between the chains
SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Zimbabwe’s radical spurt to ruin
In the country that once bore his name, the importance of livestock has again been elevated to levels last seen before the arrival of Cecil John Rhodes. They are now a currency in their own right. Radical economic transformation has indeed come full circle in Zimbabwe. It is an important pointer. It gives us a sneak preview as we embark on our own journey to radical economic transformation. And of course, being the great students of revolutionary history, we’re now talking of expropriating land from whoever currently owns it without compensating them for it. The proponents of such a policy argue, correctly, that that is how Africans lost the land in the first place. True. But times have changed drastically since then, when only military strength determined a people’s fate. The armed robberies that yielded land for the foreign occupiers cannot justify today’s armed robberies. There were no rules of engagement then.Societies have since moved on, to civilisation and decency. It is too ...
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