What happened in Zimbabwe?
http://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/4/23/white-and-black-farmers-still-bear-the-scars-of-zimbabwes-land-grabs
The invasions were part of the chaotic Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP), launched under President Robert Mugabe in 2000 to reclaim land from about 4,000 white farmers and redistribute it to landless Black Zimbabweans.
But instead of redressing past injustices, Zimbabweans say it fuelled economic and land insecurity as mainly governing party loyalists benefitted from the reclamations.
More than two decades on, a struggling agricultural sector haunts Zimbabwe, leaving the question of land ownership unresolved, even as the government has begun to pay compensation to white farmers.
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(Most of the article was skipped. Portions of it were 'spinning' - trying to blame white 'Colonialists' . . . )
But, I remember an article about how Zimbabwe was once part of 'Africa's Breadbasket' . . . And then 'black majority rule' was imposed leading to the confiscation of white farmers lands and the end of Zimbabwe being a food exporter. And it appears South Africa is traveling down the same path.
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