via ‘Evicted white farmers feed Zimbabwe’ – DailyNews Live Tendai Kamhungira • 23 March 2016
HARARE – The maize being imported into Zimbabwe from Zambia is coming from white commercial farmers evicted during the often-violent land invasions here, President Robert Mugabe has ironically conceded.
Speaking at a Zanu PF rally held on Friday at Chipadze Stadium in Bindura, Mugabe said the country was importing tonnes of the staple maize grain from Zambia to plug a deficit after bad weather affected the crop from the current farming season.
“…iye zvino tiri kutenga chibage kuZambia, Zambia yakatora mabhunu aiva kuno ndokuvapa nzvimbo ndosaka vaine chibage chakawanda kupfuura chavanoda ivo… (at the moment we are importing maize from Zambia, Zambia gave former Zimbabwean white commercial farmers land and that’s why they have surplus food),” Mugabe said.
Zimbabwe requires at least 1,8 million tonnes of maize annually and has over the years relied on imports from neighbouring countries, including Zambia and South Africa, to plug the gap from local production.
Zimbabwe has been gripped by a political and economic crisis since the government launched a campaign in 2000 to seize white-owned farms for redistribution to landless blacks.
The policy gutted commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe.
Currently,more than 1,5 million people, more than 10 percent of the population, face hunger, WFP said.
One particularly worrying symptom of Zimbabwe’s vulnerability to food and nutrition security is the alarming rate of chronic malnutrition, with levels of stunted growth among children getting worse.
COMMENTS
So?
THAT IS THE RESULT OF DUMB LEADERSHIP!!!!!
This is nothing more than a monumental admission of failure by Bob, at least he knows how his country is actually surviving!!
His comments make it sound like he has no idea why all those white farmers are now in Zambia… the mind boggles.
So that’s what happens when you bite the hand that feeds you?
ROFL – very funny. These buggers have No shame!
(at the moment we are importing maize from Zambia, Zambia gave former Zimbabwean white commercial farmers land and that’s why they have surplus food)
And now Zhuwao is busy destroying business on The Bhobho’s behalf. Truly, an insane nation.
Precisely. One of the said farmers is NICOLE Family. They now have five times more land in Zambia complete with aerodromes, GMB Type silos with 10times holding capacity than they had near Chinhoyi.
Meanwhile, the confiscated Chinhoyi farms are full of snakes and grass. All animals were killed for meat and trees, many chopped for wood sales in Harare.
Then you hear imbeciles crowing PAMBERI NA GU- SHUNG – HO!
Aiya! The African!? Nhai takaitwa sei mupfungwa!? 92.12years later.
That is called social justice.