That's racist!

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KB5252 said:
What happened there?
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Zimbabwe passed a law to seize the land mostly owned by white farmers without compensation in 2000, just like what South Africa did here. The problems was that the land was given back to people who didn't know how to run farms. (They were also reports that people in power helped themselves with a lot of land before distributing them.) Either way, new owners had no experience, capital, or commercial knowledge to keep the farms running, let alone profitable. This caused Zimbabwe's agriculture and economy to collapse and inflation soared. Zimbabwe now has to rely on foreign aid to get by. Remember those 1 trillion dollar Zimbabwe bank notes that made the world news? Just go on Ebay and you can be a trillionaire too with a few US dollars. Zimbabwe recently said they would give the land back to their original owners as the compensation for seizure. It was basically a silly way of saying we now give you your land back but we did nothing wrong to seize it at the first place.
 
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exotic_vols said:
Zimbabwe passed a law to seize the land mostly owned by white farmers without compensation in 2000, just like what South Africa did here. The problems was that the land was given back to people who didn't know how to run farms. (They were also reports that people in power helped themselves with a lot of land before distributing them.) Either way, new owners had no experience, capital, or commercial knowledge to keep the farms running, let alone profitable. This caused Zimbabwe's agriculture and economy to collapse and inflation soared. Zimbabwe now has to rely on foreign aid to get by. Remember those 1 trillion dollar Zimbabwe bank notes that made the world news? Just go on Ebay and you can be a trillionaire too with a few US dollars. Zimbabwe recently said they would give the land back to their original owners as the compensation for seizure. It was basically a silly way of saying we now give you your land back but we did nothing wrong to seize it at the first place.
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Thank you,

So why didn't they just have these farmers show AA's from Zimbabwe how to farm successfully and give them undeveloped land instead of taking it from one and giving to another. Show people how to be successful, increase your economy etc.
 
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KB5252 said:
Thank you,

So why didn't they just have these farmers show AA's from Zimbabwe how to farm successfully and give them undeveloped land instead of taking it from one and giving to another. Show people how to be successful, increase your economy etc.
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That's not how socialism works.
 
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exotic_vols said:
Zimbabwe passed a law to seize the land mostly owned by white farmers without compensation in 2000, just like what South Africa did here. The problems was that the land was given back to people who didn't know how to run farms. (They were also reports that people in power helped themselves with a lot of land before distributing them.) Either way, new owners had no experience, capital, or commercial knowledge to keep the farms running, let alone profitable. This caused Zimbabwe's agriculture and economy to collapse and inflation soared. Zimbabwe now has to rely on foreign aid to get by. Remember those 1 trillion dollar Zimbabwe bank notes that made the world news? Just go on Ebay and you can be a trillionaire too with a few US dollars. Zimbabwe recently said they would give the land back to their original owners as the compensation for seizure. It was basically a silly way of saying we now give you your land back but we did nothing wrong to seize it at the first place.
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Right. Zimbabwe didn't learn the lessons of socialists past. China tried socialized farming and it blew up in their face to the tune of 10's of millions of dead from starvation. Zimbabwe used to export food, they then went to importing food. It takes a long time to learn the ins and outs of farming a particular piece of land. You don't just plug in new people into that patch of land and expect the same results. Doesn't work that way. Hell, in my garden alone (granted, it's a big garden) I have 3 different soil types and have had to learn over the years what does best where. South Africa will learn some hard lessons too if they go through with this. Some people never learn, and think it just wasn't done right the last time around.
 
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KB5252 said:
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The State seized farmland from people who knew how to farm, and gave it to people of preferred identity, that didn’t know how to farm.

By 2013, every white-owned farm in Zimbabwe had been either expropriated or confirmed for future redistribution.[10]

The results were predictable. Zimbabwe went from being the “Breadbasket of Africa” to starvation and famine. Violence and killings ensued. Child labor spiked. In other words - utopia.

Land reform has had a serious negative effect on the Zimbabwean economy and is argued to have heavily contributed to its collapse in the 2000s.[6][7] There has been a drop in total farm output which has led to instances of starvation and famine.[8] Increasing poverty levels combined with the increased informality of farming operations amongst farmers who received redistributed land has led to an increase in the use of child labour especially in the growing of sugar cane.[9]
 
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norrislakevol said:
Right. Zimbabwe didn't learn the lessons of socialists past. China tried socialized farming and it blew up in their face to the tune of 10's of millions of dead from starvation. Zimbabwe used to export food, they then went to importing food. It takes a long time to learn the ins and outs of farming a particular piece of land. You don't just plug in new people into that patch of land and expect the same results. Doesn't work that way. Hell, in my garden alone (granted, it's a big garden) I have 3 different soil types and have had to learn over the years what does best where. South Africa will learn some hard lessons too if they go through with this. Some people never learn, and think it just wasn't done right the last time around.
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It's worth it because white people are evil.
 
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