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Is South Africa turning into Zimbabwe?, Scotland Herald

“Hardly a decade from now, Zimbabwe will be our destination, our reality,” wrote Barney Mthombothi in his column in this weekend’s Financial Mail, South Africa’s equivalent of The Economist.

From African jewel to basket case: Looking back at Mugabe's Zimbabwe, National Post

Seven years ago, after he started seizing his country's white-owned farms, the former school teacher eagerly compared himself to Adolf Hitler.

Indigenisation Law Is Second Rape of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Mail

The implosion of the Zimbabwean economy, which led to hyper-inflation and pushed millions to the brink of starvation, has been generally attributed by analysts the world over to its land grabs which turned the once powerful agricultural sector into a disaster of epic proportions.

Zimbabwe's Indigenisation Policy, and South Africa's BEE, are the same policy, Newstime

Why would anyone, except the Chinese and Arabs, invest in South Africa in those circumstances? Arabs and Chinese are classified black. And the irony is that blacks are not the indigenous populations of Southern Africa anyhow.

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