLE, asking the same question: *why do you think AFRICA has to remain poor? Why do you think Kadaffi from Lybia had to go?* I give you an example (one of my writings) Once upon a time, there was a plan to counter the injustice that takes place in the export, selling raw material (platinum, manganese, gold..) to the world, from Africa. Once it’s mined they are not processed in Africa, they are sent to rich countries for processing and creation of products. The finished products are then sold back to Africa at exuberant prices and the governments in AFRICA pay heavy TAXES on these same products that were mined in AFRICA the begin with. There was a plan to counter this by the man named Moammar Kaddafi from Lybia. He planned to create a Central Bank of Africa, with one currency, backed by the natural raw resources in AFRICA. THAT, WAS REVOLUTIONARY. Because the British pound, the Dollar, the Chinese yuan, the Japanese yen are not backed by anything. .. and if this had gone through, Kadaffi’s plan, the standard of living of the people in the rich Western countries would have dropped like a rock. That, is why Kadaffi had to go. Keeping AFRICA in DEBT. This is just one example out of a million. Like the Ghanian President pointed it out: *"Why is it that no matter how generous the cherity Africa stays poor?" - President of Ghana.* Another important player in this fight is the Indian Ecologist, *Dr. Vandana Shiva.* Her 3 minute video on WORLD HUNGER in Africa and India is phenomenal. I cried. Look it up here on YT. Many of us are asking the same question. *How come that the people who are actually working on the fields, producing the food, are going hungry?* It's messed up everywhere.. there are good people everywhere who are fighting the good fight and stand for fairness (not hatred and carrying on with the war). Many white folks opposed the APARTHEID too, but couldn't do anything while they were in power. Look up MANDELA's life - the old videos - you can see how many was on his side and they knew back then that it'd create unimaginable, notorious problems for generations to come. ... I could go on but it's just a failure NOT to notice that it's not us, the people (white or black or Indian or Asian) are the problem, but our governing apparatus. What will it take that ppl wake up? I am even afraid to ask these days, xx..

no capital, no means of production. Even if you have a gold mine if you only have a shovel you can only dig up enough nuggets to feed yourself, if you had an excavator you could dig up enough to feed the village.

Breeding like rabbits and expecting everything to be okay

The good leaders of Africa are always assassinated and/or undermined if they are not killed so that they and their countries, can never reach their potential

@@Alfaomegabravo its not about means of production it's about value added chains. Mining copper doesn't do much. Making copper pipes makes more money

Started off well though. Tony Blair changed it. Thatcher was great for zimbabwe

Yea White man Making Zimbabwe What a joke Look at Angola and South Africa and Namibia what has those countrys become after White supported Rulers?

But is is one of the safest countries in Africa and a very pleasant place to be a Tourist or work - Zimbabweans are nice people.

Speak for yourself mate…Mugabe was and still a hero to many Zimbabweans,Africans and black people all over the world.

I agree but he didn't at the start. Tony Blair removed aid that was a major issue. Both sides were wrong

Yes it will, only if you accept to emancipate yourself from the white man's mentality of development and visualize life as a true African. Mugabe was right by all standards.

No one does its just you.

In your dreams, sweetie.

Fuck Rhodesia they lost the war

TRUE STORY WHO WAS IN TURKEY BEFORE THE TURKS ARRIVED? WHO OCCUPIED THE LAND IN TEXAS BEFORE THE APACHE MOVED IN? THE HUMAN STORY IS A STORY OF EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION

Well Bantus will get the land they want. Under it.

So glad someone mentioned it, for this the grim future for South Africa under Julius Malema's rule... Wish people would wake-up ad smell the roses.

Malema is a criminal and will never be president of SA

Land expropriation without compensation in our lifetime, we must nationalize the mines resources, the banks and property as a whole. No Zimbabwe end result of land grab will shake us. Lizobuya lelizwe

@@gatshenindlovu8224 If we nationalise everything and then proceed to get sanctioned, who will we sell our minerals too? Look at who most of our exports go to, look at how much we import, look at what our main exports are. No country produces all of the products it consumes, its impractical. If you think the Chinese or BRICS as a whole would buy majority of our exports, you are mistaken. This country's economy would collapse and in the chaos we'd end up fighting amongst ourselves. Also after watching the biggest SOE's, absolutely fall apart over the past 30 years, Do you really think that putting the majority of our economy under the control of the government, is a good idea?

We can never starve you are just dreaming i live here i never straved ever we live a decent life

​@@kevinjaylow4147 😂

@@kevinjaylow4147 Then why are thousands of Zim citizens fleeing to South Africa? If you ask those people (who come into SA mostly illegally), they say there are no jobs and no future in Zim!

@@robert8552 you are just silly and dont worry about immigration South Africa supposed to fix it we fix it in the region as long they dont run to Europe which no one does

@@kevinjaylow4147 commie alert

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Sinclair was occupying stolen land and he got evicted rightfully so

@@shingitheduke Sinclair was working a farm with his knowledge that fed Zimbabweans. Mugabe was not interested in having Zimbabweans continue to eat. If he did, then he would've paid Sinclair to teach modern farming methods to them so that they could keep the land productive. Do not defend the actions of a hero-turned-tyrant. A hero-turned-tyrant is still a tyrant.

@@SpaceMarine500 Being in possession of stolen land makes Sinclair a criminal regardless of how many Zimbabweans he supposedly fed. Let’s not pretend he was doing this for the benefit of Zimbabweans. He and his family did this to enrich themselves and live lavish lifestyles.

@@shingithedukeThe land came in possession of the Sinclairs in exchange of money under a completely different state with a completely different constitution. Calling him a criminal solves nothing if he's one of the few in the country with knowledge of modern farming. And you cannot sit and arrogantly ignore the obvious. It's his farming produce that went to the markets in Zimbabwe and taking his productivity out just like that without having him take part in giving out training was just one of the many countless decisions in the same vein that led to crippling food shortages. Why? Because the new owners had no idea how to make use of the land for quality farming. It's as simple as that.

@@SpaceMarine500 if someone steals a car and sells it to you, it only means you bought a stolen car and the car rightfully belongs to the person who it was initially stolen from, not you. Same principle applies to Sinclair, the fact that he was evicted was an act of justice. He may have had a wealth of knowledge in modern farming but that doesn’t excuse the crimes inflicted upon native Zimbabweans. That’s like saying I’m a crook but because some people mainly me, my family and descendants, benefit from my crimes we should just forget about the initial crime. No. They did not need Sinclair or whichever thief forced them off the land to begin with, they would made relevant adjustments through the years to cope with demand.

You shouldn't. You have a beautiful country, and a well educated population which will take you far. The generations before you had to make enormous sacrifices to free the country of direct colonial rule. Now it's your turn to take the baton and make the future even brighter for the coming generations.

Its okay you aren't ethnically Zimbabwe you can go back to where ever you came from no need for worrying about things which aren't yours.

Hate sanctions. This is our land, they sanction us if we try to own it ourselves. They want it to them selves

I agree with you.

@@tvs9978 With 90% unemployment and inflation getting back to Weiner levels nice words will not feed the people.

Well land in Africa was taken by colonisers for free

@@chiyenyumba7135 And land in Africa was taken by Bantu from the Khoi for free. Nobody today can be held responsible. I owe you just as little as you owe me.

@@olsaffa7679 🤣🤣is 🤣🤣 that's the twisted story peddled by the Dutch descendents.... We are waiting to here from the Khoisan themselves. Khoisas and Bantu are Africans and Dutch are not..... We take everything with a pinch of salt including the bible story.... Africa is woke we really don't care about how europeans want to tell this or the other story. Africa is sweet however it comes with the little inconvenience of the African.

@@olsaffa7679 I don't owe you anything at all. I will never give into questioning my African heritage or have to explain it. No one in Europe is having to explain their European heritage to anyone. Let Africans be.

I am white married to black and he said he hates to be called African American … he was born in America so he is simply American. I don’t understand why people do stuff like that .. to make blacks have to over explain themselves - sometimes even forcing them to incorrectly say they’re African American. Ugh.

Government should have used smart taxation to buy land and educate and assist black people to become successful commercial farmers. However , it's too late for that now and Zim will continue to struggle for decades to come.

Thats why they are begging for whites to come back

@@rockrabbit253 Why are you so interested? Leaves us to struggle on our own. We don't need your advice especially not in the RU-vid comments section💀

@@KorpusV6 I live in South Africa so I have a direct interest. If you had taken my advice it would have saved Zimbabweans a lot of problems. But it's stupid attitudes like yours that cause people a lot of suffering.

The main problem here is 1 they where not actually white just white passing. 2 their lands you make me laugh.

That's the dumbest shit I ever read. You think Jews in Germany "deserved" the nazi party govt?

@Donnell Okafor they have a lot of talented people. My late father came from there in the 60s on a scholarship to get his masters at New York University

@Donnell Okafor Yes exactly. High educational standards is the only solution to ensuring that a good government is appointed. There is no substitute for educated decisions when it comes to voting. In other words voting with your head - not your heart. Otherwise it's just a gamble where you have little chance of appointing the right people to run the country.

@Donnell Okafor yes. Long Island.

@Donnell Okafor I've been to ATL (for work) nice accents, Virginia and Washington DC (I'd that's considered the south.)

There is no solution when people think they are entailed to something because of the colour of their skin.

Really? White people trying to rewrite history also say slavery wasn't bad! You all need to give up the lying!

@@michaelochoa5531 you devil

@@michaelochoa5531 shame on you, you are too racist

they brought us white women to use and abuse ,and it stiol goes on today

@@michaelochoa5531 You obviously don't know History, but keep lying to yourself if it makes you feel better! One thing for sure, the "privilege" stole most of what they have, still not satisfied and their descendants can't find no rest or peace!

still better than Rhodesia

​@@yankiefrenz1367 sadly, that is clearly highly debatable. As many conversations about the current state of Zim, especially on the internet, often show.

@@arkuisproperganda

A typical comment of a THIEF.

It has nothing to do with the fact the west has continued to exploit their former colonies post independent? Can you lot be any more hypocritical? Europe relies on exploiting African countries & if they cannot do so, you lot can revert to the dark ages. But you're here taking the moral high ground. 🙄

@@SIZA3 In this world you have to do things for yourself...eat or be eaten...why can't Africa be self-sufficient? Be rid of Europe ? You hate the West being powerful but only because you are weak.

They is poverty in the west too. The problem is that we have a European black tribe that does not get on with us but is around us. The plantation did not do well and they can’t take them back. It’s like Ireland in Africa. All this was done to make Scotland stronger before the collapse of the empire which began in Africa by trading slaves in the 1600s and gold. It was independent then they say , so it is this day...very. It is just not as wealthy as it was a century ago...and no Mary the queen.

Everyone doubted china look at it now

Government officials doing great, no complaints.

The land is the economy

@@kesseltonnkosi Why are there millions of Zimbabweans in South Africa then? They should be prosperous because of the land.

@@alfredphamotse1316 Subsistence farming in Africa has killed millions because of starvation over the years. You see a malnutrition or starvation African child on Western TV, you see the result of either war or subsistence farming and drought.

@@kesseltonnkosi The land used to be the economy hundreds of years ago. That's why people mostly fought wars for land. Today land is only a very small part of the economy. Destroying the bulk of the economy for land makes no sense.

@@alfredphamotse1316 Sorry but that's what you have been told to think. All Africa's warring doesn't have "the White Man" to blame. Africans have been warring and raiding each other for cattle from the time cattle husbandry was introduced from the Arabian Peninsula. Africans were taking Africans to sell as slaves before any "terrible White Man" used slaves in the Americas. Africans are as much human as everyone else. Humans always want more and be more than the next guy. The only thing that prevented us from suicide as a species is imho religions. It caused lots of harm too but I think we would have been even worse off without it. Conclusion: forget about blaming the white man and in a decade or two the yellow man. Rather drop the racism.

Look at how mugabas son is spending ur People’s money in south africa

Agree

Same logic applied to immigrants in Europe yet they were called racist

lol, Zimbabwe last had a government, if we're being generous in maybe 84..after that Mugabe decided to form a parliament of dunces. There was no ambition at land reform, just political scapegoating and grand larceny. I was from the business/political class. most politicos, and cronies got several commercial farms a piece. My dad refused and fell out with people, including his own brother who had the gall to, (years after a protracted legal battle), hire the white farmer whose farm he had been illegally awarded, to run said farm. People to this day will embezzle the development funds given to them for farming when it ever occurs and most sold off all the implements upon reception of the farms. I have friends who had farms they never went to, estates in Zvimba, luxury homes they originally were renting and then one day just stopped paying for and you cannot throw them out. The party more and more is composed of uneducated, boorish thieves and murderers. Zimbabwe had but a brief moment in which it could have gone in the right direction..by 98 people were just waking up to the reality of the situation, but the dye had been cast in the 80's. Any nation that chases out capital is doomed to fail, the details do not matter.

So one side loses anyways.

In the end, ownership is not the real issue. It's management style. Modern agriculture is not compatible with the native culture of Zimbabwe. If the farms were run in the same way as they used to be, it would be a much smaller problem that would naturally pass with time. Zimbabwe has been in famine ever since the farms were taken away.

I am Native American, I believe this earth belongs to god and should be shared among people. The whole land grabby, especially after whites purchased the land after independence, is wrong. It’s vile and greedy.

So the zulu nation should return all the land they stole from over tribes

@@stephenjohnson6632 Was it from other race? If I agree with you Europe will be saturated 🤣🤣🤣

Back to who. Never. Fuck

Of course prior to you, africans were starving..😏😏😏 europe was so rich you had to leave and come steal African land😎😎😎

It’s 2022 now and wooow Zim is still alive and able to feed its children Let’s go Zimboz Land to the masses🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼

Die of what? Stop fooling yourself

@@winnetkundishora7106 Why are there millions of Zimbabweans in South Africa begging or being Zama zamas?

the colonizers were able to grow food though

@@RealHexJoker yeah, because there were no one when they arrived..wonder how the natives were feeding themselves😏😏..the colonizers were escaping famine back home but still think without them tre natives would have died😂😂😂

@@dadao8564 how did the natives forget how to grow food

@@RealHexJoker i guess the natives were in contact with the colonizer and told them to come quick to help them grow food because they were doing an exceptional job back home😎😎

Thanks my brother. Their hypocrisy is of the highest order.

Produce it yourself stop asking for handouts

@@ppcaca1271 damn the mindset tells it all

Sell it to other African countries and make profit

It brings money you dùmba$$

Then with the profit you buy food. Then with the food, you feed people. Are you getting it now?

@@luyandajayjonsile2545you do realize they have their own right ?

What about them?

@HK Dagger,haha Europeans

He did not make way for his own people to benefit from the land by learning modern farming techniques.

@@SpaceMarine500 they will learn with time don't worry they took back what's theirs

at last count mugabe family had apparently 24 farms. all confiscated from white farmers. zimbabwean justice?

Mugabe brought disaster to Zimbabwe because he was corrupt and tyrannical. That's sad. What's sadder is people who believe Mugabe was a hero because it means the people will continue to experience the evil of corruption and tyranny.

@@Gomez-m5sexactly

abamnyama izingulube zobandlululo

French are the Africans of Europe. Would be typing German if not saved.

BS. If you have the money , you can buy land in Europe , regardless of where you come from. Most of the African dictators bought property in Europe using money that they stole from their people.

Im Zimbabwean and I own land in the Uk. Not sure what you are saying.

@@isaymymind1727 ur among those African families that sold-out, ur privileged, come see how ur mother land looks like, destroyed by European sanctions.

@@isaymymind1727 Are you Black African? What tribe?

@@isaymymind1727 that is lie, you must be white Zimbabwean, therefore you can get land in Europe

That was in 1998, Zimbabwe today is poorer nation than it was back then

@@stevemungai3542thats a lie

I really like what you say

Yeah. But it's not easy to make that happen when these people lived in very very primitive reality recently. They have to take small steps. It took thousands of years for Europeans to become the might they are.

Would you help. I have a plot of land there bt can't develop due to lack of all that . We can partner . Can't we?

The issue is that there is a tremendous lack of basic resources -- fixing infrastructure takes a lot.

Modern machinery costs millions…who’ll buy them…if anything these things benefit the Capitalist and their Big Corporations who have driven things to what it is today. Nature has always done it best. The problem is people owning 100s/1000s of acres of land to plant 1 crop… Chemicals and tilling of land destroys everything…plants, animals and people (look at the so developed countries and the health of their people)…there’ll forever be a need to develop more and more of these unhealthy practices… Divide down the land and let people micromanage through Regenerative Agriculture, build ponds, swales (water catch way systems)…mimic nature…then infrastructure can implemented

bro what

He got his land back

went back to the owners

@@yankiefrenz1367 Zanu PF members?

They stole it from the owner and were to lazy to work and to dumb to know how so its overgrown and gone now.......