Operation Summer of Chaos

[Ninurta]

"We're oppressed and we should rise-up and kill the enemy I will point at. We will live
in a nation within a nation and assume that the economy of that land will continue.
Yer know... like an happy ending in a movie.
But who's gonna plough the fields and sow the seeds? Where's the damned farmers
when you need them...?"

Ask a Rhodesian... erm, I mean a "Zimbabwean". The natives got restless, threw a war to which everyone was invited, and via mostly international pressure on the Rhodesian government, succeeded in taking over the country - or retaking it, depending on your viewpoint. Robert Mugabe, a former guerrilla leader, was install as leader of the country, and I believe still is to this very day. They tried to get an economy rolling. I have one of the first 50c pieces minted after the takeover, minted in 1980. Withing just a few years, that 50c face value had dwindled to something like 1/ 50 billionth of the face value, due to runaway inflation and governmental mismanagement.

They, too wanted their land, and to that end kicked off the mostly white farmers who were farming it, and took it over.

But they didn't farm it themselves. No one did, after they kicked the farmers off and sent them packing out of the country. The land just sat there, fallow, under new ownership with no one willing to work it. That wrought havoc on the economy, and it spiraled downward, out of control, from there.

I wonder how South Africa is doing these days?