Zimbabwe’s non-farmers
Robert Mugabe’s accelerated land-reform programme will be a disaster if its driving motive is to reward party loyalists
IT WAS a rollicking party. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, arrived in one of his helicopters. Cows were slaughtered, beer gushed, crowds danced and ululated, and television cameras recorded the joyful event for posterity. The occasion was the resettlement of 51 black families on Wakefield “A”, a large commercial farm, bought by the government from willing sellers two years ago.
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