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preferred one since his topic was very successful together with his museum of 30 tons of
trophies he brought back from Africa. Sable are one of the most elegant, regal, and beautiful
antelopes, the bulls standing as if posed for an antelope show, heads raised never drooping,
like prized dogs at a dog show, prancing like thoroughbreds before being fed into shoots for a
race, and casting back a dignified look of imperialism when disturbed. Harris witnessed the
battles between the Dutch settlers heading north towards and battling Mzilikazi and made the
prophet prediction, somewhat like de Tocqueville, that “they have cast off the yoke of
government which they felt burdensome, and whilst they flourish, are the judges and the
avengers of their own cause. But to an unprejudiced observer, their path would seem strewed
with difficulties, and beset with perils. Thus far their course has been marked with blood, and
blood must it be traced to its termination, either in their own destruction, or in that of thousands
of the native population of southern Africa.” Frederick Selous was allowed to hunt in the area
after being asked by Mzilikazi's other son Lombengula if he knew what it was like to hunt an
elephant. Selous said he had never seen an elephant and because he appeared to be such a
small young boy and an ineffective hunter, Lombengula allowed him to hunt. Lombengula
continued to rule after his father until Rhodes and his lieutenant, Dr. Jamison, organized a raid
based largely on false pretexts and ended up taking over the area that was going to become
called Southern Rhodesia from Lombengula and the surrounding tribes. Once Lombengula was
eliminated (he died from small pox in the Zambezi Valley trying to escape), the land was taken
forcibly from the local inhabitants and then divided up. Thus, in the case of Zimbabwe, it has
been argued that although the land had been taken forcibly, the takeovers and killings were
justified. However, this argument holds little water since in between 1976 and 1978, at least
33 missionaries were murdered, after being raped or tortured, by Mugabe and Nkomo terrorist
groups, the most inhuman was the massacre at Elim mission in June 1978 when even small
children were raped in front of the local community and then killed. When the takeover of
farms occurred at a greater rate in 2000 and the farmers were increasingly being threatened,
they were forced to flee for their lives and so many of the farms lay dormant and were not
being used. Thus, the squatters settled on them, in many areas with no resistance since the
farmers had already fled, but could not run the farms and let the farms lay fallow. This is a
highly different matter than when farmers were trying to farm the land and the farms were
forcibly taken over and quickly destroyed. In the initial wave of Zimbabwe attacks between
2000 and 2001 seven, including David Stevens, were murdered and these were particularly
high profile because the police took part in the attacks. A farmer was hand cuffed by the police
and taken to the police station where he was handed over to the “malitia” and promptly shot
with his back to the wall with his own rifle. Martin Olds defended his farm in April 2000
fending off 90 “malitia” led by so called war veteran Commander Jesus and killed some 20 of
them before the police came and supplied phosphorus to smoke him out. Police roadblocks
prevented his neighbors from getting to him to help him. Since then, there were another 16
murders and most farmers left because it was clear they were not going to be protected against
the mobs. In October last year 2010, Kobus Joubert, former head of the Zimbabwe Tobacco
Growers association was murdered in shanty he was living on his small farm since he had
been forced out of his main house. In the case of Kenya, many of the farms were overtaken and
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