WATCH: Zimbabwe's New President Promises Compensation For White Farmers

[Bawon Samedi]

I find it ironic that non-Zimbabweans on here from AAs, Haitians, Jamaicans, etc act like they are more concerned than the actual Zimbabweans I am seeing online. Are you guys actually concerned about Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans? Or is this another, "see! see! Africans are so dumb! Da White man gonna take their land!"

Going by what @Northern Son said(who is an actual Zimbabwean), it doesn't seem like they are getting their farms back. And going deeper into this here is what I actually found and what he actually said. Let me clear up some things.

Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa offers money to white farmers

The new president of Zimbabwe promised yesterday to compensate the white farmers whose land was seized under the Mugabe regime as he appealed for western sanctions to be lifted and for foreign investors to help to rebuild his shattered country.

Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged to repay the 5,000 people driven from their land after Robert Mugabe encouraged liberation war veterans and poor blacks to seize farms, machinery and crops from their white neighbours.

Mr Mnangagwa, 75, a feared enforcer for Mr Mugabe known as “The Crocodile”, vowed to be a president for “all citizens, regardless of colour, creed, region, tribe, totem or political affiliation” as he was sworn in at the national sports stadium in Harare in front of 60,000 people. He promised to “hit the ground running” to rebuild the economy and acknowledged that “emotions and expectations are high and mixed”. He appealed to Britain, Canada and the US to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe and for investors to return.

Among the people he met at a Harare hotel after the inauguration was Rory Stewart, Britain’s Africa minister, the first to visit Harare since 1998. “We will take concrete steps to re-engage with those who have had issues with us in the past. Give us a chance,” Mr Mnangagwa said. “All foreign investment will be safe in Zimbabwe. I ask you to join us in exploiting our potential to make a difference to the lives of our people.”

Mr Mnangagwa, accused of overseeing a massacre of opposition supporters in the 1980s, said that many people were guilty of “omission and commission” in the previous regime. The born-again Christian appealed to opposing political factions to “let bygones be bygones” and promised to make sure that all Zimbabweans felt safe and welcome in their own country.

“The task at hand is that of rebuilding our great country,” he said. “I implore you all to declare that never again should the circumstances that have put Zimbabwe in an unfavourable position be allowed to reoccur or overshadow its prospects.”

He moved to allay fears of a delay to next year’s elections, saying that they would be “free and fair” and proceed as planned.

He also praised the former president, who withdrew from attending the ceremony amid fears that he might be attacked by the crowd. “To me personally he remains a father, a mentor, a comrade-in-arms and my leader,” he said. “We say thanks to him and entrust that our history will grant him his proper place.”

Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa offers money to white farmers

1. I read nothing about him giving back the farm land to those White Farmers.

2. He is clearly doing this to get the sanctions lifted. Which makes sense otherwise how else would the economy grow?

3. Even if Whites were giving their farm land back and they cornered the agriculture sector(which is doubtful), there is still the mining sector in Zimbabwe which is a big money maker and economic boost. Botswana became the most stable country in Africa mostly off of just diamonds. Zimbabwe on the other hand has more than just diamonds and more the human capital.

4. Lastly I find it funny that all these posters ignore the fact that Mugabe wanted to invite these White farmers back. Let me post this L since some of you guys like ignoring it.


^^That was 2 years ago when Mugabe was in charge.

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

Honestly if Zimbabweans want to be ruled and dominated by whites let them. Some people only learn the hard way

Naw you don't know the history behind this. When Zimbabwe turned from Rhodesia into Zimbabwe the white farmers were stripped of their land and it was taken over by black farmers. White people from South Africa to the former state of Rhodesia were running media at the time talking about how Zimbabwe was going to turn into Somalia because surely these nikkas can't run an agricultural state... until them Africans started turning profits

I been suspected this coup was to reinstate white farmland and this just confirmed it

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

They were invited back under Mugabe though.

If you know how Mugabe feels about cacs, you know inviting cac farmers back was the last thing he wanted to do.

If we're being honest, there's a sheer element of incompetence on the Zimbabweans' part. They failed to maintain the farming economy cacs left behind

OK, you lacked the experience to run the farm, but you really couldn't pay some cacs or Chinese to provide training to your own people one time, then start an agricultural college to pass that knowledge on?

It's so shameful to have to have cacs comeback and live in luxury homes while overseeing black laborers on some plantation sh*t in Africa no less

They definitely struggled when Mugabe first stripped the white farmers of the land but over the last 5 years they were actually turning profits and CACs in South Africa were furious. Don't let white people control the narrative, this coup happened for a reason.

 

[The D-List Vet]

Good article and the author was fair about being poor Chinese. I was in China when they had no money and Chinese people never lined up for anything in life. Riding in a car was a BIG fukking deal. Sprite and Cola were a big deal to try. Now all of that is mundane. She also pointed out the Chinese were poorer than most of Africa not long ago

i am telling you @Diasporan Royalty is great in the root that where most of the serious Talks happen

 

[agpxknt]

crackkkers gettin reparations in AFRICA but in America we cant even..

 

[HopeKillCure]

i am telling you @Diasporan Royalty is great in the root that where most of the serious Talks happen

I’ve got nothing against the dude, he is black at the end of the day, but some of his stuff is logically shallow and the world ain’t a logical place. It’s a looney bin where the president of the richest and most powerful country in the world is Donald fukking Trump. Nothing about that is logical, we gotta stop being blinded by shallow logic

 

[agpxknt]

You’re from the c00n K, you have zero room to talk. United Koondom blacks would kill their own mothers to be in interracial relationships with potato faced Anglo-Saxon ogres.

This is appeasement to open Zimbabwe up to foreign investment/business. Cacs have to feel rest assured that it’s a different country now that Mugabe’s gone. You emotional numbskulls need to get out of your knee jerk Coli thinking and learn to recognize a chess move.

Those cacs will never get the land back, so it means nothing essentially, other than being a political gesture to change the perception/image of the country.

dismantled his ass

 

[BlackJesus]

Why is this the first thing on his agenda tho?

How about re-building the country? How can a country with 90% unemployment and 125% inflation "compensate" anyone?

 

[Premeditated]

someone wants to point to me where in the speech he says white farmers only?

and I thought it was for people who bought land AFTER 1980?

 

[agpxknt]

We had those but they never had the proper protection

 

[International Playa]

He said anyone who qualifies for land will get land. So if you qualify & meet the requirements whether white or black, you will get land

 

[agpxknt]

Black people gotta stop waiting for the afterlife.

Like Claud Anderson say, all other races get to live in paradise now while their still living
black folk on the other hand are told to wait for their "pie in the sky"

 

[Bondye Vodou]

We need black leadership with a afrocentric, pro-black, pan-afranism mind.

Leaders like that would only end up dead, western powers only want puppet leaders in African countries

 

[thatrapsfan]

I find it ironic that non-Zimbabweans on here from AAs, Haitians, Jamaicans, etc act like they are more concerned than the actual Zimbabweans I am seeing online. Are you guys actually concerned about Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans? Or is this another, "see! see! Africans are so dumb! Da White man gonna take their land!"

Going by what @Northern Son said(who is an actual Zimbabwean), it doesn't seem like they are getting their farms back. And going deeper into this here is what I actually found and what he actually said. Let me clear up some things.

Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa offers money to white farmers

Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa offers money to white farmers

1. I read nothing about him giving back the farm land to those White Farmers.

2. He is clearly doing this to get the sanctions lifted. Which makes sense otherwise how else would the economy grow?

3. Even if Whites were giving their farm land back and they cornered the agriculture sector(which is doubtful), there is still the mining sector in Zimbabwe which is a big money maker and economic boost. Botswana became the most stable country in Africa mostly off of just diamonds. Zimbabwe on the other hand has more than just diamonds and more the human capital.

4. Lastly I find it funny that all these posters ignore the fact that Mugabe wanted to invite these White farmers back. Let me post this L since some of you guys like ignoring it.


^^That was 2 years ago when Mugabe was in charge.

90 percent of this thread is clueless and just love to throw around jingoistic rhetoric. In the same speech he made clear that the land transfers are non-negotiable. Like you said this was made with an eye of removing sanctions and getting funds following into the country again. There is zero to suggest that: 1) He is a Western puppet 2) There will be some broad reversal of political power in Zim that will favour white Zimbos.

Ironically, the extreme focus on the racial dynamics of Zim politics from black foreigners, means that people overlook other legitimate concerns about the new President.

 

[thatrapsfan]

someone wants to point to me where in the speech he says white farmers only?

and I thought it was for people who bought land AFTER 1980?

Yes. In the next paragraph he says the land transfers are non-negotiable. But Coli brehs are so desperate to claim Zim is reverting to colonial rule because they dared to get rid of a 94 year old Presidenf.