Mugabe isn't a dictator?
Not in the strict definition of the word. And these days he's (forced to) share power with Morgan Tsvangerai.
He is, nevertheless, a powerhungry, corrupt and staggeringly incompetent politician.
Mugabe isn't a dictator?
I doubt that.
I don't see how this policy is even remotely defendable. If the law specified Zimbabwean majority ownership, rather than black majority ownership, then it would be defendable, even if complete lunacy, but no, it is just a further extension of Mugabe's racist policies continuing to drive the country much further into the ground they are already well and truly stuck in.
Not in the strict definition of the word. And these days he's (forced to) share power with Morgan Tsvangerai.
He is, nevertheless, a powerhungry, corrupt and staggeringly incompetent politician.
I guess they are willing to alienate 0.433% of the population for the good of the 99.567%.
But I do think all aboriginal whites deserve special treatment. Perhaps they can open casinos.
Not in the strict definition of the word. And these days he's (forced to) share power with Morgan Tsvangerai.
He is, nevertheless, a powerhungry, corrupt and staggeringly incompetent politician.
White is less than one percent and blacks are 98% according to the CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/zi.html
The 0.443% is from Wiki, in 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whites_in_Zimbabwe
I think that has already occurred.So massive capital flight out of Zimbabwe is going to help the 99.6%.
I couldn't agree more. They are clearly acting in a self-destructive manner.When Zimb passed its crazy land laws, they ostensibly were to create black-owned farms. Most of the land that was reclaimed went to the ruling black politicians and their families. What farms that did transfer to black ownership pretty much were destroyed in 5 years as the fertility left. This isn't a per se knock on the black owners, but a knock on pushing ownership with no working knowledge of modern farming in charge. A better idea would have been to educate potential black owners and then initiated a transfer but that would take decades.
Unless it's by the Chinese, whom are given lucrative contracts with the government and permitted 100% foreign ownership. But I'm sure you knew that...I want to make it clear that I am certainly no Mugabe supporter. I just understand what the leadership of Zimbabwe are trying to accomplish by enacting laws which try to address the previous foreign exploitation of their natural resources and citizens.
It doesn't say 51% of foreign businesses though. White Zimbabwean citizens won't be allowed to control their own companies if they become too large. That's racist whichever way you look at it.
What makes you think they will be exempt from the new law?Unless it's by the Chinese, whom are given lucrative contracts with the government on 99-year land leases and permitted 100% foreign ownership. But I'm sure you knew that...
They're Mugabe's closest ally?What makes you think they will be exempt from the new law?
No, it's based on being able to read between the lines and knowing anything about Zimbabwe's foreign policy during the last 10 years. You don't have to be a Rhodesia (pun intended) scholar to know that a corrupt autocratic regime is going to make exemptions for the country that supplies it with aid, arms, loans, and investments.So I'm supposed to "know" about your own obvious speculations in the matter?
Eminem might want to deinvest in Zimbabwe now, huh?
So you're... Actually, I have no idea what the hell you're doing here.As opposed to the previous racist and highly corrupt white exploiters of black nations?