South2North - Zimbabwe: Lessons from land reform
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
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In the 1980s Zimbabwe became the poster-child for African independence. Twenty years later, violent land grabs pushed white farmers off their land, and the economic turmoil caused unprecedented hyperinflation, resulting in the ultimate crash of the Zimbabwean currency. Food production collapsed and one of the continent's strongest economies reduced to half its previous size. While the West was quick to dismiss Zimbabwe as another failed African state, new research shows that Zimbabwe is actually recovering, and that land reform is working. After years of economic collapse caused by violent land grabs, Zimbabwe is recovering, but who is reaping the benefits?
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Due to this program, it only benefitted the politicians of Zimbabwe as they shared the land for themselves, though between all of them, there was noone with farming knowledge
The Zimbabwean dollar is no longer in active use after it was officially suspended by the government due to hyperinflation.
All I can put here is personal experience., we were forced off our farm last year, my sister and I were the 4th generation on the farm., we had set up schools and employed over a hundred locals, my family is not racist and we bought the land., my neighbors were beaten to death my grandparents threaten with violence we ended up moving off out of fear and I went back this year, the house is torn down, all the trees cut down and no crops being planted all the old employees are unemployed., so well done, you won, you forced us off on the account that we are lighter than you despite us speaking your language and being friends with the locals., you ruined hundreds of lives in the taking of one small farm and screwed up a country in this practice, and it's a change in power, is this going to happen every time the president changes race ?
+Dirk Visagie Sorry this happened to you, seems that what happened is accepted as necessary, they didn't even give you compensation...shocking!! seems we're the victims of our ancestors success...the Chinese will buy the farms now and control Zimbabwe!!
***** how do you define an African ? My entire family grew up in Zimbabwe and after my dad finished his degree and worked for a few years he bought that farm, from the Zimbabwe government, how does anyone deserve that land ?? We never took anything, we were painting the house a few weeks after we moved in when a man came to our gate claiming my grandfather raped his grandmother ? Yes i understand not all the whites are were in the right but there is a legal road to indiginisation and what happened in Zimbabwe was not
Dirk Visagie British government should refund you put in an application
we love you man sorry for what happened
Dirk Visagie who did you buy the land from? what black man, that was there before you. what black government, that was there before you, sold you the land. who did you buy the land from? you can't answer that question and make it work. the land was stolen, it was stolen from the indigenous people, in this case, they are the majority. In every other land that Europeans have stolen, land, they now outnumber overtime the native inhabitants, but you're out of luck in Zimbabwe, Rhodesia is gone! you don't need to remember anyting about Rhodesia, who cares, get over and go back to Europe. stop complaining about a black nations, that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, in common with. And you forget all the black people who died under your grandparents and your neighbors, how about a moment of silence for them...
It's refreshing to find literature like this about the Zimbabwean Land Reform. In-Depth, accurate and not biased.
Even the Scottish Nationalist Party supports Mugabe's Land reform because they know eventually it will be a success just like how colonization ended and like wise other southern african countries will do the same. My only fear is south africa when it happens it will turn into a civil war soon because people on the ground already are fed up of shameful wages but the good in south africa is that everyone owns a gun so...
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Calling the land reform “successful” is abit of stretch when you say that only just recently have agricultural outputs have returned. I don’t think blowing up your economy and severely hampering agricultural outputs for a decade+ can be called a success. You can argue that now it’s in a healthier state but it took a lot of hardship to get.
Exactly
Agriculture debacle for 1.5decade is too much time
Oh this hasn’t aged well, people now starving on mass
R.I.P Prof Sam Moyo. Died in a car accident in India last weekend.
Sad indeed for us to lose our think tank...RIP
What did the white woman who says Mugabe's land grab worked do while she was in Zimbabwe? Did she sit in her hotel and ask the official guide for the story? Or did she take the money and tell the lies Mugabe wanted told? The people in Zimbabwe didn't starve in a thriving, well-farmed country.
uber own no assets of it's own yet it makes over $40 billion. land is not really empowerment. a liberated mind is empowerment.
How has a liberated mind improved your material circumstances? Give us useful details.
Land reform program is a noble idea as long as it is not politicised. It's a shame to note that some African countries are afraid of undertaking agrarian reform programs. Land reform is another revolution in most African countries. Zimbabwe is done already and no need to go back
We must make the land reform work
Zimbabwe struggled economically because of sanctions by U.K.
@Saskia All the black farmers had the same fate as the white farmers. All the workers too. In reality it was never about skin-color. Before the "land reform" Zimbabwe did well even with sanctions, Rhodesia did well even with hard sanctions. Every dictatorship is sanctioned.
@@23GreyFox The African dictatorships have large following and last I heard, that's "demos" ="people " so it's a democracy. A dictator is a heroic leader who does things for the benefit of his people and against colonisers. When that term, dictator, is banded around, know that the economics are centred towards the majority especially African dictators.
@@africanadage852 Grow up, the last African colony collapsed 50 years ago. Africa is ruled, just like before, by Africans. Democratic leaders don't mass execute their opposition.
Europe had 2 world wars with over 60 million dead, and they still came back after less than 20 years. What is your excuse for Africas problems? "Evil white man"?
It makes sense to replace outdated and wasteful methods of agriculture with small scale operations using modern technology such as Aquaponics (Hydroponics and Aquaculture synthesis). It's been proven that Aquaponics does not pollute and destroy the environment such as when land is cleared to make way for monoculture crops which need chemical fertilizers and a lot of irrigation. Aquaculture and Hydroponics are closed recycled systems and for a drought ridden area such as Southern Africa this makes sense, considering the realities of climate change.. What people don't understand though is that it takes a lot of expertise (practical and theoretical experience) in farming methods as well as a lot of hard work to make money off the land - the grass is never greener on the other side.
the true story of why the land was taken from the whites listen to this interview and ur perspective on this issue will change.mugabe is one of the greatest african president i wish the same would be done in south africa
/watch?v=djd23O3v2sA
Africans need and must controll all their resourses for them to get the respect that is due,Black and White AFRICANS NEED to share and work together, the success or failer affects all of you ,by the way there is enough land and resourses for all you to share.
what the fuss, even Europe did not develop in one decade. development is a process not trial error method. after land reform we now need to change of mindsets of the masses. give us time please.
+Leo Mushonga The farming land and economy had already been put in place and was going strong before Mugabe took over and crippled the economy and all the hard work that had been put in place!!
+Realistic208 The people got tired of white people's expansionist the world is mines ways.
Talk to the people of Zim that comes here. Zimbabwe is starving
All africans Countries will follow Zimbabwe Policies in Lands , Mining Companies, and Finacials Institutions in Zimbabwe. viva Africa, VIVA zIMBABWE, VIVA MUGABE.
the most frank conversation i have heard here... not this biased nonsense we often here
Well then why is there food shortage in Zim?
The devil is in the detail.... most farmers in the better agric region dont grow food crops extensively.... they do cash crops like tobacco and cotton...
Also.... land still isn't equitably distributed thus exposing millions to drought...
So yes, Zim can actually reach its former glory bt it isn't
"People rising up" to reallocate occupied land, returning it to indigenous citizens.
People who have settled a particular region of the planet for a long time have, in a sense, enjoyed an huge advantage over some other groups who have had to occupy very marginal lands. We embrace as a value the idea of group sovereignty, but this is a value that divides humans and causes wars and atrocities. The U.S. is an experiment in multi-culturalism that would be much enhanced if the rent of land were equally distributed rather than held by the very wealthy as is now the case.
Great 30 years later the production is almost the same as in the 1990's real great, the rest of the world's production 600% of what it was in the 1990's. Never mind the los of 2 million lives of hunger and 6 million Zimbabweans in South Africa. It is a utopia, you are ALLMOST WERE YOU WERE 30 YEARS AGO HAHA please. If it is such a great place please do take your people back and give them farms and food, o I remember you can not because there is the minimum food to the people there now. A farm is a business, if you give it to someone without economic and farming knowledge it will put the country 30 years back. Stupid people
JEALOUSY IS A VERY BAD FEELING THAT CAN CAUSES CANCER.GET OVER IT. ITS CALLED LIBERATION
Please explain what I am jealous about ? And please do explain your definition of liberation?
Looking at the headlines 4 years later, Zimbabwe is broke and a food importer. The woman who wrote the book was bought and paid for, the female farmer wouldn't dare complain because she has to return home in a country run by a brutal gangster.
Kindly google zim latest farming now
@@nqobilekhumalo2158 still not as high as 1999 peak even tho the population grew a lot 😂
most of the food in zimbabwe is imported from botswana and south africa.their agriculture is dead and is still bad.who ever says things are improving there is exagerating things
Zimbabwean's just keep going, God and history is on your side. It won't be easy as the propaganda from your former colonial masters is forever increasing and is designed to derail the successful gains made.
+Clive Hewitt keep dreaming silly boy!
I have said all that I wish to say on that matter for now. What exactly am I dreaming about? Would love to debate with you however it is time for supper. Got to get that meal.
Then why is Zimbabwe still in the dysfunctional state it’s in?
John Campbell give it 3 years n see what happens
They aren't doing pretty well are they?
Hail to Zimbabwe.
This was an outcropping of the GNU. Now we have massive food shortage.
maybe but you have to be in the right party and tribe, so the black issue does not hold water in this argument
Why if it is going so well are the Zimbabwian people fleeing to SA
This really thrilled me! Some positive unsung stories about the land reform! There is always a good side to every sad story!
Please repeat that today
Returning land to the tillers is a noble idea, but there are few examples of success around the world. Japan following the WWII and Taiwan under the Kuomantang are limited success stories. Real land reform requires that the rent of land become pubic revenue. One of the great ironies of history is that segregated South Africa actually embraced this idea for its cities. Post-apartheid landed interests have been restored to rentier status. Zimbabwe under Mugabe: little more than genocide.
Reaping the fruits of this recovery? Zanu-PF and the Mugabes can answer this for you.
I hope you are correct, that attitudes are changing, that the exploitation of peoples who only want to work the land and live in peace will end.
Who are these people?
Those who don’t care for facts.
What goes around comes back around.if you stole expect something to be stolen from you.if you kill expect to be killed simple principals of life.
Forget the past and move on Moses Revenge is bitter
Absolute BS!!! This woman is a complete liar!!!
Redi Tlhabi is so pretty !
I am sorry you interpret my comments as a defense of European (or any) colonialism. History is filled with one case after another of violent conflict over the control of land and resources. The idea that all persons have an equal birthright in the earth has been violated again and again. Dominate, subjugate, annihilate rather than share is our history. The moral argument is: as we did not produce the land with our labor the rent of land is justly the property of society and not individuals.
Cool!
UnConsciousnable liars...
they were getting the money all this time now thy are not happy
PLEASE: stop linking the Zimbabwean economic crash to the land reform policy. There exist no overlapping between the two. The crash was caused by an unprecedented credit freeze by the U.N. On top of that numerous sanctions were imposed, each one finding its root in economic weakening. If the same activities of were imposed on USA or U.K trust me they would look worse then Zimbabwe because their resources are far inferior to those of any African country.
president gabriel robert mugabe wont love this
i am not an albino like u muzungu
Palestine lol and now this
University of Zimbabwi 😂😂😂😂 Nhai Charlene 😂😂😂😂😂 LooL
It is working? Really? The country has cratered. Total and complete denial.
land refrom is working and thriving
:) :)
lol u make no sense btw blacks arent suffering we are doing fine here in zimabwe
zimbabwe is a failed state.they should bring back ian smith.am a botswana citizen
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