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By "locals" i meant "Zimbabweans". Or are you saying his cronies where not even from the country?
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They were, but the point is that he told everyone he'd give it to the black population, giving the idea that the normal, poor people would gain control of the land, whereas actually a lot of it went to rich black friends of Mugabe.
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... I am surprised at your insolence in writing to me at all. You know, as I know, that I bought this constituency... may God's curse light upon you and may it make your women as open and as free to the excise officers as your wives and daughters have always been to me while I have represented your scoundrel corporation.
I have the honour to be... your obliged humble servant, Anthony Henley
- MPs reply to constituent, mid 1700s
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