Propagandist Kajau claims Mugabe's land reform was a great success we all know it was a disaster!

Comrade Suitable Kajau has been at it again, trying to tell us black is white and white is black when we can see and name all the colours of the rainbow for ourselves. This time this Mugabe-can-do-no-wrong praise-singer is trying to telling us that Zimbabwe’s political motivated, chaotic, violent and disastrous seizure of white owned farms was “a successful land reform programme”.

“It is against this back-drop (the white owning more land than the blacks) that His Excellence, President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, alongside other nationalists committed their effort and dedication to break the selfish and callous system led by the tyrannical white minorities. Cde Mugabe remained resolute and focused on the need to see blacks enjoying the fruits of their national heritage. 

“To satisfy this Zimbabwean dream, Cde Mugabe and his government led an expeditious and successful Land Reform Programme which was meant to empower the historically disenfranchised blacks, and correct the colonial imbalances which existed unbridled for close to a century when whites ruled Zimbabwe illegally between 1890 and 1979. 

“The Land Reform Programme came to transform lives, and to resuscitate hope for blacks who had stayed for decades in abject poverty under a racially discriminatory system,” wrote Mugabe’s propagandist.

People like Kajau’s refusal to face the facts and deal with the truth is one of the contributory factors to Zimbabwe’s backwardness by deliberately misinforming the public and thus creating very fertile ground for tyrants to do mischief.

Ever since the white-owned farm seizures in 2000 Zimbabwe has struggled to produce enough to feed its own people, this for a country that, until then, was the bread basket of the region. The collapse of the agricultural sector has contributed to the collapse of the national economy and has yet to recovery. These are the facts and reality that no amount of denial or spin can change. 

Mugabe did not institute the white farm invasions until 2000, 20 years after independence, because he appreciated the role the country’s successful agricultural sector played in generating the wealth. But instead of the wealth being put to productive use he doled it out to his greedy and wasteful cronies.

 By 1990 the Zimbabwe economy was in serious trouble and government was forced to adopt the first of two five-year Economic Structural Adjustment Programmes (ESAP). The programmes failed to deliver the economic recovery because government did not implement the agreed reforms. By the end of the second five-year ESAP in 1999 the country’s economy was on its knees and up to its eyes in debt. Mugabe needed a new source of wealth to dole out to his cronies, the white-owned was the only asset of value.

Mugabe was also desperate to hold on to political power, a real big challenge in the face of the country’s economic decline. The violent seizure of the white-owned farms provided the smoke-screen to use violence against his political opponents on the populous and rig elections. Zimbabweans have lost their basic and fundamental rights and freedoms including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and the right to life itself under the pretext that Zanu PF was doing all this first and foremost to stop the opposition getting into power and reverse the party’s land reform.

So Zimbabweans were being denied their rights and dignities so that a tyrannical regime can impose a nonsensical and damaging land policy.

There is a crying need to resettle people in many overcrowded rural areas, Mugabe has done very little to address this problem.

Commercial farming was always going to be a key component of the country’s agricultural sector; all Mugabe has done is replaced white farmers with his cronies who had no farming skills but, worst of all, most of whom are lazy and have never done a single day’s honest work in their lives.

Mugabe prophesies to be a great admirer of the Chinese “all weather friends” he called them and yet he has completely failed grasp the secret behind China’s Deng Xiaoping Theory; greatest transformative changes in human history, that delivered a 8% minimum GDP growth rate for 25 years running. China pulled millions of Chinese a year out of a life of abject poverty into prosperity.

Xiaoping theory has two key aspects; first one is to implement the principle of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts. The second aspect is the willingness to adopt and accept new ideas as long as the deliver the end objective, economic development.

“It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice” as Deng Xiaoping famously put it.

Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector will have the peasant farmers and commercial farmers, the latter will be selected on their ability to put land to good use and not the colour of their skin, period!