<Some Zimbabwe citizens are more equal than others. The penalty for being the wrong sort is death. As is usual in Marxist nations, to make the Great Plan work, you have to start breaking a few million eggs.

...Mugabe is now taking his revenge in maize. His catastrophic decision to cleanse the country's farms of their white owners has forced the country--once southern Africa's breadbasket--to import food from the world's charities. And Mugabe is making sure little of it enters the south.



The government has only permitted half a million tons of maize into Zimbabwe, all of it distributed through the state-operated Grain Marketing Board, one of whose managers told The Times of London, "We only sell to Shona-speakers." Reports of desperate hunger have been trickling out of Matabeleland for months. And Didymus Mutasa, ZANU-PF's administrative secretary and senior bureaucrat, recently admitted that whittling down Zimbabwe's population from its current twelve million is his government's explicit plan.

"We would be better off," he said, "with only six million people ... who support the liberation struggle. ... We don't want all these extra people."



Of course, this pales beside the inability of Americans to get affordable prescriptions.