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  I am not saying that howard. I merely point out the situation as it has developed. Sadly most of post-colonial Africa has brought nothing but poverty and misery to many previously wealthy and well run countries.
  
  This is not about loss of investment, Bern, more about how the country has been misruled. The way the white farmers have been forced off their farms, that have been in their families for generations and produced a surplus of food that fed much of Africa. The new 'owners' did not have the knowledge and skills necessary and the land has gone to rack and ruin. So Zimabwe falls into famine.
  
  It is tragic. Is all that starvation, death and misery worthwhile just for some 'principal' or political objective?
  
  In Rhodesia a new African middle class was starting to emerge and given time these would have grown in numbers, confidence and skills, they would have played a full part in Rhodesian democracy. The handover of power came too soon, before they were ready so the country decends into chaos.

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