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Zimbabwe in a bad way: why does an African tyrant get a pass?
Bob Ballantyne was a Caucasian tobacco farmer in Zimbabwe. Now there's a politically incorrect trifecta. A white male in postcolonial Africa growing a crop responsible for causing cancer is not the easiest character to generate sympathy for on the world stage.
Yet Ballantyne's story deserves to be heard. For he, like thousands of other farmers in Zimbabwe, has lost his home, his livelihood, his land, and his connection to loyal African employees, friends, and neighbors, all thanks to the thuggish "farm invasions" orchestrated by president Robert Mugabe in the increasingly tortured country of Zimbabwe. Ballantyne (not his real name--all the farmers quoted here ...
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