I wonder how they determine the "lucky" ones? And if I was a farmer in Zimbabwe, would I really want to be a "lucky" one? Or just dump my losses and get out while there is still time?

dump my losses and get out while there is still time?

Have you checked out the exchange rate lately? I don't think they could leave even if they wanted to...they would have to leave with suitcases only and start from scratch...not an easy thing to do.

I honestly don't know, but I do know that there must be few whites in Zimbabwe who support a tyrant who has crushed a country into economic misery and hopelessness.

Isn't there some British bloke farming over there - who was accused of murdering an Indian family over here in the UK (I think Van Hoogstraten)he is supposedly a big buddy of Mugabes and throws a lot of support to him to remain in his farm...I seem to recall something about a British reporter being threatened by him when she questioned him about the support he has given Mugabe and about his shenanigans here in the UK. More fool him for Mugabe is rotten to the core...and no doubt he will be attacked and chucked out out some point by Mugabes henchmen as the noose tightens around his neck as Mugabe squeezes him for more and more money.

I had a friend over there (killed many years ago) whose mother farms and she has been fighting the good fight to keep her farm and protect the workers she employs...the last I heard from his brother in New Zealand was that his mum was at the end of her tether, I had some money over there that I could do nothing with and offered to give it to her to use toward any legal costs she had - but she refused it - the money has since been given to the SPCA. I have lost touch with my friends brother so do not know if she is still on her farm or not.

Mugabe has raped a prosperous country and left nothing in his wake - when his syphilis eventually kills him, his legacy will take years to undo and repair.

Have you checked out the exchange rate lately? I don't think they could leave even if they wanted to...they would have to leave with suitcases only and start from scratch...not an easy thing to do.

I suppose death is an easier out, but it is also the last option anyone can exercise. The situation is such that it is time to pack those suitcases and start over. Mugabe has made sure that whatever assets they have, other than the land, is worthless, and that their land is no longer theirs, but the property of the state.

The situation is such that it is time to pack those suitcases and start over.

be that as it may - a lot of these white farmers are over 60 so would be penniless now...it is still a very hard thing to have to do and to deal with..I do not envy them one bit, tough very very tough times for them.

Also a more destitute nation provides many more willing recruits. Prosperity is the enemy of would-be warlords.

Ugh...people are stupid, 'nough said.

~Zoo

In a sense biting the very hands that fed him, because it was with the help of white farmers that he started the program that would help to improve farming in his country.

He's become filled with the hate that power sometimes brings to some people. In a sense his ways reminds me of the infamous Idi Amin. Much like what happened to Amin, his fall will be imminent. Until then the unfortunate people will be suffering at his hands.

Foreverserenity: "....his fall will be imminent."

Hope so but he will probably be succeeded by another tyrant.

succeeded by another tyrant

And another and another...

It was greed, racial hatred, and avarice that brought this man to power, the allure of getting something for nothing, the promise of free land and farms for those who haven't the slightest clue as to how to actually work the land for profit and had done nothing to earn the opportunity itself.

Well said.

I would have thought the white farmers who got out of there with their lives in tact were the lucky ones.