Hasn't anyone noticed the echo of Zimbabwi ?
After the attacks on farms there and their abandonment the country
went down down down.
Now there is not enough room on their currency for the zeros.
The white farmers there warned that the blacks after years of working
on the farms had learnt nothing and after the white farmers left the
country starved.

Either the blacks are incapable of running farms or they are just not interested.
The women are the main farmers which explains why the continent has
had a population explosion and forced the immigration surge to Europe.

Dear Josephus,

Is that all you got out of the link I gave?

And BTW - the author's article and link is from
Harper's Magazine.

James Pogue is a writer based in Los Angeles. He HAS
written for the New Yorker and the New York Times
Magazine and Granta and the Lon don Review of Books.
This article however is from as stated earlier -
Harper's Magazine and should be read in its entirety
and in context.

All I can do is provide links. Unfortunately I can't
interpret them for you.

runner, George Floyd did not die from an overdose.
He was killed by a police officer.

Bazz,

My understanding of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe is that the black farm workers were skilled, were treated well by their white farmer employers and lived on-farm, and productivity was very high - with full food security in the country and valuable food exports.

Mugabe instructed his war veterans to go and take back their stolen heritage - just as has now been decreed by idiot politicians/Marxists in S.A. - and in Zimbabwe not only were the white farmers killed etc, but their black farm workers were also killed or run off.

Farms left to ruin in uncaring and incapable idiot hands. Typical.
Hence, famine in Zimbabwe, and Mugabe with a Town House in Regents Park.

S.A. post Mandela with massive ghettos, criminal gangs, and ordinary folk having to form vigilante groups to protect themselves and their families and little stores and stalls trying to eke out a meagre existence.

Where's the U.N? (Busy housing refugees/victims from Libya, Syria, etc
with no attempt at homeland rehabilitation after the failed Arab Spring, bleeding-hearts ferrying adventure-seekers to Lesbos, and Europe inheriting the foreign-aid failures of 100 years.)

So very, very sad.

George Floyd did not die from an overdose.
He was killed by a police officer.
Foxy,
What was it with his behaviour that drew the attention of the Police ? Was he he just window shopping when they grabbed him for no reason ?
Or, was in in his pyjamas trying to report a crime like Justine Damont ?

Salty, you could not find two leaders that were so dissimilar, Robert Mugabe and Nelson Mandela. Mandela was everything good that Mugabe was bad, Mandela a true leader for all his countrymen. Despite the tremendous obstacles faced by South Africa post apartheid Mandela strove for peaceful reconciliation between black and white, forgiveness with the setting aside of past injustices was a key part of the Mandela philosophy. Unfortunately colonialism left Africa with only the one Mandela, and too many Mugabe's. Leaders ill-equipped to deal with independence in a modern world. So many came to power offering hope, only to fail at the first obstacle, in an environment of hate and greed. A patched worked continent filled with artificial boarders imposed by past colonial powers, poor "countries" overtaken by tribalism with no resources to build truly peaceful modern societies in a 21st century world. Unfortunately Mandela was only Mandela, today Africa is in need of a dozen or more Nelson Mandela's.

P/s In the very early days I though Robert Mugabe did offer the possibility of peaceful leadership for Zimbabwe, and he could help in building a great Zimbabwean nation. Despite the ills left behind by colonialism there was a reasonable expectation that through Mugabe's leadership Zimbabwe would become an exception, and be a democratic peaceful and prosperous society for the Zimbabwean people, sadly that was not the case.

Paul1405,

If Saltpetre thinks Mugabe is some sort of role model then it wouldn't surprise me if he has a big portrait of Idi Amin mounted on the wall at home.