ZIMBABWE TO NATIONALISE FOREIGN COMPANIES
Riverman <[email protected]> wrote
> While I oppose the blatant confiscatory policies of Mugabe I DO find
> it problematic that one percent of the population owns ONE THIRD of
> the farmland.
Nymandhlovu Cleft Stick & Messenger, 16 July 2002.
From Debenture Khumalo, Financial Correspondent.
It is reported from Nyamandhlovu that Pres Mugabe has a New Grand Plan to
resolve Zimbabwe's economic crisis. (It is well known that Nyamandhlovu is
the centre of the financial universe, and any stories emanating from there
just have to be believed.)
A spokesman for the ZANU-PF government, Mr Prostate Punderai, explained that
it was absolutely untenable that the assets generating EIGHTY PER CENT of
Zimbabwe's revenues were owned by 0 per cent of the population.
"Dis is abbersolute disgressful," observed Mr Punderai. "Nought pissent ob
da pipple owning eighty pissent ob da minz ob produkshun."
He went on to explain that, as Zimbabwe depended on foreign donations for
eighty per cent of its revenues, the people of Zimbabwe had no ownership at
all in the various international companies that generated these revenues.
This was infinitely worse than the situation with farming.
He went on to explain that if the people of Zimbabwe owned General Motors,
Daimler-Benz, IBM, Volvo AB, British Aerospace, Singer Sewing Machine, SKF,
Dutch Shell, and other companies like them, then Zimbabwe would not be
dependent on charity at all. Instead, he said, these companies were all
owned by whities who were not even Zimbabweans, and Zimbabwe had to rely on
the G8 governments to grab what monies they could from these businesses in
order to prop up Zimbabwe.
"It be wrong, it be imorrel, it be racist, it be unfair," said Mr Ponderai.
Accordingly, ZANU-PF is to demand that negotiations be opened immediately
for the peaceful redistribution of these companies to the government of
Zimbabwe, as representatives of the rightful owners.
He warned that, if the whities do not agree to hand over the companies
immediately, the war vets would have no option but to take them by force.
A reporter from the Wall Street Journal asked if the ordinary Zimbabweans
had the ability to take over and run industrial giants such as IBM, General
Motors and the like.
"If they don't, the gubbermint will assist them, as it did in de kess ob de
fummers," answered Ponderai.
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