Some articles on white farmers, farmers:
2005, the government, led by central bank governor Gideon Gono, started making overtures that white farmers could come back ... In January 2007, the government even let some white farmers sign long term leases ... at the same time, the government continued to demand that all remaining white farmers, who were given eviction notices earlier, vacate the land or risk being arrested ...
... of farming land still remains in the hands of white farmers the requirement that claimants for restoration of land seized during the apartheid era make a ... Regardless, crime against white farmers receives strong media coverage ... against land reforms fear that by removing commercial farmers from their land and dividing up the land to poor urbanized people with no comprehension ...
Famous quotes containing the words farmers and/or white:
“Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may. I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, coöperate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn’t seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can’t find it when I take the suit off.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)