slim
12-12-2005, 09:45 AM
No matter how many times the socialistas try agrarian reform .....it will always end up with the same result .....geeeeesh ...!!
How many times do we have to suffer through this experiment ...it always ends up with less productive land ......and ........people starving. Is the land reform going on in Venezuela the next and latest experiment....??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051210/wl_afp/zimbabwelandpolitics_051210224131
Mugabe Admits Land Reforms Fraught With Problems
Sat Dec 10, 5:41 PM ET
ESIGODINI, Zimbabwe (AFP) - Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe admitted that his government's land redistribution has been fraught with problems.
"The conference deliberated on and debated our agrarian reforms. It is clear this is an area with some problems," Mugabe told his party activists at the close of the ruling ZANU-PF annual conference.
He cited the problems as multiple ownership of farmland by some of his party's top officials, under-utilisation of land and white farmers still not keen to give way to landless blacks.
"We still have (white colonial) Rhodesian farmers resisting land reforms, often supported by some of us in the party and government," Mugabe said.
Zimbabwe's land redistribution, launched in 2000, have seen some 4,000 white farmers lose their properties as part of a policy that Mugabe maintains will correct imbalances created under British colonial rule.
In August parliament passed reforms that legally ban white farmers from challenging land grabs.
Fewer than 500 white farmers still own land in Zimbabwe.
Critics have alleged that the changes, which have driven out thousands of large scale commercial farmers, have partly contributed to food shortages.
Mugabe blamed government officials for inadequate agricultural inputs, lack of technical support for farmers and low rainfall for the poor agricultural output and food insecurity in the country.
"There are serious shortcomings in government planning and steps will have to be taken to correct them," Mugabe said.
He also promised that due to widespread irregularities in land allocation, his office was now in charge of all distribution.
"No land can be apportioned without our office saying 'yes'. We did this because we saw, we had experienced a lot of irregularities, a lot of corruption a lot of favouritism.
"We want a fair distribution. We all know that fairness did not happen in every case, people were taking farms and so on and giving each other. It's not good and it does not give us a good name. So let us be orderly," he said.
Mugabe pledged to improve security on the farms, weeks after a white farmer was reportedly burnt to death in his bedroom by suspected arsonists, at a farm near the capital.
Slim
How many times do we have to suffer through this experiment ...it always ends up with less productive land ......and ........people starving. Is the land reform going on in Venezuela the next and latest experiment....??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051210/wl_afp/zimbabwelandpolitics_051210224131
Mugabe Admits Land Reforms Fraught With Problems
Sat Dec 10, 5:41 PM ET
ESIGODINI, Zimbabwe (AFP) - Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe admitted that his government's land redistribution has been fraught with problems.
"The conference deliberated on and debated our agrarian reforms. It is clear this is an area with some problems," Mugabe told his party activists at the close of the ruling ZANU-PF annual conference.
He cited the problems as multiple ownership of farmland by some of his party's top officials, under-utilisation of land and white farmers still not keen to give way to landless blacks.
"We still have (white colonial) Rhodesian farmers resisting land reforms, often supported by some of us in the party and government," Mugabe said.
Zimbabwe's land redistribution, launched in 2000, have seen some 4,000 white farmers lose their properties as part of a policy that Mugabe maintains will correct imbalances created under British colonial rule.
In August parliament passed reforms that legally ban white farmers from challenging land grabs.
Fewer than 500 white farmers still own land in Zimbabwe.
Critics have alleged that the changes, which have driven out thousands of large scale commercial farmers, have partly contributed to food shortages.
Mugabe blamed government officials for inadequate agricultural inputs, lack of technical support for farmers and low rainfall for the poor agricultural output and food insecurity in the country.
"There are serious shortcomings in government planning and steps will have to be taken to correct them," Mugabe said.
He also promised that due to widespread irregularities in land allocation, his office was now in charge of all distribution.
"No land can be apportioned without our office saying 'yes'. We did this because we saw, we had experienced a lot of irregularities, a lot of corruption a lot of favouritism.
"We want a fair distribution. We all know that fairness did not happen in every case, people were taking farms and so on and giving each other. It's not good and it does not give us a good name. So let us be orderly," he said.
Mugabe pledged to improve security on the farms, weeks after a white farmer was reportedly burnt to death in his bedroom by suspected arsonists, at a farm near the capital.
Slim