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If Zimbabwe’s white farmers are Compensated for loss of farms then blacks should be compensated for colonisation, slavery and loss of land!
It is right to take a step back from this volatile topic and apply common sense. In more ways than one, Mugabe is right to seek redress of past imbalances created by colonisation in Zimbabwe. These include loss of land, self employment and livelihoods by blacks as they were forcibly evicted from their motherland rich agricultural areas and pushed to dry , barren areas of little or no agricultural value, lands they could barely survive on, while the racist oppressive white Rhodesian farmers became filthy rich.
Whatever the understanding at Lancaster house was, it cannot be right that the indigenous people, blacks in this case are marginalised while the racist oppressive white Ian Smith Rhodesian whites and their descendants are compensated for farms then blacks must be compensated for loss of income and livelihood due to colonialism and apartheid!
If this happens, then by default, all blacks should be compensated for past imbalances created by colonisation. Blacks are wallowing in poverty fuelled by an equally oppressive black government which steals wealth under the guise of black empowerment and indigenisation and by right, deserve compensation for the effects of the political dispensation that marginalised them all along, which was racism by the white Ian Smith Rhodesian regime.
Clamouring for compensation legitimised by Sadc, an African body, would be tantamount to negating the effects of black empowerment and indigenisation, thereby justifying colonisation and legitimising black oppression because the oppressor and his descendants ,..win again and you wallow in poverty all your life!
As soon as Sadc approves of such a scandalous reversal of the gains of the last twenty years by the rightful black land owners from oppressive white Ian Smith Rhodesian regime farmers, miners and other businesses, then we have an uphill task ahead including black on black wars to level the play field. Any opposition that seeks to reverse those gains in the above manner, is simply never going to manage to win an election in Zimbabwe..
Zimbabweans in general are a peace loving people who are totally against the murderous manner of eviction of whites but absolutely all in support of land and resources to the indigenous people.
If Sadc fails to respect that, then this time people of Zimbabwe may rightfully support, Mugabe withdrawing from Sadc. never can the people of Zimbabwe accept being dispossessed of their gains or to be recolonised in such a deceitful manner by a body they created and endorsed all these years.
It is reported by BBC that Liverpool merchants was involved in slave trading and then later formed Heywoods Bank, which eventually became part of Barclays Bank. Several other modern banking names, such as Lloyds, emerged in this way and inevitably had links to the Atlantic slave trade.
When the Bank of England was created in 1694, it underpinned the whole system of commercial credit, and its wealthy City members. the point is that a good search into history will show you that some of the wealthiest and well established companies, ruling families and first world nations were built up on the backbone of the rich slave trade.
It is madness now for particularly Southern African Development Community (SADC) whose goal is to further socio-economic cooperation and integration as well as political and security cooperation among member states from the Southern region should now be the champion of compensating Zimbabwe’s white farmers for indigenous black people’s land. The member states generally face challenges including member state compliance with human rights, social, development, economic, trade, education, health, diplomatic, defence, security and political challenges which directly impact upon the livelihood of the people of Southern Africa.
The world at this time does cannot afford a broken up Sadc community, but if Sadc so much as dares to even consider the claim for compensation by dispossessed white farmers, then it should go back to history and establish exactly how the land was obtained from original black owners , leaving them as poor, landless oppressed people in their motherland while colonisers became filthy rich.
It is known that most land owners were forcibly evicted with nothing but the shirts on their backs . and high tailed it to their first world motherlands where they can’t stomach living in council flats, smaller than the cabins their labourers lived in on farms, larger than their current cities wherever they are in this world, and having to wake up daily and go to work,
Its amazing how its painful to them when the shoe is on the other foot and thats why they seek to reverse the indigenous gains of destroying the last vestiges of colonialism as Mugabe successfully did.
I am unapologetic about how much I dislike Mugabe, Zim1 family, Zanu pf stalwarts and securocrats for the violence and death inflicted upon white farmers but I’m strongly behind the call for ‘land to the indigenous people!’
Compensate white farmers yes, but compensate generations past and present indigenous blacks first for loss of the land at the hands of white colonisers and then maybe, just maybe we can consider compensating white farmers or thanking them financially for all the pain, suffering, marginilisation, oppression, torture, death, loss of land, loss of livelihood, forced labour, mental torture and numerous other psychological effects of colonisation in the case of Zimbabwe as slavery did not affect the country, so it would be false to claim slavery affected Zimbabwe directly.
No to half measures in compensation, either no compensation for land lost by white farmers or compensate them for land lost and compensate blacks for land lost through colonisation,…’all is fair in love and war!’
If Zimbabwe’s white farmers are Compensated for loss of farms then blacks should be compensated for colonisation and by default blacks in various nations who were subjected to slavery should be compensated for slavery!
In this case its fair to say, colonialists lost and indigenous peoples won,..sh*t happens,..move on! Just a thought….DISCUSS! By Sibusiso Ngwenya