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...disaster on the brink of widespread famine and economic ruin. As a result of this catastrophic reversal of fortunes, the situation in Zimbabwe has been the focus of a great deal of attention. Although land reform must go forward in Zimbabwe to fix the unequal legacy left by colonization, Mugabe??s dictatorial regime has been causing more problems than it has solved...
...required in Zimbabwe, where white farmers own 65 percent of commercial farmland, or 18.5 percent of the total area of the country. This is an entirely indefensible proportion given the miniscule percentage of whites living in Zimbabwe, but far less than the inflated figures often put forward by Mugabe??s proponents. However, the need for reform has been undisputed since independence. In fact, land reform was an important part of the 1979 negotiations that paved the way for the country’s independence. One must therefore ask why this reform has taken so long. Often, white governments...
...can’t say I approve of Mugabe??s despotic rule, even after Barron’s favorable portrayal. But I am convinced that if Western governments think Mugabe is solely to blame for Zimbabwe’s plunge into the abyss, it is only because they have not looked in the mirror. Like other nations in Africa, Zimbabwe desperately needs a real and dramatic redistribution of land to undo the legacy of colonization. The problem is that neither Mugabe nor his critics have figured...
...southern Africa to make real progress in redistributing land. His reform program takes land from white farmers, by force if necessary, and is supposed to give it to impoverished black Zimbabweans. Unfortunately this doesn’t always happen because the program is marred by corruption and cronyism. But Mugabe??s aggressiveness is nonetheless a welcome change for Africans who are tired of white farmers and white governments stalling on land reform...
...setting the example by showing that if white farmers don’t cooperate, he’s willing to take the land back.” This is not the ranting of a conspiracy theorist; the West really does have a double standard when it comes to dictators. Mugabe??s real indiscretion in the eyes of the West is less a about his abuse of political power, and more about whom he is attacking. The European Union and the U.S. claim to be appalled by his human rights record, but there are a dozen other comparable leaders...