An African (a slave) taught Jack Daniels how to make whisky. We should all lift our Jack Daniels whisky glasses and toast to the African genius.

The lost story of the slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey:

One big problem with chasing out white farmers is that people will starve and the economy will suffer.One farm feeds an average of 2500 people.So every 400 farmers kicked out is 1 million people without food.They dont have any program for skill transfer so that guys "taking over" the farms will produce a similar output.Turning from a net exporter to importer of food overnight will hit their currency hard considering its already suffering.Trying to correct historical injustice is all good but people have to eat and also need a currency whose worth the paper its printed on.

Do you know that 99% of the labour in those farms are africans who have farmed for ages and thus very well versed in agriculture. The problem with Zimbabwe is that farming was a white mans exclusive club where they controlled access to loans, machinery and markets. So when blacks were given 20 acres each and couldn't access money to even plough or get seeds, there was bound to be a reduction in production. Same as happened to kenya post independence when the big farms were subdivided and resettled by blacks, though in kenya the effect was minimal because a large number of Europeans still maintained their farms and also some of the farms were taken over intact by the black elites and continued with production.

So just know that after some time zimbabwe will recover. It's better when a black Zimbabwean owns his 20 acres and produces maize and tobacco to feed his family than when he is a farmhand/squatter producing the same maize and tobacco to enrich his white master while being paid slave wages and condemning his kids to perpetual "slavery".

As you can see from the graph below tobacco, the major export has nearly recovered to pre-land seizure days and most of the profits are going to the new black farmers. Also note that zimbabwe went down because the west deliberately sabotaged the economy to punish mugabe for kicking out their white brothers.

Of what use are "production and currency" matters to a black guy who is hungry, jobless and landless? Such maneno only matter to his white master whose grain or tobacco stores are full and the markets are strong.

You'd rather briefly suffer when you are on your own 20 acres than continue with the status-quo ie being landless and living in the townships/slums/farm-workers quarters with no hope for the future.

Watu hawajui AGRICULTURE IS A CULTURE... you don't come from a family of miners to do agriculture.

The zulus and others were farming crops even before the mines were discovered. Agriculture also includes keeping animals and African communities always kept huge herds even before the white man came into the scene. There is no difference between a mzungu herder (he prefers to be called a "rancher") with 1000 animals and a zulu herder with his 1000 animals.

@hardwood..perhaps before telling us how great a farmers the black south Africans were and are, you might need to dig into the history of the four main communities (Zulu, Xhosa, Ngoni and the Khoi San (bushmen)) in South Africa just before 1450 AD. This might help you to correct your argument.

It is not about doing a better job with the land. No!!! That cannot and should never be the point. Watu wapewe haki yao.

The situation in Namibia is even worse. There is a community of 30,000 Germans in Namibia who own 44% of the country. When Namibia got independence they were basically conned the way we were conned only worse because one of the clauses was that land is private, even water is private in Namibia. The black people own nothing at all there.