TWO DECADES after President Robert Mugabe began to steal most of the 5,000-odd farms owned by whites in Zimbabwe, an agreement to give them a morsel of compensation has been struck—on paper. Whether it will add up to a sheaf of tobacco leaves or go up in a puff of smoke is too soon to say.
In the ensuing years, violent invasions of land and confiscations were relentless. Thousands of white farmers were evicted, often beaten up, sometimes killed. But instead of their farms being handed to the landless poor, most were given to bigwigs and party cronies, while 350,000 black farm workers and more than a million of their dependants were thrown into penury. Farm output slumped, hyperinflation took off, the entire economy collapsed and it has never recovered.
The omens are not good, even though the deal clearly specifies that compensation will be paid in US dollars. Earlier this year the Supreme Court opined that a contractor who was owed a debt in US dollars by a big Zimbabwe coalmining company should be repaid only in the increasingly worthless Zimbabwean currency.
Stolen land must be returned to their owners :Zimbabwe' people. If white want, they must pay for them.
You conveniently forgot the Lancaster agreement with Thatchers government was dismissed by your beloved Tony Blair that’s why the land was taken away as Blair told Robert Mugabe that, that was the previous government and he didn’t represent that . Foh
Mugabe took back what was Zimbabweans. Colonizers came and stole land from the natives. That's what they do all over the globe. Kill and take from the indigenous.
JoelPinheiro85 Pelo menos não deixou com os brancos
I bet you not one of those lands are in production right know, not 1, Fidel l, Chavez, Maduro, all of them did the same thing and not 1, increased the production, the complete opposite, all of them crashed the production, communist pigs
The use of the word stole is in bad taste. The land belonged to us and whites stole it. Over history a lot of injustices was done to black people without compensation - slavery to colonialism. We take back land it's an injustice - NO WAYS
The Economist, no one expected this level of Bias, mean language and insensitivity from you, ..... God, this world, what 😳 next
You cant steal what's yours.🙏
Ok, I just have one question.Did the white farmers ship a whole country from England 110 years ago?
Nonsense..
He took it back*
Stole? Where did they get it from, did they bring it from Europe? What a scandalous headline!
😂😂😂😂 I have laughed today the white does not own land here they stole it from us long back I don't want to go deeper but the land was not stolen although they are lots of qns on how it was distributed though
How do Robert Mugabe steal land which is his? Imbecilic reporting
Now this is offside🙄🙄🙄
He never stole. Correct your english
Why should the land narrative begin with the land reform of the 2000s..where did the white farmers get the land from..how did it come to their possession..other things we can agree on but not the words 'stole from white farmers'..The land had been stolen by whites
The land was already ours, white folks are the ones that stole it from Zimbabweans! ✊🏿🇿🇼 ZimbabweanLivesMatter
Are you for real? Who stole from who? You have no shame.
This is real mischief ....'Robert Mugabe stealing land from white farmers'? How did the white farmers get it in the first place? How many natives did they kill? How much wealth did they loot from the natives? What atrocities did they commit? This bastard is so disrespectful.
utter nonsense...
You're mad and misinformed ,RGM didn't steal from the colonialists what was rightfully ours ..viva RGM what he did was above board and widely endorsed by the citizens ...stop denigrating RGM and the people of Zim ...Zim for blacks
1/ This sort of rhetoric is outdated now who ever funds this still relevant is very much stuck and we cant rescue you. It just confirms the white supremacist skewered ideology that nothing existed before them or had no owner before them.
Stolen land?
You GUYS FORGOT ZIMBABWEANS ARE ANTI ZANUPF BUT WE ARE ALSO PRO LAND REFORM just because it was done in a bad way dosen't mean we are against EXPROPRIATION OF LAND WITHOUT COMPENSATION it's our lad our birthright
The last part is correct the land was distributed to Mugabe's cronies but on the stealing part u can't be more wrong
A publication gone to the dogs, a shitty headline how can an african steal land from a white farmer inafrica
He took back land and gave it to Zimbabweans and the colonists fooled the opposition not to participate, excepting the subortage the land reform
I vehemently disagree with you.White farmers never owned any land in Zimbabwe.The land belongs to Zimbabwe and is the modus operandi which Mugabe employed to redistribute it which was wrong and needs to be corrected.Get it right.
Nonsense did these whites bring land from Britain?
White farmers stole land from the locals! Now you turn it out around. Lies lies!
This is distasteful. Remove this stupid post.
we are very offended by the notion that Mugabe 'stole'. The land belongs to native Africans and it is the natives who must be given reparations! ZimbabweanLivesMatter
A mad chap is writing for the Economist. Shame! Land was stolen from black people. That's where the story commences. ZimbabweanslivesMatter
You cant steel something that has been owned over a forgy agreement(rudd concession),but u take it back
Please don’t let gay publishers run headlines- they come out shitty and they don’t even notice
This is bullshit Where did these whites get that land from?
Robert Mugabe did not 'steal' any was black people's land to begin with.
Racist talk 'steal'
The word is improper
Zimbabweans might have disagreed on how Mugabe took the land but noone disagreed that land had to be returned back to the rightfull owners.
Unfortunately this all is a result of the consequences of taking land from the owners that the descendants are now paying for! One thing the colonists didn't think about was that times were never going to stay the same forever. I think the one who has to be blamed are yr ancestor
White people certainly feel entitled to other people's stuff, don't they? 'Stole land from white farmers'...someone need to knock whoever wrote this garbage in the kichwa.
Britain reneged on the Lancaster House Independence Agreement especially on the land question. Independence War was basically premised on land return to the indigenous blacks. Unreliable.
Okay, my first problem is with you saying he “stole” from white farmers. See any irony there? Secondly, not that he was right, but people in power the world over usually take care of their cronies above all else. Shameful but nothing new.
Taking back stolen lands by whites is remediation. It should occur in South Africa too.
AfricaUnited19 WellenceMujuru LynneStactia Julius_S_Malema here is a company thats nolonger relevant in the modern world, you cant even be bothered to write the truth!!! 'Stole land' check your facts!!!!
What Zimbabwean government did shows that no an white person will own land on Zimbabwe Zimbabwe just compensated the developments done on land as per constitution
Were the cronies black who before had no land n the country of their ancestors? Cmon, this is no story . Forgetting historical facts.
The colonialists are the ones who stole the land from the indegenous people. Not what you are stating.
bloody shameless imperialists, where did the so called white farmers get that land, did they bring it with them from England?
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Never trust a Marxist... they are totally void of integrity, decency or honesty
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How did those farmers acquire the land in first place... Long live the struggle...
When the white folk stole it who did they distribute the land too?
That's why I don't follow your silly page,and I hope the Zimbabwen government changes it's mind about compensating those white land theives.they must first compensate Zimbabwe for colonialism and years of wealth looting.
Can you steal something from a thief? A more accurate headline would be Mugabe reclaimed land from white farmers and distributed it to his cronies rather than the original owners.
And many farmers was killed or have to move out of the country. Sucess poor - the country has hunger !
Truth hurts.
This headline is pure pro-colonialism, revisionist history nonesense. Retract and do better !
I understand the sentiment that it wasn’t stolen from whites BUT if you read the entire piece (not just the free part), it says that. My question to all of you is what do you make of how in the 20 years since this started, the industry has completely dried up.? Serious question.
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Nice to see The Economist still has the balls to write the truth like that
Nonsense headline.
Stop distorting history with your deliberate and dishonest lies as it were.
Stole? Try again.
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