HARARE – Several top Zimbabwean opposition officials have received cheaper-priced farm machinery funded by the government under its controversial land reforms despite previously denying benefiting from a scheme widely seen as an extension of President Robert Mugabe’s network of patronage. More...
Courtesy of Zimonline.co.za
3 comments:
Never look a gift horse in the mouth?
I don't really care if these guys accepted a tractor or two or not. In the large scheme of things it does not affect the larger issues that are the problem.
To condemn they would be silly, I have Bush and everything he stands for but when the tax rebate checks came in the mail as a result of his foolish tax cuts I was still glad to spend the money, on principle I was against the tax cut. But what was I going to do? Give it back??
This story is foolish. I will say that those MDC officials who accepted tractors should not have denied receiving them.
I see the Mr. Matambura was also accused of receiving a tractor and did not.
About the Bush taxes example, it shows your first class hypocrisy (that you even strive to justify) that you accept things you ethically do not subscribe to. So one might think that you can accept ill gotten gains as long as they benefit you. Your morals are suspect. If I dont believe in the taxes I would certainly take it back. How can you criticise the land reform and still participate in it. Effectively it means for the land reform to have said to happen is because someone woud have been given land. therefore its crazy for anyone to criticise the land reform when he is an agent of it, part of it. That's why I think your reasoning is akward.
Well, whether the story is good or foolish is for you to wrestle with. I dont care how its like but what I know is that MDC people are part of the land reform. Kuthula is not!!!! I am only a cheerleader for the MDC supporters to participate in feeding the nation.
All I have to say is that I live in the real world. In this real world morals are not what puts food on the table. I can scream as loud as I want what my beliefs are and the things that I would like to see happen, but at the end of the day I live in a world where my beliefs may not be part of the reality, so I am brave enough to say that although I didn't agree with the Bush tax cuts I was glad to take the three hundred back from the goverment.
Equating the tax cuts with the farm invasions is a terrible analogy. The tax cuts were not taking from one group to give to another, it was simply a refund of your own money that you had paid in income taxes. I would not feel like a thief for taking my own money back from the government. Secondly the story you reported on was not about tha land grab by Zanu PF, it was about the distribution of farming equipment, it said nothing about these guys having received land under the land reform program. As far as I am aware these farming tools were purchased and not taken from one group to be given freely to another.
I know the difference may be subtle to you but the difference to a normal reader plain.
As you like to say please point out to me where in my discussion I spoke about land reform, please cut and paste as I did in your case.
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