Mugabe’s New Best Friends
by Ian Mosley
Well, folks, it’s time we took another look at that paradise of black rule, Zimbabwe. You know, the southern African nation that used to be called Rhodesia, and which under white rule was an advanced and economically vibrant society that actually exported food to the rest of Africa. Under international pressure the last white prime minister Ian Smith surrendered the White-run nation to black communists. They “liberated” the country from “evil white racism” and established a Marxist black dictatorship, where millions of black people are now starving or have fled. That Zimbabwe.
The Zimbabwean.com web site reports “Tazivei, a tough-looking 30 year-old, works at the S&M brickworks outside Harare, and he’s just been paid. He should be a happy man, but he’s not. He’s covered in bites from lice, his hands and feet are corrugated with painful cracks, he works in filthy conditions and his pay is miserably low. Tazivei works for the Chinese. The Chinese are Mugabe’s new friends. China is currently the world’s biggest investor in Zimbabwe, and Chinese-owned businessmen flourish here (the southern part of Harare has become known as China City).” (As a historical aside, the first Asians that Mugabe brought in were the North Koreans, who provided troops in the mid-1980s to maintain Mugabe’s Marxist one-party state in power and slaughter his tribal and political enemies.) (more…)