Zimbabwe: The Struggle Against Tyranny Part 1

I sat down with Zimbabwean citizen, human rights activist, and head of the Center for Market and Liberal Solution, Rejoice Ngwenya, to discuss the hardships living under the tyrannical rule of Robert Mugabe and reserve bank chair, Gideon Gono.

We discussed hyperinflation, international intervention, economic liberalization, and the prospects for a transfer of power.

Music excerpt from Bob Marley - "Keep on Moving"

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News & Politics

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• Zimbabwe
• Robert
• Mugabe
• hyperinflation
• economy
• human
• rights
• liberty
• freedom
• change
• Texan
• Rejoice
• Ngwenya
• africa
• elections

[machipisazim]

1978 two years before independence Zimbabwe's black farmers produced 518,000 tons of maize/corn. 1981 only one year after white rule those same farmers produced 1,054,000 tons of maize, in 1985 they went better still and produced 1,780,000 tons of maize WHY? The price paid, in 1978 by the white government paid black farmers $53 per ton of maize. 1981 the Mugabe government paid $120 per ton and in 85, $180 per ton. This sharply revised policy is Zimbabwe's Farming Miracle not white magic

[ThoughtsfromaTexan]

You also must recognize how Mugabe has now stripped land not just from "unjust" white farmers but is implementing the same policy now on MDC opposition farmers both white and black.

Who receives the land then? Cronies of the Mugabe government who just let the farming potential of the land die and thus removed all the numerous decent paying jobs for Zimbabwean citizens from the economy.

[machipisazim]

in 1998 economic problems caused by their (white farmers) choices in what to farm (tobacco, flowers and cotton) on the best soil the price of food rose and resulted to food riots in the cities that depended on the white farmers for food. Today who is funding MDC and what are they going to get for their investment. MDC is saying the lack of (F.D.I) Foreign Direct Investment is causing the hardship, but which party is seen on TV calling for more sanctions.