I'm operating purely from memory here (which is always a dicey proposition), but didn't Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) do pretty much the same thing a few decades ago and "redistribute" all the farms from white farmers to black farmers? ...and as a result, Rhodesia soon found themselves starving due to poor production and an incoherent distribution system?
Purkiss, correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems to be the way I recall it happening there.
Exactly...except I would say no production and no distribution system. Farms were left to ruin and overgrowth. The white farmers emigrated, many to Zambia. Mugabe is now dead, thank God, but the Zimbabweans still struggle to have any economy.
Not a true generality. Plenty of black farmers in Zambia. But poor and limited by lack of machinery and irrigation. In Zimbabwe, the whites managed the farms and the blacks were undoubtedly skilled labor, but if you unplug the management and the crew is left to plan, budget, etc. without training, it does not succeed. Similarly with maintenance of large utilities. Labor is there to do the work. Management is there to determine how to do the work, when to do the work, how to repair the machinery, how to coordinate the work, how to pay for the work, and what work to do. In short, Mugabe was a vicious idiot, not to realize this.
Aliko Dangote in NIgeria created an immense business in cement and concrete, as one example. It is very instructive to simply take a photo tour of all the African capital cities (type a name, search, and pick "images"). Some of them are surprisingly modern, even more so than ours. No whites required. Try Lagos, Nigeria, for example.
You are correct, but the redistribution didn't happen until after all the farm equipment was 'redistributed' to the ruling party's cronies, who promptly sold it off.
A very good movie to watch is “Empire of Dust”, it tells you all you need to know about our future engineers and scientists arriving by the boatload daily.
I'm operating purely from memory here (which is always a dicey proposition), but didn't Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) do pretty much the same thing a few decades ago and "redistribute" all the farms from white farmers to black farmers? ...and as a result, Rhodesia soon found themselves starving due to poor production and an incoherent distribution system?
Purkiss, correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems to be the way I recall it happening there.
💯 spot on....
Exactly...except I would say no production and no distribution system. Farms were left to ruin and overgrowth. The white farmers emigrated, many to Zambia. Mugabe is now dead, thank God, but the Zimbabweans still struggle to have any economy.
Which to me raises the question, are native Africans incapable of managing large scale farms? ....or for that matter, any large business?
Not a true generality. Plenty of black farmers in Zambia. But poor and limited by lack of machinery and irrigation. In Zimbabwe, the whites managed the farms and the blacks were undoubtedly skilled labor, but if you unplug the management and the crew is left to plan, budget, etc. without training, it does not succeed. Similarly with maintenance of large utilities. Labor is there to do the work. Management is there to determine how to do the work, when to do the work, how to repair the machinery, how to coordinate the work, how to pay for the work, and what work to do. In short, Mugabe was a vicious idiot, not to realize this.
Aliko Dangote in NIgeria created an immense business in cement and concrete, as one example. It is very instructive to simply take a photo tour of all the African capital cities (type a name, search, and pick "images"). Some of them are surprisingly modern, even more so than ours. No whites required. Try Lagos, Nigeria, for example.
I'll take your word for it, as I've never been to Africa and have no plans to go there. Interesting answer though.
You are correct, but the redistribution didn't happen until after all the farm equipment was 'redistributed' to the ruling party's cronies, who promptly sold it off.
A very good movie to watch is “Empire of Dust”, it tells you all you need to know about our future engineers and scientists arriving by the boatload daily.