"Die verskil tussen jou en my is dat ons
verwysingsraamwerke verskil. Ek kyk na
groter dele van die geskiedenis en weeg
dan teen daardie groter agtergrond die
huidige toestande in. Wat het gebeur in
Kenia in die middel van die twintigste
eeu? Kenyatta en sy Mau-Mau het koel en
doelbewus besluit dat die witmense uit
hulle tradisionele landerye verwilder moet
word. Hulle het sistematies wit boere en
wit huisgesinne uitgemoor en dan weer in
die bos verdwyn. Die tegniek was suksesvol.
Dit het die proses van wit padgee van lande
waar swart mense gebly het en weer wou bly,
verhaas. Gelukkig vir Kenia was daar 'n
Labour regering in Engeland in daardie tyd
wat daadwerklik plase van wittes opgekoop
het (geen gewillige verkoper storie nie) en
die swart mense daarop help vestig het. Dis
daarom dat ons geen groot plaasbesettings in
Kenia gehad het nie. Wat gaan toe nog ook
in die tweede helfte van die twintigste eeu
in Afrika aan? Die handjievol wittes aan die
suidpunt van Afrika begin 'n beleid van
grondbesettings om witmense te verseker dat
hulle altyd in wit areas sal bly. Die wereld
kyk aan maar doen eers iets hier in die tagtigs
daadwerklik. Intussen probeer Smith dieselfde
taktiek in Zimbabwe, en moet eers na 'n bosoorlog
die handdoek ingooi. Nou kom Mugabe aan bewind.
Toegegee, hy is nou nie so 'n roos tussen die
dorings nie, maar vir twintig jaar doen hy amper
niks aan grondhervorming nie, totdat hy gedwing
word deur sy eie volgelinge wat vra waarom hulle
'n oorlog geveg het as daar geen beweging is nie.
Sien, Wouter, dis teen hierdie agtergrond dat ek
na Mugabe kyk, en dan sien ek dat hy nou nie eintlik
die wreedste of die koelbloedigste van die diktators
was wat in Afrika in die tweede helfte van die
twintigste eeu was nie. Vir my vat die (amper geheel
gedomineer deur Afrikaners) Nasionale Party onder
mense soos P.W. Botha nog altyd die koek. En ander
mense stem met my saam. Dawie van die Burger het
eenkeer gesê ons Afrikaners moet maar ons bekke hou
oor wat nou anderkant ons grense gebeur."
Dis uit die onderstaande duidelik dat Mugabe nie 'n rassis is nie. Hy is
'n gewone magsbehepte skelm. En dat sy idee van grondhervorming is
om plase te gee vir onder meer sy ryk pêlle wat in Brittanje gestudeer
het en reeds groot huise het.
Wouter
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Essex woman rants against 'whites' as she takes over a snatched
Zimbabwe farm
By Jane Flanagan in Harare and Andrew Alderson
(Filed: 22/09/2002)
A white British woman who formerly worked as a local government
officer in Essex is the latest and most unlikely beneficiary of Robert
Mugabe's land-grab policy in Zimbabwe.
Anne Matonga and her black Zimbabwean husband, Bright, have been
given possession of a 1,500-acre farm after it was seized from a white
farmer on the orders of the President.
Mrs Matonga's new home, which the farmer and his family had lived
on for four generations, is a reward for her husband's support of
Mugabe, whose dictatorial policies are responsible for Zimbabwe
being ostracised by much of the outside world.
Mr Matonga, 34, was until recently the head of the pro-Mugabe
Zimbabwean Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and now works for
another government department.
Last week Mrs Matonga, 39, tended spring roses at her new home,
while the rightful owners, Vincent and Monica Schultz, tried to get
accustomed to their new life in a tiny flat in Harare, the capital.
Despite moving to Zimbabwe only last year after a lifetime in Britain,
Mrs Matonga last week spoke angrily, and without a hint of irony,
against the "white colonialists who stole our land".
Mrs Matonga, who married her husband in Britain five years ago,
praised President Mugabe for his "patience with the racist white
farmers" as she spoke to The Telegraph at her new home in
Banket, 50 miles north of Harare. She said those evicted by force
"only have themselves to blame".
Mrs Matonga, speaking in a broad south Essex accent, dismissed as
"nothing but propaganda" reports of widespread starvation across
Zimbabwe and allegations that Mugabe had won this year's election
by vote-rigging and crushing any opposition.
As personal bodyguards from Mugabe's feared youth militia slept
under nearby trees, Mrs Matonga told how she regularly has to
counter "negative" stories about the crisis in Zimbabwe. "Britain
should keep its nose out of Zimbabwe. Tony Blair has no right
to interfere," she said.
After delivering her diatribe, Mrs Matonga returned to supervising
the crop of roses that had been planted earlier this year by Mr and
Mrs Schultz, who are now living in a borrowed two-bedroom flat
in Harare where they say they are "suffering endless sleepless nights".
The Matongas, who also have a spacious house in a prosperous suburb
of Harare, were "resettled" on the farm last month, for which they had
to pay nothing. There were, however, extraordinary scenes at
Mupandagutu Farm when the Matongas arrived at the gate to
"reclaim her land".
Mr Schultz had been arrested by the police for defying the eviction
order only minutes before. "Mrs Matonga was screaming at me:
'Get off our land: we are taking back what you stole from our
forefathers'," said Mrs Schultz. "I thought it was a remarkable
thing for her to say since she was clearly white and British."
Mr Schultz, 57, is now virtually penniless. The couple, who are
among more than 3,000 white Zimbabwean farmers being handed
eviction orders, spent the last of their savings - �11,000 - on
severance packages for their 130 workers. Despite this they
received an angry call from Mr Matonga on his mobile telephone
demanding the return of irrigation pipes they had sold to pay their staff.
"We are feeling very bitter about the whole thing," said Mr Schultz. "We
are left with absolutely nothing." His wife was born 58 years ago on the
farm, which her family bought in the 1920s.
In Britain, the behaviour of Bright and Anne Matonga has angered
former friends and acquaintances, many of whom campaigned for
Mr Matonga to be allowed to complete his degree when he faced
being sent back to Zimbabwe.
Inquiries by The Telegraph have revealed that the Matongas met in
Essex during the mid-1990s while she worked for the county council
and he was a student at South East Essex College in Southend-on-Sea.
As Mr Matonga neared the end of his degree, he faced being
ordered out of Britain by the Home Office for not meeting the
requirements of a university student. However, Sir Teddy Taylor,
his local Conservative MP, successfully campaigned on his behalf.
After graduating, Mr Matonga worked as a journalist with ZBC
and also for the BBC World Service, before last year going back
to live in Zimbabwe where he was promised a job by Jonathan
Moyo, the information minister.
Mr Matonga was made the head of television services at ZBC.
He is currently the chief executive officer of the state-owned
Zimbabwe United Passenger Company.
Sir Teddy, MP for Rochford and Southend East, was surprised
to learn this weekend of the behaviour of the Matongas, who
now have a four-year-old son.
Mr Matonga had appeared to be an intelligent, well-educated
man, said Sir Teddy. "I am saddened and disappointed if he
has turned out to be a rascal, a thug and a vagabond: one of
Mugabe's henchman."
Klaarblyklik is dit berig dat Mev Mbeki (wat saam met Thabo bly)
wederregtelik 'n huis in haar nooiensvan aangekoop het - en dit nou vir
dubbel die aankoopprys wil verkoop.
Ek sien die volgende is in die koerante oor die vermeende regse
komplotters:
Mnr. Michael Tesherdt du Toit, vermeende meesterbrein agter die
staatsgreepplan, was vir 11 jaar 'n dosent aan die Vista-universiteit
in Mamelodi, buite Pretoria, voordat hy in Augustus verlede jaar 'n
skeidingspakket aanvaar het.
Sy broer, André Tibert, het vir agt jaar as polisiekaptein gewerk in
die afdeling nasionale inligtingstelsels.
Op 1 April 1999 is hy oorgeplaas na die
staatsinligtingstegnologie-agentskap (Sita) nadat sy afdeling
geprivatiseer is.
Hy het daarna bedank en het tot voor sy arrestasie as onderwyser
rekenaarstudie by die Hoërskool Warmbad aangebied.
Hy het 'n nasionale hoër sertifikaat in rekenaardataverwerking.
Nog 'n beskuldigde, mnr. Johan Herman Scheepers, het vir 20 jaar as
senior ingenieursassistent by Eskom gewerk voordat hy in 1999 'n
pakket geneem het.
Nou wonder ek waar is mense soos "Krokkie" en "Frikkie" en so aan wat
altyd hier gepos het. Pos hulle nog hier?
Daar word gesoek na 500 mense in SA om deel te neem aan 'n opname oor
kondome.
Dis 'n wêreldwye opname - so hoekom daar so baie van hier moet wees laat
mens wonder))
Ons is glo die derde aktiefste nasie seksueel gesproke ter wêreld - sou nie
so kon dink van die aantal mense wat Ilse Marie se mannewales nie kon
hanteer nie;))
Annette
Die dokter wat voor die hof gedaag is ivm sy beweerde betrokkenheid met die
verregse beplande bewindsoorname het 'n Afrikaanse van.
Hoekom is ek nie verbaas nie?
Annette
Die staat dink hulle het 'n bietjie te ver gegaan in hul ywerigheid tov
batebeslaglegging. Hulle het selfs beslag gelê op 'n grafsteen van eienaars
van 'n piramideskema.
Annette
Wouter
Hey Weirdo, waar val jy uit!
Ek het jou gemis, hoe gaan dit?
Is jy al getrek :-)
Danielle:
Hey Plaasvark. :-) Nee, nogsteeds nie getrek nie nogsteeds so
nugter en vroom soos altyd! :-)))
Het gou vanaand kom inloer. Dis was mos altyd lekker om met jou te
stry? :-)))
Maar ja - ons is nou in ons nuwe huis, en dit begin darem nou na 'n
"tuiste" voel.
Gesels weer later. :-)
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