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To: Yaacov who wrote (16170)8/10/2002 3:54:17 PM
From: Elmer Flugum  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 23908
 
This is true, but they were also controlling the land and the Blacks were not participating in the wealth of that land.

The British blew it.

nytimes.com

"Officials of the World Bank and Western governments agree land should be redistributed in Zimbabwe, where the legacy of colonialism has left a tiny white minority with more than half the fertile soil. Whites make up only 1 percent of the population. But farmers and foreign donors have balked at participating in this program, which has been dogged by violence and cronyism ever since it was revived two years ago in what is widely viewed as a tactic to bolster Mr. Mugabe's waning popularity."