THE Commercial Farmers Union has made a strange proposal to work with the ZANU (PF) Government which it has hitherto considered illegitimate, and whose president, Comrade Robert Mugabe, and service chiefs are still under sanctions invited by the same body.

While the proposal purports to look at the main challenges and solutions facing agricultural and economic development in Zimbabwe, the curious thing in their analysis is the total obliviousness to the fact that they are Zimbabwe’s biggest problem.
But, before the CFU proposal, there had been a selective removal of illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation meant to benefit European nations from Zimbabwe’s diamonds and other strategic mineral resources.
Together with the CFU proposal, the ZMDC sanctions removal should be perceived not as a western policy aberration but as racist modus operandi with sinister precedents that must better inform the ZANU (PF) government’s reaction to current moves.
It is critical to remember that during the Rhodesian UDI era, the USA kept racist Rhodesia alive through the trade in chrome, thus emasculating the UN trade embargo that would have crippled the rogue state and made possible the same trade in chrome on a cleaner moral level.
The point in case is that the CFU proposal should not be a cause for celebration or policy change for the ZANU (PF) government.
Rather, black Zimbabweans   must view the proposal as an unforgiveable insult to African intellect.
When the proposal is reduced to very simple terms, it is frightening and ridiculous.
What comes out very clearly is that white farmers have never accepted the moral, legal, economic or political basis of the land reform programme carried out according to the laws of Zimbabwe.
As a result, they are still holding onto title deeds of land that was recovered and re-distributed to the rightful black owners.
And there is a stubborn refusal to understand the fact that stolen property does not become legal because of a title deed processed by the thief.
So that after the defeat of the MDC and with it the chance of ever recovering the lost land, the first step in their proposal is that the Zimbabwe government must acknowledge the debt owed to the former farmers as compensation to their farms.
They propose that ‘for every title deed held by former farmers, bonds will be issued to a value corresponding to the value of the farm.
The bonds will be internationally underwritten and managed by an internationally-recognised accountancy firm.
These bonds will be tradeable, interest-bearing and will be renewed over 10 years in annual installments.
Because they are underwritten, these bonds have value and they can be used as collateral to get loans.’
But, the most racist part of the proposal is that the bonds ‘will be offered for sale to the current beneficiaries on the land.
These beneficiaries will receive credit lines on cheap terms from the land bank as the land will have collateral value and the land market will have been recreated.’
Coming after what happened to Gadaffi, the Libyan people and their oil, the most tragic thing a ZANU(PF) government could do is to listen to any deals with the settler dominated Commercial Farmers Union.
First, black people must be reminded that the CFU metamorphosed from the Pioneer Column that formed the vanguard of the genocidal occupation of Zimbabwe by Britain in 1890.
And, the logical conclusion from this historical fact is that every economic evil Zimbabweans have been subjected to by the British occupation forces has been meant to directly benefit successive mutations of the Pioneer Column right up to the current Commercial Farmers Union.
Successive generations of the settler community deriving from Pioneer Column have translated into a callous local agency of British imperialism in Africa.
Black Zimbabweans must also be reminded that it is the CFU that vigorously campaigned for illegal sanctions that were designed to impoverish indigenous Zimbabweans into submission to racist evil.
The CFU did not want a simple regime change. They made very clear their intention of sending some members of the ZANU(PF) government for trial for alleged human rights abuses at the ICC.
The Libyan precedent portends what would have happened if the CFU sponsored MDC had won the July 31 elections.
Mike Campbell, whom simple minded racist Benjamin Freeth has obscenely attempted to sanctify into a more-sinned-against-than-sinning saint was brazenly speaking for the CFU when he declared: ‘If we win this case, then the whole land reform programme in Zimbabwe becomes illegal.’
And it is a position for which the US Congress enacted ZIDERA, crafted by the same farmers to restore racially exclusive colonial land tenure in Zimbabwe.
Black Zimbabweans who are now the new and legitimate owners of the recovered land must on their part fully recognise kuti the white farmers no longer have land to speak of.
After the havoc the CFU wrought among them, black people must see no need to give investor confidence to those who intend to invest not in the black man’s economic emancipation but rather the creation of a conduit for future sabotage of the black man’s successes.
Black people must understand that the white farmers got themselves into the mess while attempting to destroy us and consequently it is not in our interest to help them back to their feet and nurse them back to fighting form.
They thought they could make it in Australia, UK, USA, Canada and New Zealand but are suddenly realising kuti out there no one is willing to slave for them.
White skin is not a privilege when everyone else around you is white.  And in the meantime, black Zimbabweans have formed new relationships and discovered that the white farmers are dispensable.
In conclusion, perhaps the best moral way forward for the ZANU(PF) government is to do unto the CFU exactly what the union had planned for black people and that is leave them with nothing so that Zimbabwe proceeds without ever worrying about what landless Rhodesians can do to an economy in which they are non-stakeholders.
To be Continued