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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (16171)8/13/2002 9:27:07 PM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 23908
 
War on the Peasantry

Mugabe's Crimes Pale Next to What Black Small Farmers Endure in the Name of Development

by George Monbiot

commondreams.org

... Though the 4,500 white farmers there own two-thirds of of the best land, many of them grow not food but tobacco. Seventy per cent of the nation's maize - its primary staple crop - is grown by black peasant farmers hacking a living from the marginal lands they were left by the whites ...