Hanging on while an industry collapses
De Castella, T.
Hanging on while an industry collapses - 2003 - Farmers' Weekly 139(3) 18 July 2003, 88-89(2) .
Looks at the situation for Zimbabwe's mainly white commercial farmers in the face of President Mugabe's uncompromising compulsory land acquisition. Finds that the farms invaded by the Zimbabwean army veterans are not producing enough to support the new settlers and that those white farmers left are still being intimidated and threatened with eviction. Nor have the reforms held to the policy's stated aims of fairness, redressing colonial injustice and black empowerment, as the 'one man, one farm' ideal has been ignored with many of Mugabe's supporters having done well out of phase two of the land reform. Concludes that the outlook for the country's agricultural sector is bleak as production levels plummet.
ZIMBABWE
LAND REFORM
Hanging on while an industry collapses - 2003 - Farmers' Weekly 139(3) 18 July 2003, 88-89(2) .
Looks at the situation for Zimbabwe's mainly white commercial farmers in the face of President Mugabe's uncompromising compulsory land acquisition. Finds that the farms invaded by the Zimbabwean army veterans are not producing enough to support the new settlers and that those white farmers left are still being intimidated and threatened with eviction. Nor have the reforms held to the policy's stated aims of fairness, redressing colonial injustice and black empowerment, as the 'one man, one farm' ideal has been ignored with many of Mugabe's supporters having done well out of phase two of the land reform. Concludes that the outlook for the country's agricultural sector is bleak as production levels plummet.
ZIMBABWE
LAND REFORM