TexasDevilDog
03-12-2006, 09:44 AM
Most people probably don't know the history. A 2004 article.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3628445.stm
Zimbabwe has started to distribute white-owned farm machinery to black farmers who have been given their land.
The government said it had "acquired 140 tractors, seven combine harvesters... and 3,262 irrigation pipes" under rules introduced last year.
Article today.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060311/ap_on_bi_ge/zimbabwe_economy;_ylt=AntB_oBzqPMqTVyS0allf8Ss0NUE ;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Inflation for the 12 months to February soared to an all-time high of 782 percent in Zimbabwe, the Central Statistical Office has announced.
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Farm production, exports and the value of the Zimbabwean dollar, worth $2 at 1980 independence, went into free fall after Mugabe ordered seizure of 5,000 farms in February 2000. United Nations agencies say 3 million Zimbabweans are now dependent on international food relief.
The country was for many years a major food exporter to the region.
That is what happens when a socialist government takes too much from the people that will produce and give it to people that can't or wont produce.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3628445.stm
Zimbabwe has started to distribute white-owned farm machinery to black farmers who have been given their land.
The government said it had "acquired 140 tractors, seven combine harvesters... and 3,262 irrigation pipes" under rules introduced last year.
Article today.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060311/ap_on_bi_ge/zimbabwe_economy;_ylt=AntB_oBzqPMqTVyS0allf8Ss0NUE ;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Inflation for the 12 months to February soared to an all-time high of 782 percent in Zimbabwe, the Central Statistical Office has announced.
.,..
Farm production, exports and the value of the Zimbabwean dollar, worth $2 at 1980 independence, went into free fall after Mugabe ordered seizure of 5,000 farms in February 2000. United Nations agencies say 3 million Zimbabweans are now dependent on international food relief.
The country was for many years a major food exporter to the region.
That is what happens when a socialist government takes too much from the people that will produce and give it to people that can't or wont produce.