SEIZURE OF WHITE OWNED BUSINESSES SET TO CAUSE UNTOLD SUFFERING TO MILLIONS

When Mugabe started seizing white owned farms the whole world was told that it was to resettle the landless peasants. Well the reality on the ground has turned out to be shockingly different. Very few landless peasants were actually resettled as most of the farms were taken over by Mugabe and his cronies.

The ordinary Zimbabweans, the very people who were supposed to benefit from the farm seizures, were caught in a four pronged pincer squeeze. The farm seizures resulted in a dramatic collapse of the country’s agricultural sector and, since this was the main and remaining pillar on which the Zimbabwean economic stood, with it the national economy. So the ordinary Zimbabweans found themselves out of work and yet facing the soaring food prices because Zimbabwe became a next importer of food. As for the hundreds of thousands of farm workers they found themselves out of work – the new ruling elite who took over the farms failed to keep the farms productive and so fired the workers. And for the farm workers they were under attack on the fourth front, in siding with their white farmer employers they became the easer targets of Zanu PF thugs then the white farmers.

This new law forcing all none black business owners cede 51% of their business to blacks in clearly meant to achieve the same thing Zanu PF accomplish in its violent seizures of white owned farms. With this latest move there is no pretence that it will benefit the ordinary Zimbabweans. They have neither the funds to buy any of the 51% shares nor the political connections to be on the minister’s pre-selected list. But once again, it is the ordinary people who will pay dearly for this law.

Zanu PF’s seizure of white owned farms showed the country had no respect for individual property rights and the rule of law. This certainly worried the would-be investor and when Zanu PF passed this new law in parliament it confirmed something that people saw coming. For any business owner already in the country they held back on further investments. For a country with a staggering 90% unemployment rate this was sheer midnight madness!
This law is clearly meant to benefit Mugabe and his cronies at the great expense of the masses of Zimbabwe. If there is justice in this world then all those who benefit from this must be severely punished for severely punishing the rightful owners of these businesses and in the process severely punishing millions of ordinary Zimbabweans