Eighty-year-old Isobel Simons calmly narrated how she and her late husband lost their 728-hectare Zimbabwe farm two decades ago to Robert Mugabe's controversial land reforms.
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube in a letter to the IMF in April, projected the economy could contract by between 15 and 20%, partly due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I don't feel any remorse at all. The land belongs to the indigenous people. If the whites want to farm, they should do so on our terms.” Ultimately a deal was struck that the new government would not embark on any land reforms in the first decade in power. Sporadic invasions of white-owned farms ensued, but the government curbed them, with Mugabe assuring white farmers that “squatting” would not be tolerated.
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