Zimbabwe’s real heart emerges as cruel memories subside
August is the time of new beginnings in Zimbabwe, when temperatures are rising, leaves are falling and the Msasa pods are cracking and spitting out seeds.
August is the time of new beginnings in Zimbabwe, when temperatures are rising, leaves are falling and the Msasa pods are cracking and spitting out seeds.
During Zimbabwe’s land invasions, abduction, murder, torture, theft, arson and countless other crimes went unpunished, hiding under the guise of land reform.
‘The company could help meet the $3.5bn the government agreed to pay thousands of white farmers it began evicting from their land in 2000’.
Zimbabwe’s government has signed a $3.5 billion compensation deal for white commercial farmers who were evicted from their land two decades ago.
Two decades after President Robert Mugabe wrecked Zimbabwe’s economy by urging black subsistence farmers to violently force white commercial farmers and their workers off their land, his successor has thrown in the towel.
Jacob Zuma, the former South African president facing 16 corruption charges and a demand to pay back as much as R32m in legal fees, may see his woes deepen from beyond the country’s borders.
Across the political spectrum, the warnings become ever more urgent. The spectre of food riots is a probability more than a possibility, writes Ed Herbst.
Zimbabwe’s new black farmers will soon have to pay rent for the once white-owned farmhouses they were given under President Robert Mugabe’s land reform programme.