The Zimbabwean Crisis

• Michael
  November 8th, 2007 at 8:13 am

  The unfortunate thing is that South Africa, the neighboring country to Zimbabwe, has one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and now South Africa is struggling with illegal immigrants and the like.

  I once spoke to a legal immigrant from Zimbabwe, you can see how sad they are for leaving the country, but as he said, “Nothing is left for me there”.

• Sid Morrison
  November 8th, 2007 at 9:00 am

  Zimbabwe got itself into trouble in 2000 when the government confiscated all the land owned by efficient and productive farmers (who happened to be white). It was redistributed to blacks who happened to have little experience or expertise in farming. The results were predictable and drastic — production plummeted, prices skyrocketed, people starved, and unrest ensued. Starving people and rampant inflation = revolution. Mugabe will be fortunate if his head doesn’t end up in basket like Louis XVI.

• skh.pcola
  November 8th, 2007 at 10:36 am

  It’s all George Bush’s fault, or Glowball Worming’s fault…just ask an execrable liberal. The US is responsible for every bad thing that happens in the world. I’m surprised one of the leftard commenters haven’t pointed this out yet.

• Justin
  November 8th, 2007 at 10:47 am

  It’s really sad how one person can so totally bring a prosperous country to near complete ruin. Farming used to be one of Zimbabwe’s big exports and now they can’t even feed their own people!

  And it’s not like the guy turned the land over to the people once he took it from the mostly white Zimbabweans. Instead he just handed it out to his cronies who had no clue about farming, nor had the equipment.

  There are certain people the world would be better without…

• Jim
  November 8th, 2007 at 11:22 am

  skh.pcola: Go fuck yourself.

• Vonskippy
  November 8th, 2007 at 2:03 pm

  Sniff. Ok, I’m over it.

  Hard to feel sympathy for a country that shot itself in the foot.

• Chris
  November 8th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

  Well, it’s sort of a solution for population control. that and AIDS. Zimbabwe is a leading country, succeding where other countries like China (birth rate ctrl) or India (sterilisation) have failed.
  We’re waiting for the next great idea.

• c-dub
  November 8th, 2007 at 2:36 pm

  Vonskippy, there’s a difference between a country’s government and its people.

• Tony
  November 8th, 2007 at 8:48 pm

  It’s obvious that most African nations cannot rule themselves. Abolishing colonization and giving African nations independence was a bad idea. It seems these people just don’t have the brains or the willpower or inclination to govern themselves.

• Alex
  November 9th, 2007 at 3:08 am

  Here’s the Mugabe Mansion mentioned by the article.

• Sid Morrison
  November 9th, 2007 at 8:29 am

  Thanks for posting the Mugabe Mansion, Alex. It’s not quite Versailles, but it might earn Mugabe an eventual “necklacing”.

• Sid Morrison
  November 9th, 2007 at 10:41 am

  Tony raises an interesting theory, but I’d like to expand it and stay away from the traps of racial-oriented explanations. Yes, prima facie evidence does lend itself to asserting that “something” must be different about the African people themselves. I’ll offer that perhaps it’s not the people’s genetics (their intelligence, their race, or whatever) that has hampered their ability to self govern, but rather a lack of “western experience”.

  The great Western Democracies were based on 2500 years of cultural foundations from Ancient Greece, Rome, medieval Europe, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, &c. There were a whole lot of successes, failures, and ultimately learning about how to run a government that happened during that time. Most of Africa missed all of it! We expect them to act like we do when the population is largely illiterate and almost wholely ignorant of what took us a couple millenia to pick up ourselves.

  Literacy is the first step to resolving their condition. WIthout literacy, learning is forvever handicapped. Without learning, a people will live in perpetual ignorance and the problems never get solved — they’ll only move from one strongman/dictator to the next without ever achieving peace or achieving living standards close to the developed world.

  Straight talk from Sid.

• skh.pcola
  November 12th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

  Jim has a compelling argument, but he didn’t quite make the connection to Zimbabwe’s problems being the fault of the United States, or more specifically, GWBush. He is showing his leftard tendency, though.

• SteveVA
  December 29th, 2007 at 10:24 pm

  Blacks have a gift when it comes to destroying what whites build. Here in the U.S. they’re working over Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans pretty well. With the demographic trend the way it is, they’ll have the whole country going down the tubes in the next 30-50 years. All this just in time to be enslaved by a rising Asian power or perhaps put out of their misery by some meteorite.

• MoonCake
  July 24th, 2008 at 6:50 am

  wow steve.. can you be more of a dick please? i enjoy palpable ignorance, and you’re just feeding my appetite.

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