LETTER: Settlers’ original sin must be atoned for
Mozambicans are better off on the land the people now own
10 February 2020 - 15:55
RWT Lloyd seems to assume that the transformation of peasants into uprooted, landless vagabonds living in wretched conditions in Mozambique was a benevolent act (“Beware, ANC may be on Mozambican road to ruin”, February 6). It was good for the economy, he thinks. Whose economy, we may ask?
No, it wasn’t. Land dispossession was part of the original sin of Portuguese capitalism in Mozambique. The liberation struggle returned the land to the people. As a result, thousands of Mozambicans today live on and from the land and the resources it provides...
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