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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
What I said to Ty is, what would you do? When 4000 white farmers end up with 90% of the arable land in the country (I suppose you think that's just a coincidence), and the majority of the population is starving as it was in the 90s -- long before any land reform occurred (i.e., while Zimbabwe was still barred by treaty from land reform), how do you redress that? Obviously Mugabe has been a disaster, but merely saying that and yelling "Takings Clause!" does not provide a solution.
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For better or for worse, the majority of the population was not "starving" before Mugabe started seizing land in 2000, although he has denied food to certain ethnic groups in the past -- when whites do this, it is often called genocide. Zimbabwe was the breadbasket of southern Africa. The starvation that you see there now is the direct result of Mugabe taking working farms (from white farmers, mostly) and giving them to political hacks who cannot run them. I'm not saying that Zimbabwe was the platonic ideal of racial justice or anything, but Mugabe has caused this crisis as a response to his domestic political troubles.
