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Where, dear reader, have we seen this before?

Not Biloxi, right?

THE Government of Robert Mugabe tabled draconian laws yesterday to drive the last white farmers from their land and crush dissent.

The constitutional amendments debated in Parliament will nationalise all agricultural land that has been listed for seizure since 2000. Landowners will have no right to contest the confiscations and will be barred from receiving compensation ...

After five years of murder, assault and harassment of white-owned farms by state agents, the Government has managed to confiscate legally only about 10 per cent of the estimated 4,500 properties. All but a handful of white farmers have had their property listed for “compulsory acquisition”.

However, most of them have kept the Government at bay by fighting their eviction in court. About 450 farmers have stayed on their farms.

Mr Coltart [MDC legal director] said: “These constitutional changes are designed for once and for all to smash the white farmers and to close any possible avenue for using the constitution to protect human rights.”

From todays Times.

Johan’s fine article posted here on June 26th is out of date!  “Try googling “Boer farm murders”.  You will get the picture,” he wrote of the mainstream media’s failure to inform the public about the assault on SA’s Boer farmers.  But today Roger Graef in the Sunday Telegraph has broken the silence.

He has done it, however, in a journalistically even-handed way, reporting the views of a Boer farmer in the northern Gauteng province, the black from whom this particular land was taken and the local police chief.  The latter is provided with an eight-strong force of men and two cars to patrol an area the size of Scotland.

The one-time black farmer is clear that whites should simply go away:-

Payete Ndlovana, the black farmer, explains the violence as revenge for the sins of apartheid. He and his family were kicked off their farm more than 30 years ago and since 1994 he has vainly tried to recover it.

Despite government promises, Mr Payete is furious at the slow pace of land reform. He drives out from his small house in the townships to what was once his family’s land, now fenced off with razor wire.

A narrow passage allows him to visit the graves of his forebears. He backs Robert Mugabe’s approach in Zimbabwe and wants whites to go somewhere else. “Mugabe is right. They kicked us off our land, that’s why we fight,” he says.

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Willingly, I never give a penny to charities beyond those serving the needy of my own people.  Willingly, I never entertain the solicitations of charities “supporting” the Third World.  Sub-Saharan Africa is completely beyond the pale.  Africans will never, never overcome their inate characteristics - which, of course, include:-

1) A disastrously low average IQ productive of n-o-t-h-i-n-g.

2) Sexual aggression, leading directly to violence and acts of surpassing cruelty at every level from the personal to the genocidal.

3) A striking poverty in those cooperative qualities upon which social and economic progress depend, in consequence of which African rulers are invariably corrupt despots and life for African people is invariably insecure, oft times bestial.

“Make poverty history” is a truly pathetic, wasteful and ignorant idea.  “Make low-IQ history” or “Make sexual aggression history” would make more sense if the developed world grasped the eugenic nettle and bred Africa into some semblance of tolerableness.  But drug-busted, non-musical pop people ... idiot-crowds waving their arms aloft in Hyde Park ... “Sir Bob” and the whole ghastly, liberalistic Mandela-isation of global politics completely turns me off ... dude.

The only, marginally respectable argument for charity to Africa is that some of those who get their hands on the dough might be good enough not to come and live amongst us.  But I don’t think even that modest return on our “investment” will come about.  Nothing sustains in Africa.  Africans will keep coming until we have to close the door.

Around the world billions of predictably suggestible airheads, they say, will view the great publicity stunt.  I never listen to “bands”.  Big children with a few hundred amps but no musicality hold not the slightest appeal for me.  Shan’t watch.  Shan’t listen.  Shan’t pay any attention.  Obviously, shan’t donate.

The ‘freedom’ we have gained is therefore but mere licence for us to behave as to the manner born, destined to build a society consumed by corruption, sexual depravity, autocracy and criminal violence

No, not Thabo Mbeki reflecting on the difficulties of post-apartheid South Africa.  The quote is from a Telegraph article today, and shows Mbeki wackily characterising the supposed opinion of UK Chancellor Gordon Brown in a weekly Presidential epistle to the on-line newsletter, ANC Today.

“President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa rebuked Gordon Brown yesterday,” the Telegraph article begins, “accusing the “presumed successor to Tony Blair” of promoting nostalgia for British imperialism and joining in a “discourse” that “demonises” blacks.”

Mbeki, of course, is a specialist in denial.  So we should not be surprised that he denies those social and economic outcomes the rest of the world wearily anticipates from his people.  He once even found it in him to answer the anti-rape campaign of vicitim-activist Charlene Smith, writing in ANC Today only in the most general terms about ‘contact crime’ (rather than rape) and ascribing the causes to poverty and community degradation.  Mountainous peaks in Serum Testosterone rythmicity, did you say? Never heard of it.

Meanwhile, the latest target of Mbeki’s wrath - our once-prudent Chancellor and PM-in-waiting - is working hard to solve Africa’s crises from without.  That also, in its way, is an act of sublime denial.  Mbeki, apparently, does not recognise a kindred spirit when he sees one.

The Boer years were rolled back yet further yesterday when some official commission decided that the RSA capital Pretoria should henceforth be known as Tshwane.

A city built as a monument to the white Afrikaner heroes - and a symbol of resistance to the British during the Boer War - will soon carry the name of an African chief who once ruled the area.

Critics said the change was designed to obliterate the symbols and folk memories of the country’s three million Afrikaners.

But Ben Mncube, 28, said whites should learn to live with the new name. “It was the whites who introduced all these names when they came here,” he added. “There should be African names for African cities.”

Leaving aside the question whether there is such a thing, strictly speaking, as an African city, I don’t think one can argue there with Ben.  Sorry Pretorians of old, hunkered down behind your electrified fences, a loaded gun in every drawer.  African heritage and culture should inform the naming of the seats of power in African nation states.  Leaving aside, of course, the question whether there is such a thing as an African nation state ...

Justice ... nay, not merely justice but democracy and freedom demand that this worthy principle must translate everywhere.  That, after all, is only being equal, isn’t it?  Can’t argue with that.

And so to Britain, where the new colonisers have, with typically uncaring and selfish disdain, imposed their own culture upon us in the form of, quite probably, hundreds of alien place and street names.  Are we not to share in the rights of all ancient majorities, so expressly contained within that one glorious, never to be forgotten word, “Tchwa ... Tchaw ...  Tsch ... well knee, anyway?  Or Nay.  Or Nur.

Probably not.

Those who still try on the old RDNE line and the one about evil white racists have some explaining to do this morning.

White farmers may be allowed back on their land in Zimbabwe as part of a plan by the government of Robert Mugabe to solve the country’s deepening economic crisis.

The president’s key finance aide has called for some of the farmers whose properties were confiscated in a land seizure programme to be allowed to resume growing crops to boost the country’s flagging agricultural output ...

“In order to ensure maximum productivity levels, there is great scope in the country promoting and supporting joint ventures between the new farmers with progressive-minded former operators,” said Mr Gono in a state radio and television broadcast that lasted nearly three hours.

He added that the skilled whites and other new investors would be given special guarantees of uninterrupted tenure of five to 10 years, backed by government force to prevent any disruptions on the farms.

Mr Gono was careful to say that it would not reverse Mr Mugabe’s redistribution of white-owned land to blacks.

However, observers say his plan would be an implicit admission that the land seizure policy has failed.

A Zimbabwean economist, John Robertson, said: “This shows the desperation of the government to improve the economy. They say it is not a reversal of their land seizures, but it is. It won’t get very far.”

I hope it doesn’t.  Not out of the simple desire to turn a profit ... not out of some romantic notion of Africa ... not out of any satisfaction born of righting the injustice of Mugabe’s land “reforms” should Zimbabwe’s former white population turn again.  A bitter lesson should have been very thoroughly learned.  White Rhodesians are stateless until they come home to where they truly belong.

Such a unique natural disaster as the Asian Tsunami should not go entirely unmarked on any news-based comment blog, and to date it has done so here.  So we will correct that.  It behoves us to acknowledge the human suffering the great waves caused and, also, the humility with which Mankind, however Westernised and modern he may be, must stand before such total, elementary and blind force.

We are of the natural world and not the master of it - not even the master of ourselves, though many a political fool of liberal mein may think so.  We do not yet truly understand the natural world, much less control it.  We have only really reached the callow stage where we may observe it systematically.

The sense of awe that follows upon that exercise is, perhaps, no longer awe of the Almighty.  But who among us, thinking on their own thoughts and feelings as they study the images on this link to News@Nature, can say with any certitude that the quality of those feelings is any more refined, better or even different to those of our faithful forefathers.