Mugabe's vision of sharing

The 3rd of October, Marthe presented us an article from the Guardian about the situation in Zimbabwe. Mugabe, the Zimbabwean dictator, has ruined his country and has expropriated White landowners on racial criteria. According to Mugabe, they were expelled because they were acting like colonialist. For David Smith, the author of the article, on the one hand Mugabe and is allies own 40% of the land seized from the Whites farmers. On the other hand, the rest of the Zimbabwean people are dying of starvation.

Marthe asked us two questions after her presentation of the article:

• Do you think that the presence of multinational companies is necessary to develop the economy of a country?
• Do you think that it's better for a country to keep family production or to get a whole market production system?

If we agreed on the fact that multinational companies and a market production system could make the country more competitive, we also agreed on the fact that most of the time, the wages were too low to survive decently. Joseph insisted on the fact that Africa has been able to feed herself for centuries so that it should still be the case. If we obliged African people to accept the developed countries help to be more competitive, it would be neocolonialism.
Alizée raised a polemical point: she thinks that Black poor people don't have the skills anymore to rule their country and its economy on their own. She thinks that we should protect them some time from corruption and teach them how to rule Zimbabwe.
To the others' mind, the western model brought to them has created so many troubles that they should be allowed to make their own mistakes. Finally, everybody agreed when Arnaud said that the problem was the brutality of the expropriations. If they had been slower, Black people could have learned how to rule a farm for example.

According to me, Mugabe did the mistake Mandela avoided: he said that Zimbabwe was only for Black people whereas Mandela said that South Africa was the country of both White and Black people. This is the main point because now Zimbabwe is going to refuse any help from White people, even if it’s totally free. Surely one day Zimbabweans will know how to rule a country, feed a population… but this will not be before a long time and the whole population will still die of starvation during this time.