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Offline TomSea

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This is interesting for those talking about how it is in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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NOT REAL NEWS: False comments attributed to Zimbabwe leader

HARARE, Zimbabwe –

The president of Zimbabwe did not say people in his country have been reduced to eating animals like rats and baboons because of "mistakes of the past" with white farmers, as at least two online sites claim.

Mnangagwa has been breaking away from the seizure of thousands of white-owned farms carried out by his predecessor and mentor Robert Mugabe, who resigned last year under military pressure. The chaotic land seizures under Mugabe contributed to the country's economic deterioration. Earlier this year, a new government policy was implemented, allowing Zimbabwe's remaining white farmers to get 99-year land leases.

The sites, breeknuusza.com and newsupdatessa.site, report in identically worded stories that Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa also said restoring his nation will "require white people to come back."

Read more at: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/18/not-real-news-false-comments-attributed-to-zimbabwe-leader.html