Yet another disastrous programme
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November 21st, 2011
I never thought that after the lessons from the ad-hoc land reform programme
Zimbabwe would pursue another disastrous programme, this time dubbed black
empowerment.
With the ruin wrought by President Robert Mugabe’s ill advised land reform
programme that destroyed the once vibrant agriculture sector, turning
overnight the country from breadbasket to basket case, it is indeed hard to
contemplate yet another similar programme engineered by the same looters who
are now multiple farmer owners.
It’s like a drama in slow motion with an obvious tragic end; a destroyed
economy, no jobs, no food and no money.
I am not sure what will happen to the country’s potential mining sector now
that Mugabe and his cronies are busy looting it in preparation for the
biggest election in their long political careers. But I am as sure, as the
sun rises every morning, that eventually the company grab, just like the
land grab, will kill the country’s sick industrial base.
It will not benefit my fellow Zimbabweans who have since 1980 been
sidelined, even after the completion of the so-called land reform programme
thousands of Zimbabweans are still squashed on spent land and Mugabe and
his cronies still cannot fathom a land audit.
No science is required to see that the same people who benefited from the
land reform programme will also benefit from the land grab. Even the
vociferous war veterans are not likely to benefit and neithrer will the
chefs, because they are not close enough to the echelons of power.
As I write this I see disaster coming to mother Zimbabwe for the same doctor
responsible for the deaths of many is forcing himself upon us again to
perform another surgery.
Zimbabweans will shrug it off as it happens, but when the effects start to
take their toil then they will remember that indeed Zanu PF policies are
self serving initiatives for political survival.
This entry was posted by Simon Moyo on Monday, November 21st, 2011 at 11:49
am