Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "How Mugabe became Africa's Fallen Angel | A Brief History of Robert Mugabe" video.

  1. Exactly. And sadly in the end, the woman traded one abuser for another.
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  2. And also led by far-left revolutionary ideologues.
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  3. @R Hermit And is responsible for 70% of the wealth generated in the country.
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  4.  @barryah4132  Hardly. It sounds more every other country that embraced socialism via revolution. China, Russia, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Cuba, etc.
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  5.  @thunberbolttwo3953  And Britain was right in cancelling the land deal as Mugabe was giving the land to his cronies as to the dispossessed people he claimed to be the champion of.
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  6. No. It was yet another country torn apart by Marxism.
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  7.  @donovanlocust1106  Except he didn't know how to do such and killed off those who actually did.
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  8. What power? Black Zimbabweans have been every bit as powerless under Mugabe and Mnangagwa as they were under Smith.
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  9. Like Idi Amin? <Given the land to competent persons and just party lobbyists.> That was the beginning of his downfall. Instead of giving the land to the Black farmers that actually knew how to farm from the experience gained from working for Whites, he gave the land to party stooges. As a result, a decline in food production and eventual famine.
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  10. LOL. The only Africans Mugabe uplifted were his family and political henchmen.
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  11. Rigged elections.
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  12.  @manovrsb  Exactly.
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  13. Especially after independence.
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  14. LOL. So you're saying that Africans can't think for themselves and recognize BS from their leaders?
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  15. By declaring independence from Britain?
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  16. Obiang-Nguema Mugabe Bokassa Mengistu Barre Toure Al-Bashir Dos Santos Mobutu Amin Bongo Eyadema
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  17. Easy to say when Mugabe was in no position to kill Iraq, Syria, etc.
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  18.  @maintaintogrow  <Because in your feeble mind Afrikans are incapable of tending to lands they've been on for thousands of years!> This is about mass farming that feeds whole nations, not subsistence farming that barely feeds beyond first cousins.
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  19.  @erickrasniewski567  Getting rid of the colonizer wasn't the problem. The problem was replacing him with peasants who couldn't produce like him and political stooges who couldn't care less about producing.
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  20. You expect compassion from a Marxist?
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  21. Uganda and Zimbabwe went backwards, because the people they replaced the immigrants with were just simply not good enough to maintain the same level of production the immigrants established.
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  22.  @DickCheneyXX  Maybe so, but still the Apartheid Regime had to go.
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  23.  @jett_power  Or the black Zimbabweans who knew how to farm but were denied land.
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  24.  @Deontjie  The irony!
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  25. Venezuela before Venezuela as Mugabe was Chavez/Maduro before Chavez/Maduro.
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  26.  @duncandeeks3639  Namely his cronies. The white man was right in "breaking" his promise. Why should he bankroll and support Mugabe's regime?
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  27. As in the case of virtually all revolutions. The freedom-fighters and liberators eventually become the new oligarchs and oppressors they overthrew.
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  28. 1) Because the land that Mugabe expropriated from the White farmers didn't go to the Zimbabwean people as England agreed to compensate but his political cronies including those from Mozambique. 2) and 3). LOL.
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  29. Why is there no mention of the destructive economic policies that led to Zimbabwe having to run to the IMF in the first place?
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  30.  @autodidact537  And it was the Chinese that got Mugabe ousted and put his right-hand man in charge.
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  31. Revolutionaries being revolutionaries?
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  32. LOL. Liberating his people from White oppression to subjecting his people to Black oppression. Namely himself.
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  33. Not true. But he did want his wife to take over.
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  34. In all fairness, Lesotho is entirely surrounded by and dependent on South Africa for its survival.
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  35. Nkrumah set a negative precedent for post-colonialist Africa.
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  36. Just like communism inside of Europe. Remember Yugoslavia?
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  37. Namely the left.
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  38. Believe it or not, most African countries still don't have particularly open economies. So in a way, yeah!
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  39.  @daveholland6293  LMAO
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  40.  @Loyal2.RickOwensWayne  Caused by corruption and mismanagement. Actually it was Labour Party-run UK that created Mugabe as he was a product of their decolonization efforts.
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  41. <African nations like these need what is called a benevolent dictatorship which is basically what they had before.> But Africans hardly benefited from that.
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  42.  @jackdscholar88  Thanks to his successor letting them back in.
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  43. The sanctions were nothing compared to the Soviet collapse and the subsequent loss of aid that ultimately did Cuba in.
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  44. Seize land from White farmers and give to government stooges like the Marxist he was.
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  45. Exactly.
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  46. Or being a kulak in Lenin's Soviet Union.
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  47. Exactly.
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  48. Exactly.
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  49.  @donovanlocust1106  From yesterday's liberator to tomorrow's oppressor.
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  50.  @orbit5311  Only after his Marxist ideas ran its course and brought the country to ruin.
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  51.  @viceroy___  Doesn't make him any less right.
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  52. LOL. Mugabe was an opportunist like every other Marxist revolutionary freedom-fighter of his ilk.
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  53. Tell that to the Ndebele tribe he had slaughtered.
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  54.  @JEDN-kw2tu  Not really. Aside from Kagame, most African leaders are Chinese puppets.
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  55. True.
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  56. Sankara and Lumumba in the former and Mugabe in the latter.
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  57.  @jazzip  Thanks to oil.
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  58. They're both Marxist far-left.
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  59. Simple. Africa wanted nothing to do with Britain and America. And if they decided to do something, Africa would accuse them if interference. Damned if they do, damned with they don't.
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  60. And decolonization.
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  61. And you speak like a person who never had the misfortune of being born and having to live under Mugabe's rule. After all, most of Mugabe's supporters don't live in Zimbabwe.
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  62. But he was a Western media darling for a moment. Especially left-wing media.
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  63. Like what South Africa currently has?
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  64. <Despite his shortcomings, he had his people at heart> Namely his family and (political) friends.
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  65. He allowed Whites to keep the money and land.
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  66.  @souvikrc4499  Also the Nguemas and Jammehs.
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  67. LOL. Mugabe gave land to his political allies including those who weren't even from Zimbabwe but Mozambique. The natives, namely those who knew how to farm, were chased out along with their White employers. Mandela was not going to bite the hand that fed him as Whites were responsible for South Africa's prosperity, plus his original plans to overthrow the Apartheid regime died with the Soviet Union that backed him. And by the way, the ANC was founded by White Russians.
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  68. The Regime's crimes were too egregious for even the biggest conservative in the West to defend which was why the UK and Canada under conservative leadership voluntarily imposed sanctions while the US initially opposed sanctioning South Africa but caved in to Democrat-controlled Congress.
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  69. That's because his original plans to overthrow the Apartheid regime died with the Soviet Union that backed him.
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  70. And Botswana had it worse at independence.
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  71. Only after sanctions from the UK crippled its economy.
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  72. He was an opportunist.
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  73.  @grahamt5924  With the complicity of other Europeans. namely bleeding hearts, activists and leftists.
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  74. That probably explains why Sankara and Lumumba are so heavily praised. They died before they had a chance to show their true colors.
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