Quite a humorous narrative, but yes indeed, we could be singing the same song for Mozambique in a few decades if that long. For Gambia too because a good portion of our land is being denied to the rightful owners either because it is being priced out of their reach or simply literally pried from their clenched fists, ending up in the hands of non-Gambians.
I know one old Ex-Rhodesian living in Cape Town who used to be one of those big land farmers in former Rhodesia and he tells me that the government of Mozambique has offered to let him come farm a huge area in Mozambique if he can come up with the funds to do so and his plan? To get some of his displaced Ex-Rhodesian buddines to come join him and he will allocate them plots to farm. He was referred to me because he is looking for project funding and I have since decided to adopt the strategy of keeping him in permanent limbo by making him believe I am working diligently on it.
Yes indeed, it seems that for every step forward, we take three or four backwards.
Jabou Joh
-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: No extra term for Chirac / Zimbabwe opposition leader detained
“they care very much about who lost the land.” It would seem that there are good
economic relations between the caring ones and those who lost the land.
I have fully digested what you write and am in essential agreement with you and
should also like to point out that in Independent South Africa - at the end of
apartheid – 87% of the land was still legally ”owned/ leased” by Toubabous and
we should not reasonably – question the legality of some of those possessions.
On 31st of December 1986, just back from London, I betook me to a new year party
I had been invited to by a former Swedish model – it’s just that most all of the
other guests apart from an Irishman and two other Swedish women and me were all
South African, and so, I was so to speak, the PAC (one settler one bullet)
representative at the party. When I discovered the national composition of those
assembled to have some fun, I decided that I would represent the African people
as truly one of my grandmothers is from Ndar, Senegal, the other a full-bodied
Yoruba woman. So putting on my best” Guess who’s coming to dinner” dinner jacket
and armed with my instant Eddie Murphy-& Satchmo’s disarming ” What a wonderful
world” smile up to being seated round table for dinner to begin, I decided that
best behaviour here would be to have Desmond Tutu (without the Trinity) as role
–model behaviour so that no one would say behind my back ” the kaffir was
uncouth”
But things got a little out of hand. It was actually a Jewish guy from South
Africa who got me terribly irritated by saying ” Some intellectuals believe that
the ANC is counter-revolutionary” – the wine got the better of me, and I
completely forgot about Tutu.
One way of re-arming is by changing the subject. You could ask as if it’s an
emergency,”Excuse me, what time is it?”
So I moved away – in that bad mood, and went and sat myself down opposite the
mother and father of one of the guests, who had just sold their farm in South
Africa, and moved to Sweden.
Well, if you’ve ever had more than two bottles of wine in one evening and are
in a bad racist kind of mood and you feel that you are outnumbered, you might
tend to repeat yourself to gather strength or emphasise moral authority. So I
leaned forward and like what has been described as ” They arrive at your table
with teeth in a blood-curdling snarl” and I asked him (the dad) “Ok so you sold
your farm and relocated outside of Apartheid South Africa. For how much did you
buy it? How much did you sell it for? And please answer the question.”
His answer was reasonable and modest enough, but I launched into a lecture on
the immorality of Apartheid, and - before midnight, THAT was the end of the New
Year party. Still full of remorse about that evening. No fireworks. Everyone
went home. I stayed the night….
Now can we peek into the possible future land problem in Mozambique? There was
a mass exodus from South Africa, just before apartheid was placed under arrest.
Not so much Boers ; I don’t think, not after the Great Trek – but lots of Anglos
emigrated to Australia, Canada, UK, Hungary, Holland, Scotland, Zimbabwe, to
get away from what they feared would be revenge and punishment time from Black
majority rule.
I saw a Market Theatre production (here in Stockholm) which included scenes of
car theft – and many cars loaded with all worldly goods drove off to new
homelands in Mozambique, in steady streams, starting a few years ago. White
South African farmers, left South Africa for more virgin territory of Mozambique
which is where they BOUGHT LAND! Thirty years from now we could be hearing the
song ” Black is Black I want my country (/ Land) BACK! #” “
http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/mar11_2002.html
>
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Date: 2007/03/14 on AM 02:02:18 CET
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Ämne: Re: No extra term for Chirac / Zimbabwe opposition leader detained
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 5:19 PM
> Subject: Re: No extra term for Chirac / Zimbabwe opposition leader detained
>
> "anyway toubabus don't
>
> like Mugabe, basically because of his policy of taking farms from toubabus and
>
> giving them to his best friends ( Africans)."
> Frankly, the Toubabus could care less who Mugabe gave the land to, or the
welfare of the ordinary Zimbabwean for
>
> that matter, but you bet they care very much about who lost the land.
>
> They care about the plight of Zimbabweans only in so much as it can serve as a
tool to further their own propaganda
>
> campaign which they have waged since the Zimbabweans have taken their country
back. They just cannot get over it,
>
> but over it they must.
>
> The fact that Mugabe took the land from those who took what did not belong to
them and enslaved the rightful owners
>
> is what they cannot forgive him for. No defense of Mugabe's follies but there
are equally worse despots on the
>
> continent whose misdeed they have and continue to turn a deaf ear to, forging
ahead with business as usual always
>
> and no attention is devoted to the endless suffering of their victims and the
worse of these despots have been
>
> propped up by the very hypocrites devoting endless airtime to the
Zimbabwe/Mugabe smear campaign.
>
>
>
>
>
> Jabou Joh
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from
AOL at AOL.com.
>
> ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web
interface
> at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html
>
> To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l
> To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to:
> [log in to unmask]
> ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
>
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web
interface
at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html
To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l
To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to:
[log in to unmask]
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
________________________________________________________________________
AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.
To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface
at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html
To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l
To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to:
[log in to unmask]
|
