Clip 3: Why mobile phones are better than aid (Templeton Foundation)

[tigerone1970]

" reform was a racist policy "

An absurd claim, dreamed up by devout racists (Afriforum). The land was taken from Africans because of their race, and given to whites (any European) because of their race, between 1890 and 1980. 1% of the population owned nearly 50% of the country because of that. Obviously, redistribution will return land to blacks after 'taking' it from whites. That does not make land redistribution a 'racist' policy.

[tigerone1970]

Total fantasyland. Zimbabwe was never the 'breadbasket' of anything. The white farmers grew tobacco - cash crops. Black Zimbabweans grew food, and still do. White farmers never bought their land from anyone. That was never part of the Willing Buyer, Willing Seller scheme. Look at the land distribution map of 1965 (Wikipedia: zimbabwe land reform). That was the situation at independence.

The Zimbabwean economy was sabotaged by economic sanctions that came in force in 2002.

[tigerone1970]

The problem is that she still talks about poverty and aid, without mentioning the massive western ownership of African resources - millions of hectares of land, and the mines.

'Aid' is a substitute for revenues from Africa's own resources. There are food crises, because farmers do not have enough land.

Look at Zimbabwe before land reform. Most of the country's most productive land was used to grow tobacco - a cash crop, instead of food.

That is the kind of abuse that must stop.

[geordieracer222]

@tigerone1970 zimbabwe was the bread basket of africa, they managed to feed there nation as well as having cash crops. all that land reform did was take land from white farmers and gave to to black politicians and mugabe supporters. the fact is these farms are no longer run, and they have went backwards not forward. the fact is black or white the farmers were zimbabwean, land reform was a racist policy, nobody argued when these farmers bought the land to farm, nobody argued when they grew food

[sguardian870]

halelujah some1 in africa is awake and ready dambisa save that place and make all ur enemies squirm in their seats