We had no need for land – resettled Zimbabwe peasants confess
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By CHAKWANDA MANGEPA
Published: Thursday 18 February 2010
HARARE – Beneficiaries of the chaotic land reform programme have confessed that their participation in the land grab exercise was a result of greed to merely snatch the farm houses from the white community and not to till the land, the assertion that has thrown damper to the perceived enrichment exercise of the murderous ZANU PF party.
According to a ZBC Newsnet reporter who had been pursuing reportage of the chaotic exercise since its inception, most resettled farmers who are now standing helpless staring at bushes of grasses have revealed their souls saying that they were driven by spite to prejudice the able white community from their farms, the development that drew Zimbabwe into poverty.
“Most farmers are confessing that what they needed were farm houses and not vast swathes of land, which implied slavery for them.
That is the very reason why there is no productivity on the farms,” said the reporter.
When the land reform programme was introduced in the 1980s, the intention was address the perceived anomalies in the distribution of land wherein most blacks were allegedly occupying unproductive land while the whites had rich soils.