S. Africa Land Reform Completes Redistribution of Farmland to Indiginous Peoples

Solidarity with the indiginous peoples of South Africa! Government Land Reform laws have empowered our brothers and sisters, and rescued them from economic injustice!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-401582,00.html

Farmers of Zimbabwe's new era reaping ruin

THE deadline for the conclusion of Zimbabwe’s land programme passed ominously yesterday: seized farms which should be busy with summer replanting were silent.

In years past the fields would have been noisy with tractors and scores of workers cultivating in ploughed ridges.

Instead, there is the occasional solitary figure, hunting among the burnt weeds for mice to eat.

It looks as if nearly every square inch of the undulating fertile farmland is blackened, right up to the ridges of the Great Dyke, the spine of mountains on the horizon. Burning is the closest approximation here to preparation for the summer cropping season that started yesterday.

About 50 squatter families were “resettled” on one farm here 18 months ago. I saw only two small plots ploughed for maize crops that would feed their respective families.

“All of this should have been prepared a long time ago,” said Richard Galloway, 41, as we passed an area of six rugby fields. He was forced off his farm nearby two weeks ago.

On the main road near Tsatsi, two women with grass brooms were sweeping up maize pips that had fallen from passing lorries.

Saturday marked the deadline set by President Mugabe for the completion of his “revolutionary land reform programme”. By then, all the settlers were to have been on the former white-owned land allocated to them. They should have had seed and fertiliser to cultivate and feed the nation.
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