Zimbabwe’s Attorney General and a known Mugabe loyalist, Johannes Tomana, has acquired Malangani Ranch in Masvingo Province. Fortune Charumbira, the president of the Council of Chiefs, acquired Dyres Ranch in Mwenezi. Chivi North Zanu-PF Member of Parliament Tranos Huruva has taken over Kaywood Ranch while Chivi Central legislator Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana, also a member of Mugabe’s party, now owns Wanezi Block Ranch. The Zanu PF farm feeding frenzy continues unabated.
MDC's current position of the land issue is a compromise "one-man one-farm". So Johannes Tomana will be allowed to keep his new farm - assuming he had no other farm. And so will all the other Mugabe cronies. What nonsense!
Tomana and all the other Mugabe cronies how own all these farms are the same people who have benefited all these years from the ransacking and looting that has crippled Zimbabwe. They destroyed the country’s once thriving economy and productive agricultural sector to the point where 95% of the people are out of work and 80% of our people now rely of food aid. It is the height of lunacy that these same criminal should be allowed to keep that loot.
All looted farms must be returned to the state. The state must use the farm to resettle the landless peasants, who thanks to the corrupt Mugabe regimes are even poorer today than they were in 1980 and therefore their need for resettlement is even more urgent now than it was back then. The rest of the farms must be sold in the open market where every Zimbabwean will have an equal chance to buy.
Tsvangirai’s enfeebled stance on the land issue has spurred Mugabe and his cronies to continue with the land seizures; to them it has been business as usual!
For Zimbabwe to move and have a just and prosperous future the land issue will have to be revisited and dealt with in a robust way. And it will; believe you me, it will! Mugabe and his cronies may think they will get away with their criminal abuse of power and looting. They are wrong!
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