I wonder if Germany asked for a return receipt on that letter. Some of Mugabe's men, who call themselves veterans of the war back in the 1970s, last year killed citizen white farmers, who stayed after the war and were hurting no one. Those farms and others reverted to the state. So far, a reported 31 people are dead in the farm takeovers and related political assassinations. Not all citizens are behind Mugabe, but he has the muscle right now.
Tobacco is Zimbabwe's biggest agricultural export, and tourism was a growing industry.
Coffee and tea and cattle are also big agricultural endeavors, some of them done by little farmers who happen to be descendants of the British who colonized the country more than 100 years ago. The government justifies its murder and stealing by saying the whites first stole it from them in the late 1800s. At any rate, the parallels and the themes are worth noting and thinking about. In the United States the movement to undo farming, particularly outside the Midwest, is profound. The environmental excuse in the latest round in the Northwest is related to the energy crisis.