I made new friends on my vacation in Zambia... a couple from Zimbabwe. They had their farm seized by the government a few years ago, and now lived in Zambia. He has his own plane and sometimes flies over the old farm, and he reports that it's just sitting there collecting dust... they seized it and then left it idle. The building are starting to fall apart, and it's just a mess.
Exactly. Most of the land now sits idle. Owned by government officials and cronies. Some tiny parcels went to “veterans” and others but not to people who could make productive use of it.