Zimbabwe Regime admits failure on land reform
11 November 2002
Regime admits it Failed Land Reform
The stories in the Chronicle (7 November 2002) and this week’s Sunday Mail prove what the MDC has always said-that the regime does not have the capacity to carry out a sustainable land reform programme, and that the whole land chaos was never planned by the regime, but was coined as an election gimmick to buy the electorate into voting for Zanu PF.
The shortage of maize seed and the inability of government to provide fertilizer and other farming inputs cannot be viewed in isolation of the crumbling economy, which is a reflection of the failure of Mugabe. Because he was desperate for power, he was touting an agrarian reform without addressing the issue of state-induced poverty due to over-spending on the part of the regime for their own luxury whilst the people were suffering.
The MDC criticized the regime’s land grab scheme from the beginning and now it is evident that it is a failure. Although Mugabe blamed the current food shortages on the drought, it is now clear that it was the disruption of farming through the land experiment that is responsible for the current food crisis, and now it will be exacerbated by the fact that there is no seed for the so-called ‘new farmer’.
Mugabe’s regime is bankrupt and cannot supply all the necessary inputs for an agrarian reform. It is ironic that last week Made was scoffing at the Commercial Farmers Union saying they are unable to lead the land reform programme; yet he belongs to a regime in power but cannot drive the reform programme at all.
There is need for a change in government for the situation to change in Zimbabwe, and until Mugabe goes there will be more suffering for the people of Zimbabwe and they will never realize a better life.
Renson Gasela
Shadow Minister for Agriculture
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