Robert Mugabe's Harlem Speech On Land Reform Pt 2

Part 2 - President Robert Mugabe's speech on how Ronald Reagan and Tony Blair reneged on their obligation to fund land reform in Zimbabwe.


Claire Short made Britain's reneging on it's obligation to fund land purchase in Zimbabwe official, when in November 1997, she wrote to the then Zimbabwean minster of Agriculture and Land:

"5 November 1997
From the Secretary of State

Hon Kumbirai Kangai MP
Minister of Agriculture and Land

Dear Minister

I should make it clear that we do not accept that Britain has a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe. We are a new Government from diverse backgrounds without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish and as you know we were colonised not colonisers.

Source: Swans, http://www.swans.com/library/art9/ankomah5.html

From Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!

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[nabonkhosi]

strange to say but this speech was made in 2008 and today in 2011, Robert Mugabe has only given land to his croonies and himself and not the average Zimbabwean...he talks a gud one but the fact is he is as gready as the colonial powers he claims to resent.

[tigerone1970]

@nabonkhosi

None of what you have said is correct. There are around 350,000 families who have received under both Willing Buyer, Willing Seller, and Fast Track land reform. Therefore, the claim that only 'friends and cronies of Mugabe' received land, is a slur to delegitimize the land reform process. It are the 'new farmers' who are the engine behind the rebound in agriculture today.

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[tigerone1970]

@nabonkhosi

Also, this speech was not in 2008, but in 2000, at Mount Olivet Baptist Church.

And the reason the speech sounds good, is because it is true.

[scaramoucheblue]

What is the crowd who claims mugabe was not elected democratically trying to prove? Hu Jin Tao, Putin and his predecesor, Saudi crown princes, kuwait princes, etc. none are elected and they are our allies. The economy of zimbabwe went bad when the usa put a credit freeze on zimbabwe. Member how the credit freeze affected america in the housing collapse. America is the richest country, what do you think the same does to a 3rd world country?

@tigerone, exactly, zimbabwe is a rural country.

[tigerone1970]

@scaramoucheblue

" What is the crowd who claims mugabe was not elected democratically trying to prove? "

They are planters who want their estates back, and diamond miners who want to secure their huge concessions, both in Zimbabwe and the DRC, Angola, South Africa, Botswana, etc.

The people are being robbed of their natural resources, that is what all these 'wars' are about.

[Afrobabe]

Hail Mugabe!

[themrduragss]

Hes a great man!! I feel tears..

[chilltip]

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[MegaContented]

Painted a Devil by devils.

May be he is not a Saint , I see South African blacks with no homes. No land no future . But I think He did the right thing, land reform is oK. By all means.

[heckler171]

@TruthFan 12 million hectares is like 30 million acres

[heckler171]

@TruthFan no he said hectares which is a LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more then 12 million acres.

[TruthFan]

Did he say 12 million acres? WOW, that's a lot of land.

[TruthFan]

"We shall take the land and pay no compensation!" Brilliant

[83leaf]

BLACK POWER!!!!