One small step for Mugabe, a giant leap for land reform.
New African › Nbr. 2011, January 2011
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Zimbabwe - Robert Mugabe - Book review
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One small step for Mugabe, a giant leap for land reform.
A new study led by British and South African professors and partly funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) has found that contrary to popular belief, Zimbabwe's land reform programme has not been an "unmitigated disaster", nor did the land predominantly go to "political cronies". The much-maligned programme initiated by President Robert Mugabe has finally been vindicated. Osei Boateng reports.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NOTHING CAN BE MORE FULFILLING than to see your enemies (sorry, political opponents) eat humble pie! That pleasant feeling swept over Harare in late November when a 10-year study led by British and South African professors and partly paid for by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) reported that Zimbabwe's "controversial" land reform programme has not been an "unmitigated disaster" and even more importantly the land did not predominantly go to President Robert Mugabe's "cronies" as Western governments, academics, and the media have told the world. "Whatever you thought about the land issue in Zimbabwe, be prepared to change your mind," Prof Bill Kinsey of the Free University in Amsterdam, Netherlands, said in the wake of the new report. "Events in Zimbabwe since 2000," Prof Kinsey continued, "have been so coloured by superficial media reporting and obscured by strident political posturing that little attention has been directed to what has become of the thousands of families that received land following the occ...See the full content of this document
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