Zimbabwe: Not the MDC!

It is interesting that there is very little comment in relation to the origins of the Zimbabwe crisis. Had the Lancaster House agreement been fulfilled, perhaps the land reform programme would have been more timely and orderly.

But where is the critism/analysis of the UK and US who turned their backs on the financial committments to pay the white farmers for the land that they had originally stolen from the Africans? It was not unexpected that mistakes were made in the resulting land reform programme given the absence of the financial guarantees originally committed the North.

But, where is the criticism of the World Bank, IMF, Commonwealth, European Union, US etc. which placed dranconian economic sanctions on Zimbabwe precisely because it took its land back? What developing country could survive such an economic attack which is the root cause of the economic crisis? Now we are supposed to join with the same villians who created the conditions for the crisis by condemning Mugabe in favour of a externally-created MDC whose leader was videotaped discussing assasination of the elected president?

When the dust clears, follow the land and see how quickly new schemes will be developed under this MDC to reverse the land reform, not in the interest of the Africans. After all, they must pay back their masters.