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azrom:
President Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe, which has mounted a six-year campaign to seize white-owned farms, is poised to allow hundreds of white farmers to return to their land as the country faces starvation and economic collapse.

“There could be some 300 whites back on farms by the end of next year,” Sam Moyo, a government land adviser, told the Guardian. “Most of them will be running commercial farms.”

Since November, 19 white farmers who lost ownership of their land have been granted 99-year, government-backed leases on resettled farms in a spectacular U-turn by Mr Mugabe.

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In July 2005 Mr Mugabe declared that his land reform policy would be complete only when there was “not a single white on the farms”. But a contracting economy, hyperinflation touching 1,100% and food shortages have forced the authorities to allow some interested whites to return.

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The land minister, Flora Buka, said the government had received more than 200 applications so far from whites to take up farming again. There are only about 600 white farmers left in Zimbabwe, down from 4,500 six years ago.

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The UN-funded World Food Programme has said that 2 million Zimbabweans will need food aid in the next six months despite improved agricultural output last season.

But the welcoming back of white farmers may be too little too late.

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http://inverted-world.com/index.php/news/news/zimbabwe_poised_to_welcome_back_white_farmers/

fjack:
Any white that goes back to that hell hole is a complete idiot and does not deserve any respect or help from anyother white person. Let these africans starve. They are a completely useless people.

azrom:
I agree. Those blacks are getting what they deserve.

Yochanan Zev:
I actually agree with you guys here.   I'm no fan of Robert Mugabe, but I wish the "west" would leave zimbabwe alone and quit interfering in their affairs.  Let all the South Africans work it out on their own.  The only thing is that Tony Blair and Jack Straw can't resist meddling due to pressure from the right to intervene.

fjack:
Karanga, I do agree with you that Africa must sink or swin by its owm merits. I disagree with you it is the right that is interferring. It is stupid white liberals such as bono, madonna, jolie and the rest of these idiots that believe that the africans are nothing more than pets who cannot do anything without their intervention. To me, this is more racist than anything the KKK could ever come up with. To me these 'white liberals' are not fit to own a bug let alone an african child or direct an african nation. They can't even handle their own lives.

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