On June 14, 2000, Patrick Bond said:
Patrick, I keep forgetting to ask you. RW Johnson, in his article in this week's London Review of books, says:
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The farm invasions in Zimbabwe are essentially a political ploy, an attempt by Zanu-PF to terrorise and intimidate rural people in the run-up to the election. They are not really about land re-distribution at all. If the Mugabe Government were serious about giving land to the poor peasants it would not have given it to the rich and pwoerful -- of the 3.5 million hectares the Government has bought from white farmers, over two million have gone to Mugabe cronies. Some has gone to the poor, but a million more hectares lie vacant and Mugabe could make a start by distributing some of those.
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A million undistributed hectares? Is that really true? Or is it all desert?
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com