Mugabe's Man Slams Farms Grab November 03, 2005
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A member of Zimbabwe's bankrupt government has admitted that the country has run out of food because land seized from whites was given to amateurs with no "pbuttion for farming."
A member of Zimbabwe's bankrupt government has admitted that the country has run out of food because land seized from whites was given to amateurs with no "pbuttion for farming."
As the country faces its worst agricultural season in its post-colonial history, a newcomer to the Cabinet spelled out the scale of the catastrophe more plainly than any of his colleagues.
Sylvester Nguni, the deputy minister of agriculture and a former businessmen, blamed falling food production on President Robert Mugabe's "new" farmers.
"We have a few people that are really committed to production while many others are doing nothing on the farms," he told the state-controlled Herald. "The problem is we gave land to people lacking the pbuttion for farming, and this is why every year production has been declining."
About 4,000 white farmers were violently evicted from their land after a new party, the Movement for Democratic Change, came within a whisker of defeating Mugabe in the 2000 election. He accused the whites of supporting and funding the MDC.
Mugabe has now blamed drought for mbuttive reductions in agriculture over six years. But the last serious drought was in 1992.
Zimbabwe now imports up to 80 per cent of its cereals. Its export crops have all but disappeared, leading to a chronic shortage of foreign currency.
Bright Matonga, the deputy information minister, last week evicted one of the few surviving white farmers, Tom Beattie, from his citrus farm near Harare.
Doug Taylor-Freeme, the president of the Commercial Farmers' Union, said: "It is refreshing to note that someone in government has finally seen the reality. Farming is a business and it requires expertise and experience. It also takes dedication and pbuttion."
Ed. Something neither Blacks nor Marxists have any of - south africa is headed in exactly the same direction and for the same reasons...
Agricultural experts say Mugabe seized nine million hectares and gave it to cronies who use less than 10 percent of it.
-- Jim Union Against Multiculty
"Abolish Multiculty and String Up The Traitors!"
