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Zanu PF has reconstructed racism PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 02 February 2012 17:36

THE opinion piece by South African ambassador to Zimbabwe Vusi Mavimbela “Why the Herald is wrong about Mandela” (Zimbabwe Independent, January 27) was very informative.  It delved into the problems associated with the dismantling of apartheid institutions and the reconstruction of these within a non-racial paradigm.


Mavimbela, however, begins to swim in murky waters when he states that “it is my understanding that the land and indigenisation policies in Zimbabwe are premised on the quest to achieve economic justice for all the people of Zimbabwe, black and white”.

 


What of Gukurahundi, the land grabs and Operation Murambatsvina? To correct the ambassador, I would like to say that the policies were never premised on the quest to achieve economic justice for all the people of Zimbabwe; black and white.


President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF made the land policy to be totally racist and drove white farmers off their land, and parcelled out the productive land to their clique.


Mugabe and Zanu PF have reconstructed racism such that I cannot feel free to visit friends in the rural areas, not for fear of myself, but for my friends, who might be asked who the white man who visited them is.


I cry for the lost ethos of freedom and tolerance in Zimbabwe.

Umbrage,
Harare.

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