Zimbabwe Gives Land Back to White Farmers After Wrecking Economy

DelaneyIn

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.

Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has proposed settling all outstanding claims against it by farmers by offering them land.

“The object of the regulations is to provide for the disposal of land to persons entitled to compensation,” Land Minister Perence Shiri said in regulations published in the Government Gazette Friday.

The seizures that began in 2000 were ratified by the government, which said they were needed to redress colonial imbalances. A vibrant agricultural industry that exported tobacco and roses and grew most of the food the nation needed collapsed. Periodic food shortages ensued, inflation became the world’s highest and the manufacturing industry was decimated. What was one of Africa’s richest countries became one of its poorest.

Almost 4,500 white-owned properties and others protected under government-to-government agreements were affected by the program.

The southern African nation this year budgeted about Z$380 million ($21 million) for compensation. Several farms that were protected under so-called Bilateral Investment Protection Agreements belonged to nations including the U.K., South Africa, Australia, the Netherlands and Denmark.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/zimbabwe-gives-land-back-white-150503602.html

Hopefully it’s not 20 years too late for this. Wishing Zim all the best and glad this theft has been rectified.

Junkyard Tom

Fake news.

Land reform is a Zimbabwe success story – it will be the basis for economic recovery under Mnangagwa

Zimbabwe produced more maize in 2017 than was ever grown by white farmers, who have repeatedly been praised for making the country into the bread basket of Africa. Maize production in 2017 was 2.2m tonnes, the highest in two decades.

theconversation.com/land-reform-is-a-zimbabwe-success-story-

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Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Fake news.

Land reform is a Zimbabwe success story – it will be the basis for economic recovery under Mnangagwa

Zimbabwe produced more maize in 2017 than was ever grown by white farmers, who have repeatedly been praised for making the country into the bread basket of Africa. Maize production in 2017 was 2.2m tonnes, the highest in two decades.

theconversation.com/land-reform-is-a-zimbabwe-success-story-

Does the article say the source for the information is the Zimbabwean government? Same article notes the high level of corruption in that government. Hmm.

road_high

Same anarchy has been going on in South Africa. Basically a bunch of criminal cronies robbing farms and land with zero clue how to run them and collapsing the economy in the process, Lessing to food shortages and price rises.

road_high

road_high wrote: »

Same anarchy has been going on in South Africa. Basically a bunch of criminal cronies robbing farms and land with zero clue how to run them and collapsing the economy in the process, Lessing to food shortages and price rises.

It's crazy how many young white South Africans are fleeing. Used to be none of them in Vietnam and now you can't go anywhere without hearing them.

Some of the stories they have of what went on before they left are horrific. No one cares.

Your Face

Taking land from the white population definitely added to the economic collapse but it isn't the sole reason it happened.

RobertKK

The problem was not the colour of the skin of who was farming. The problem was giving farms to people with no experience of running a commercial farm and they not knowing what to do. It was always going to be a disaster.

road_high

Deleted User wrote: »

It's crazy how many young white South Africans are fleeing. Used to be none of them in Vietnam and now you can't go anywhere without hearing them.

Some of the stories they have of what went on before they left are horrific. No one cares.

Lots of them moving here. Complete break down in civil society

DelaneyIn

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Fake news.

Land reform is a Zimbabwe success story – it will be the basis for economic recovery under Mnangagwa

Zimbabwe produced more maize in 2017 than was ever grown by white farmers, who have repeatedly been praised for making the country into the bread basket of Africa. Maize production in 2017 was 2.2m tonnes, the highest in two decades.

theconversation.com/land-reform-is-a-zimbabwe-success-story-

Then why are we sending them millions in aid each year?

biko

DelaneyIn wrote: »

Then why are we sending them millions in aid each year?

Because, Africa

Muahahaha

RobertKK wrote: »

The problem was not the colour of the skin of who was farming. The problem was giving farms to people with no experience of running a commercial farm and they not knowing what to do. It was always going to be a disaster.

Thats the long and short of it, it was always going to end badly. Years back I lived with a white Zimbabwean flatmate in New Zealand who had been displaced by the upheaval there. Felt sorry for him at first but it wasnt long before his outright racism for the local population came out, I was sick of listening to his rants while I was trying to watch the rugby so I moved out soon after. My room got taken by a Serbian who had also been displaced due to the war and by all accounts he absolutely hated Muslims. The pair of them were well suited.

vriesmays

Anyone know when Dunnes Stores is going on strike to support the evicted white farmers.

Jurgen Klopp

RobertKK wrote: »

The problem was not the colour of the skin of who was farming. The problem was giving farms to people with no experience of running a commercial farm and they not knowing what to do. It was always going to be a disaster.

However it didn't help that the colour of the farmers skin was exactly why it was taken off them.

Fcuk them, let the scum deal with it now. The people of Zambia benefitted from the racist polices of the Zimbabwe.

The Tetrarch

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Fake news.

Land reform is a Zimbabwe success story – it will be the basis for economic recovery under Mnangagwa

Zimbabwe produced more maize in 2017 than was ever grown by white farmers, who have repeatedly been praised for making the country into the bread basket of Africa. Maize production in 2017 was 2.2m tonnes, the highest in two decades.

theconversation.com/land-reform-is-a-zimbabwe-success-story-

The government provided seed, fertiliser, and, if needed, tractors and fuel for ploughing, and the cost was deducted from the sale price of the maize.
The government paid for the production.
If you look at the graph in the report you must doubt the claim that there are record crops..