What it has triggered inside the Zanu PF machine is a "total onslaught" in the old South African apartheid parlance. They have recognised that it has been urban workers and commercial farm workers who have been the backbone of the MDC. They have seen that small independent business has been able to support the MDC financially and all these sectors of our population have become a target. The commercial farmers have been smashed into the ground - now the State is taking their staff and their families and dumping them in the Zambezi Valley without food or any means of support.
……….Do not listen to the fine words spoken by African leaders - watch their actions and be warned. The majority do not give a damn about their own people or their welfare. All they want is control and power and the ability to use the resources of the state (and donors if possible) to feather their own nests and the nests of their close associates.***
Mugabe's new farmers in Mashonaland West are largely businessmen or politicians who bark orders down the phone to managers from their suburban homes in the city. In the Mazowe Valley last week, west of Harare, is first lady Grace Mugabe's farm, which she wrenched from a frightened old couple. She is growing a few hectares of maize, government tractors were ploughing for her last weekend at a dirt cheap price, and Mugabe's sister, Sabina, is trying her hand at seed maize on one of several farms she has taken. But none of them will in the foreseeable future produce enough food, or enough foreign currency to import what was grown before.***