With all the issues happening in the middle east with Afghanistan's terrorism issues and Iran's nuclear ambition and censorship of it's people and then down to south east Asia with the Korean's shooting at each other both at sea and at the border and the Chinese retaliating at the US over arms deals with Taiwan. Africa has been left out of the spotlight.
You have good news such as February 11th, 2010 was the anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release. But then you also have what is occurring in Zimbabwe.
The politicians of Zimbabwe are quickly and blindly destroying that country. Now Zimbabwe has slowly gone down the tube since Robert Mugabe’s 'land redistribution’ policy, under which Zimbabwe’s white-owned farms have been brutally plundered and ownership given to black Zimbabweans. One white farmer, who received a serious beating after he petitioned a tribunal of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to rule against Mr Mugabe's efforts to seize white owned farms, even made a documentary showing the plight that Zimbabweans white farm owners were experiencing. The land taken from some 4,000 productive white Zimbabwean farmers, often with violent force, has been handed almost exclusively to Mugabe’s cohorts. A lot of his cohorts probably didn't have experience in farming so one of the countries best income generators was now being flushed down the toilet. Even with Zimbabwe's economy doing an epic fail, did Mugabe re-think the policy and change it to avoid Zimbabwe's economy from collapsing? No, why would it when he is getting rich from this and favors in all areas from manufacturing to military? And if push comes to shove, he can always flee with his riches. I bet most of his accounts are in US Dollars seeing the government considers it legal tender for there transactions.
Now he is taking it to the next level cause farms weren't enough. Mugabe is now demanding that all foreign and locally owned companies hand over at least 51 per cent ownership to black Zimbabweans.
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