#Zimbabwe

[probablyasocialecologist]

The hysteria surrounding South Africa’s land reform policies is, in part, fueled by the specter of “Zimbabwefication.” The global right has long used Zimbabwe’s land seizures of the early 2000s as a cautionary tale of what happens when black-majority governments challenge white property ownership. The narrative goes that Zimbabwe’s economic collapse was a direct result of land expropriation rather than a combination of mismanagement, corruption, and structural economic constraints. This crude analogy ignores fundamental differences: unlike Zimbabwe’s forced land seizures, South Africa’s Expropriation Act remains bound by constitutional provisions ensuring fairness and public interest. More importantly, the comparison assumes that black-led governments cannot administer land reform responsibly, reinforcing a racist paternalism that undergirds much of the right’s critique. The same ideological project is at work in the outcry over South Africa’s affirmative action policies. While it is true that employment and shareholding equity laws have been inconsistently applied and, at times, weaponized for cronyism, the broader claim that white South Africans are being systematically excluded from the economy is baseless. White South Africans continue to occupy the most lucrative positions in business, control the majority of private wealth, and benefit from generational economic advantages that decades of slow-moving transformation have failed to undo. Affirmative action, far from dismantling this entrenched inequality, has mainly served to cultivate a small black elite while leaving the structural dynamics of racialized wealth accumulation intact. But this is not what inflames Musk and his allies. Their real concern is not fairness or economic justice—it is the preservation of white economic dominance.

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The imagined exodus of white South Africans fleeing “oppression” to build a new life abroad is an old fantasy, one that has circulated since the end of apartheid, but remains largely unrealized. The simple reason is that, despite the challenges, South Africa still offers a higher quality of life for many white citizens than the precarious existence they would face as economic migrants in the US or Europe. Their sense of victimhood, then, is not rooted in material dispossession but in a psychological discomfort with a country in which their hegemony is no longer unchallenged.

19 February 2025

[friendswithclay]

“Janet Mudimba learned traditional Tonga pottery from her mother. She especially enjoys making huge water-cooling pots, which can also be used for brewing beer.

Finding clay is a problem. She has to travel 20 km for her supplies. Janet feels it is very important to encourage other women to learn traditional skills like pottery, basketry and making children's toys. She has started a club for this purpose which now has 75 members. Women sell their work at the Binga Craft Centre, or exchange it for fowls and goats in their community.

"As an artist I have a duty to pass on my knowledge," she says. *If women of my age don't teach youngsters, who will?"

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The world is oftentimes such an ugly place, but sometimes it can be so beautiful.

Like, when two choirs, one from Croatia and the other from Zimbabwe, met on the opposite sides of a Lisbon subway station and both sang to each other.

I unfortunately do not know what the Zimbabwe children choir sang to them (although it was so beautiful), but the Croatian klapa Kastav sang 'Kuća puna naroda' (a house full of people).

And let my reward be a house full of people, my life, give me a voice, so I can embrace you with songs.

Video source: Irena Grdinić

[vangoghcore]

by Wolkmar Ventzel

[illustratus]

The Eastern Cataracts of the Victoria Falls by Thomas Baines

[geologyin-blog]

Amethyst Scepter w/ Hematite Needle Inclusions From Chibuku Mine, Zimbabwe.

Photo by  lostgemz/IG

[pangeen]

" The Magnificent Mana " // © Marlon du Toit

[afrotumble]

[stavrosskundromichalis]

Vulcanodon karibaensis wanting the weekend to last forever in Zimbabwe during the Early Jurassic

[folkfashion]

Tonga man, Zimbabwe, by Boguslaw Maslak Photography

[dream-world-universe]

Victoria Falls, Zambia & Zimbabwe: Victoria Falls (Thundering Smoke or Boiling Water) is a waterfall on the Zambezi River, located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is one of the world's largest waterfalls, with a width of 1,708 m . The region around it is inhabited by several species of plants and animals. Archaeology and oral history describe a long record of African knowledge of the site. Although known to some European geographers before the 19th century, Scottish missionary David Livingstone identified the falls in 1855, naming them Victoria Falls after Queen Victoria. Wikipedia

[expressions-of-nature]

by Gerd Baumann

[dandrew-stuff]

This woman NEVER stop. She’s always advocating somewhere,sharing,experiencing,guiding the next generation.

SHE IS WONDERFUL!!!

Danai in Zimbabwe for the Almasi Collaborative Arts 🎭 ❤️

[inatungulates]

Southern warthog Phacochoerus africanus sundevallii

Observed by oecophylla, public domain

[rosechata]

zimbabwe by nicolas quiniou

[omgthatdress]

Zimbabwe!