Mugabe, land reform, and his cronies

My charge that many of the white farms "distributed" under Mugabe's land reform comes from this article on the BBC: LINK
Thousands of liberation war veterans and supporters of the ruling Zanu-PF party have invaded hundreds of white-owned farms since February, demanding land they say was stolen during the British colonial era. ..

Ah, but it wasn't stolen from these same people...

To put things into perspective, you have to see the great population increase in Zim after 1900...essentially, the early farmers went into an empty land...

However, there is much bitterness about land seized and given to white farmers, and where blacks had been resettled...

The "black" and PC side of the story is here:

LINK

Much of the anger in the article is probably justified, but as you can see, the Marxist/leftist rhetoric assumes no nuances....

And, of course, my point is that you don't kill the goose that laid the golden egg, i.e. white farms, and that if we want Zim to be wealthy, you need industrialization and globalization...after all, with the population explosion, there simply is not enough land to feed the growing population via substience farming...

Slowly granting those who actually work the farms their own land, and subsizide fertilizer, handplows etc. would be a good start...as would high yield crops...

But then, what do I know?