-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded message follows ------- According to this article, the government of Zimbabwe is moving to destroy domestic agriculture while simultaneously requesting millions of dollars worth of food aid from the UN.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3- 2001393866,00.html ------------------------------------------------------- ----------- TUESDAY NOVEMBER 13 2001 4,000 Zimbabwe farmers to be evicted FROM JAN RAATH IN HARARE ZIMBABWE announced new measures yesterday to enable the Government to nationalise up to 90 per cent of all white-owned land at the stroke of a pen -- a move expected to wipe out next year's crops almost totally. With immediate effect, 800 farmers have been given three months' notice to get off their land. The owners will be "confined to their homes" during the three months while their properties are occupied by black settlers, Patrick Chinamasa, the Justice Minister, said. Every other white-owned farm that has been formally notified -- about another 3,700 properties -- that the Government intends to take will also be issued with eviction orders, he said. The first result will be that nearly all Zimbabwe's commercial farmers will cancel their cropping and livestock plans for the cropping season just started, experts said. About 22 million acres, nearly all of it intensively farmed, will fall out of production almost immediately. "It is suicide," John Robertson, an independent economist, said. "Anything that has been planted will go to waste. Gross domestic product will be cut by half. It will make us equal to the poorest countries in the world. These are the actions of madmen." On Friday the Government passed a decree under President Mugabe's sweeping "presidential powers" that provided almost state-of-emergency authority. Any farm issued with a "notice of acquisition" becomes state property immediately. The Government can move settlers in and the owner is immediately banned from any farming. Mr Chinamasa refused to say how long it would take for the regime to sign all the orders for seizure. The Commercial Farmers' Union would not comment immediately, but one senior official said privately: "This is very, very serious." The announcement came as the United Nations prepared to respond to the Government's appeal two weeks ago for nearly $365 million in emergency relief for serious famine that has already begun. With food stocks due to run out by the end of January, one million people are already in "dire need" of food. The decree is seen as the final act in Mr Mugabe's campaign effectively to end any significant white presence in the countryside and to avenge the confiscation of land from blacks by white settlers, who began arriving 110 years ago. Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd. END ------ End of forwarded message ------- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
