“...President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decided to stop seizing land from white farmers, offering them 99-year leases on their property instead.”
What is he really saying here? Is it:
1. That black people can’t farm? I think they can. Skill, learning and lots effort needed to scale it - but humans have been farming for a very, very long time.
2. That persons who previously owned land, worked hard to maintain it, had it taken from them, violently in some cases, are now being ‘rewarded’ with the opportunity to come back?
3. That this deal is limited in time, effectively - we want you back, but not forever. Which also suggests the 99 year lease ends the day the farmers are no longer needed.
President Mnangagwa, I’d say your policy will reap what is sows. And when you inevitably face angry rioters that cannot feed their families - don’t blame the farmers who had property (their means of SURVIVAL) taken, or their wisdom to not come back. It was YOUR foolishness, YOUR continuation of bigotry.
Always sickening to see how people can be oppressed by Governments - Venezuela, North Korea, Romania, Soviet Russia, Cuba, and on and on and on....
One aspect of African society is businesses are often run by foreigners either whites or from other African countries. The reason is if you own a farm or business in your native country all your relatives will expect a cut.