"Let's keep our land, our sovereignty" Mugabe
On the15th of April 2013 I was discussing about the issue of Land Reform programme as well as Indigenisation and Empowerment policy. I touched on the issue of how ZANU-PF under the ministry of Indigenisation and Empowerment policy has looted the available natural resources of Zimbabwe. The issue at hand was the one where Kasukuwere, the minister of Indigenisation and Empowerment policy threatened the Tongaat Hullet Company that it will forfeit its license if it fails to comply with the indigenisation policy of Zimbabwe. I then promised to give you the full explanatory information about why indigenous people of Zimbabwe are not fully benefiting from this on-going process.
The programme is failing to benefit the people it supposed to benefit because of political and economic factors. Politically, the policy has been hijacked by political parties for example ZANU-PF as a way of gunning support from ordinary people. By so doing, the process tends to be discriminatory in nature. For example, those who do not belong to ZANU-PF are hardly benefiting from this programme.
Economically, the programme has been hampered by factors such as sanctions which were imposed by the EU following the disputed land reform programme in early 1990s.
All in all, corruption has taken center stage in the implementation of these programmes. Some people have taken large portions of land yet others do not have any. For example, a CNN reporter during the programme called ‘hard talk’ accused Mugabe of grabbing 16 000 hectares of land.
The big question is, how long will Zimbabwe continue in such jeopardy?
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