make sure its all written from the white man's
point of view
Foxy,
If you could kindly please provide indigenous written records from the pre-invasion period, I'd be most interested particularly in a translated version.

After it all said and done, when the white farmers were pushed out of
Zimbabwe the farms were taken over by the people often already living
on those farms or in the district.
Why then did the farms fall into neglect and stop producing food ?
Possibly some had been working on those farms for generations.
This was not a symptom of just the one country.
Sth Africa is already on the way down the same track.
You cannot blame the white man, it has to be the black man.

Within living memory we have the horrors of the Chinese One policy to see what happens when government and/or society sets out on the path of population control.

And yet we still have population control advocates.

There's little point in commenting on their monumental lack of empathy let alone humanity.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Bazz,

My limited understanding of the farm seizure in Zimbabwe is that the farm workers were also expelled, and the lands were taken by ex-guerillas who had rarely been farmers or farm-workers: they assumed that the mere act of seizing the farms would provide good incomes. So both the former managers and the workers on those farms were divorced from production and those who took those assets had little experience of farming. So disaster: the bread-basket of Africa has become a basket-case.

Joe

Hi Mhaze,

Thank you, that's what I was trying to get across, in my clumsy way.

Improving the status of women in agrarian societies has indirect (perhaps inter-generational) effects. It requires the equal (or better) schooling of young girls, so they are taken partly out of production, and the benefits for their families of their better education are a sort of deferred reward for parental sacrifices and expense.

Better schooling means they can postpone marriage, perhaps indefinitely; they can aspire to far better employment opportunities and then decide how to juggle careers with marriage and child-rearing, just as women do here.

They can support their parents better in their old age if they are educated and employed, and provide financially for their own retirement as well. So there are many reasons why better-educated women may have fewer children.

In other words, there is an inverse relationship between women's educational success and the birth-rate. So, as women's status improves, there is less need to ever contemplate any sort of deliberate (let alone compulsory, as some posters here hint at) family planning programs - they will happen.

Joe

Individual,

Go to your local library. They're paid
to help you. I don't have the time or the
crayons to explain things to you.