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Mugabe to ask whites back in land grab U-turn
 President Robert Mugabe has begun to reverse his "insane" land grab and offer some white farmers the chance to lease back their holdings in Zimbabwe. With the fastest shrinking economy in the world, Mr Mugabe has had to backtrack on six years of chaos and his own determination to rid the country of all white farmers.
| I don't recall the story about the white farmers having been dropped on their heads. Why would he expect them to return? |
| Death wish would be the only reason ... |
The U-turn is expected to be announced within days. The ruling Zanu-PF party's politburo has been informed and selected journalists in the state-controlled media have been briefed on how to spin the policy reversal.
| We'll be looking forward to seeing hundreds of Zim journalists bumping into the walls, because spinning that one will make anyone dizzy. |
The government is expected to admit in the next few days that it has only used about 50 per cent of the land it seized. In reality, land economists say the figure of idle land is nearer 80 to 90 per cent.
Such waste.....
| How big a rube would one have to be to return to such a situation? |
Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2006-02-09 |
