Ever Wonder What It Would Be Like
if Louis Farrakhan was President of his own country? Read this.
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Monday told white farmers, defying orders to hand over their land, that he stands by an August deadline for them to clear out and pave the way for his black resettlement land reforms.
“We set ourselves an August deadline for the redistribution of land and that deadline stands,” Mugabe said in a televised address during a funeral for a former finance minister.
Mugabe’s government had ordered 2,900 of the remaining 4,500 white commercial farmers to surrender their lands without compensation to black settlers by midnight last Thursday, August 8.
“We, the principled people of Zimbabwe, we, the true owners of this land, shall not budge. We shall not be deterred on this one vital issue, the land. The land is ours,” Mugabe told more than 15,000 supporters.