Why Africans are Poor: Europeans Asians and Middle Easterners Taking Thousands of Acres of Farmland

Europeans Asians and Middle Easterners Taking Thousands of Acres of Farmland

When Robert Mugabe announced that white farmers would have to vacate their farms and leave Zimbabwe, it erupted into a world cacophony against the tiny African leader. But wait, 3,000 white farmers owned 50% of all of the Zimbabwe's arable land. The other 50% was divided among 12 million Africans. The white farmers said how dare he seize our land.

Of course, it is laughable that the white farmers would even think such a thing. Today we would expect any African leader, who is first generation post-colonial administration to correct or try to correct most of the ills the nation suffered under European rule.

However, the colonial powers never let go and will not let go. Most African nations are independent in name only. The riches, resources and land still are held in white or non-black hands.

After slavery was looked down upon colonial powers simply turned to seizing the riches of Africa directly.

Many African nations export their riches, at no gain to themselves. Very young and immature leaders of African nations have given away resources that was not theirs to give.

And, now we have the land issue. African leaders are party to contracting out or giving away tribal lands that they have no control over. For instance, China now owns over 3 million hectares each, in nearly all the sub-saharan African nations. They have displaced entire villages. Government officials descended on tribal lands and at gunpoint made the owners leave, people who had been on the land for thousands of years.

China’s efforts have now turned to acquiring control of thousands of acres of arable farm land (at bargain prices) in Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Madagascar and elsewhere on the continent. India and Saudi Arabia are also pursuing large concessions of arable land to also feed their people, using the African’s land and water resources.

Notably the Saudis and neighboring Arab countries have been busy leasing tracts of land in Kenya, and in Sudan which is one of the poorest-destitute countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The West Darfur region of Sudan is where more than five million people have been displaced, and thousands have died from genocide and starvation.

The problem is always that the land is so underdeveloped that there is no infrastructure for the tribes to even have recourse against the government. Imagine the thousand hectares is located 12 miles off the nearest road.

As if that were not enough to make you cry, by itself, these Europeans or Chinese then come farm the land and ship every drop of grain or whatever, back to China. The millions of hectares of produce is not even used inside the country.

Some would blame the leaders for this, but you have to consider all the factors. Most of these leaders are 1st or 2nd generations rebel leaders. They are not professional politicians. They are not financial wizards, nor do they have such at their disposal. The people doing the contracting are the actual European or Chinese governments, who have a limitless amount of resources to figure out the best possible way to screw these immature African leaders.

These same powers turn around and claim they are giving aid to Africa.

Of course Africa would not need aid if it used even 50%, 60%, or even 70% of its own resources and produce. Africa would not need aid if it used 30% of its oil and traded its own oil at market prices. Yes, a lot of countries go into African nations and acquire the oil rights for nothing, leaving the population and the nation to starve, with nothing to show for it.

We now have European Apologists and Chinese Apologists in Africa. Africans who tour the continent defending the Chinese or European's right to do business on the continent.

These nations literally won their independence, only to be turned around and enslaved all over again.

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Zimbabwe: Still Impoverished by the IMF World Bank

US urges reforms in Zimbabwe

The US secretary of state has said that South Africa must push its neighbour Zimbabwe to undertake political, social and economic reforms, during a visit to Pretoria.

"South Africa is very aware of the challenges posed by the political crisis in Zimbabwe because South Africa has three million refugees from Zimbabwe," Hillary Clinton said on Friday after talks with Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa's foreign minister.

"Every one of those refugees represents a failure of the Zimbabwean government to care for its own people and a burden that South Africa has to bear," Clinton said.

An adviser to Jacob Zuma, the South African president, told Al Jazeera that Zuma was keen to see reforms implemented in Zimbabwe.

"[Zuma] is very prepared to engage as far as he can in order to resolve the problems and the challenges that are faced by the Zimbabwean people, because every negative thing that happens in Zimbabwe has a direct impact on South Africa," Lindiwe Zulu said.

"He would like to speed up the process as quickly as possible," she said, adding that Zuma would soon travel to Zimbabwe to hold talks with members of the government in Harare.





Changes sought


The US government is looking for Zimbabwe to pick up the pace of political reform so that donor countries have sufficient incentive to release aid to Harare.

Washington has maintained sanctions against Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president and his closest aides.



The US government has said that the lifting of sanctions is contingent on reforms being implemented by Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and the government it shares with Morgan Tsvangirai, a former opposition leader who is now the country's prime minister.

But Mugabe, who has been president of Zimbabwe since 1980, has said that Western sanctions and interference have caused the economic crisis in his country.

Clinton’s appeal on Friday comes amid efforts by the US government to build better relations with South Africa, which came under strain when the Bush administration was in power.

"I know that the [South African foreign] minister and I are interested in making sure that our two countries not only lead but demonstrate the kind of co-operation that results in positive results for the people of the world," she said.

Clinton later went to HIV/Aids treatment centre in Cullinan, east of Pretoria, where she held talks with Pakishe Aaron, South Africa’s health minister.

"We have to make up for some lost time, but we are looking forward," Clinton said, in reference to what Washington called delays by the former South African government in addressing the health crisis. - Al Jazera

My Solution to Zimbabwe

I think the international community should setup a relief fund in south Africa. Since the South African president "Jacob Zuma, is very prepared to engage as far as he can" I'm sure he wouldn't mind a fund setup in his country. But instead of a fund being setup just for handing out food, it should be for basic needs first yes, but also for training the Zimbabweans for farming, engineering, city planning, city administration, mining and industry. This fund needs to prepare them with the necessary capability to return to their country and run it autonomously. Supposedly this is what the peace corps was set in place for, but I doubt they would go to such lengths. Usually the peace corps is comprised of 22 year old hippie kids, fresh out of college, with the propensity to not bathe.

Mugabe took his country by surprise when he ousted the white settlers, which I see nothing wrong with, but instead of preparing his country for rulership, he was taken control of by the IMF World Bank

The IMF and World Bank have been empowered by the governments which control it (led by the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Germany, France, Canada, and Italy -- the "Group of 7," which holds over 40% of the votes on their boards) with imposing economic austerity policies in the countries of the so-called "Third World" or "global South." Once Southern countries build up large external debts, as most have, they cannot get credit or cash anywhere else and are forced to go to these international institutions and accept whatever conditions are demanded of them. None of the countries has emerged from their debt problems; indeed most countries now have much higher levels of debt than when they first accepted IMF/World Bank "assistance."

While most would demonize Robert Mugabe, once I heard he was dealing with the IMF, I knew the man didn't have a chance. Without even looking at the history, I'm sure they have him over a barrel, the likes of which he can't recover from. If Zimbabwe were smart [it's just an expression mind you, I have heard they were the most educated population once] they would offer terms of exile for Mugabe and his party, with all of the wealth he could take with him, with the condition that he never return and that the IMF seek their retribution from him, and not Zimbabwe.

If you want to see a rich country taken into abject poverty, go look up the story of Venezuela. A lot of people cannot get over the racial factor of Zimbabwe. I know that is myopic of them, that's why I present the case of Venezuela. If it could happen to white people, it can happen to anyone. Anyone who deals with greedy corporate banking is in a world of hurt. The European countries obviously are not the great humanitarians they portray themselves to be. This is the oldest trick in the book. It's simply the modern colonialism.

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