Echoes of History: African ‘Decolonization’ and Economic Ruin

While listening to the unrivaled-in-excellence “Real Dictators” podcast  series by Noiser Network, in particular the episode covering communist “Zimbabwe” dictator Robert Mugabe, the narrator recounted his effort to galvanize political support by blaming white farmers for the economic failures of Rhodesia — later known as “Zimbabwe” after he overthrew the government in a communist coup, renamed the “liberated” country, and proceeded to run it into the ground while siphoning off massive amounts of wealth for himself and his cronies.

Then, he leveraged that blame to confiscate white farms and also unsubtly instigated black-on-white vigilante farm murders while looking the other way and, on some occasions, justifying racial violence.

If that sounds eerily familiar to the goings-on in another country in the region at this very moment in time, that’s because it’s essentially the same story.

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The African communist playbook: 

• Tank the economy via mismanagement and corruption
• Blame the highly productive, tiny white farmer minority
• Incite hatred for that minority
• Confiscate their farms
• Run the farms into the ground, just like the economy, by handing them over to incompetent blacks with no farming experience
• Blame white farmers for the farms’ failure
• Condemn the “international community” as racist for any criticism of its pogrom 

Via Human Rights Watch, 2002 (emphasis added):

The "fast track" land resettlement program implemented by the government of Zimbabwe over the last two years has led to serious human rights violations. The program's implementation also raises serious doubts as to the extent to which it has benefited the landless poor. The stated aim of the fast track program is to take land from rich white commercial farmers for redistribution to poor and middle-income landless black Zimbabweans. Under the program, however, ruling party militias, often led by veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation war, have carried out serious acts of violence against farm owners, farm workers, and, using occupied farms as bases for attacks, against residents of surrounding areas. The police have done little to halt such violence, and in some cases are directly implicated in the abuses. The process of allocating plots to those who want land has frequently discriminated against those who are believed to support opposition parties, and in some cases those supervising the process have required applicants to demonstrate support for the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF). Zimbabwe's several hundred thousand farm workers have been largely excluded from the program, and many have lost their jobs, driven from the farms where they work by violence or laid off because of a collapse in commercial agricultural production.

We see this exact scenario playing out in South Africa currently, almost to the letter. 

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Strategically, in the context of the recent granting of refugee status to South African white farmers persecuted by the regime next door to Zimbabwe, not that I would like to give advice to the race-baiting left, nor that they would ever read this, it would make so much sense to simply celebrate the arrival of a few dozen white refugees and then use their embrace of it as proof that their championing of tens of millions of “migrants” or color is not, actually, a Great Replacement scheme to displace whites from their homelands. 

But they can’t help themselves.

Like cats to catnip, they dive into the anti-white hate, encouraging the persecuted white farmers to “go back to Germany” (they’re not from Germany originally but Holland). 

Biden-Harris senior staffer supports taking land away from white South Africans who could "go back to Germany!!" (not USA) pic.twitter.com/IIgYI1SdME

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 13, 2025