(April 19th, 2005)
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When Zimbabwe launched its land reform efforts five years ago, the media focused much of its attention on the white farmers who were targeted for removal. But it’s not just farm owners who’ve fled the country. Gretchen Wilson reports that as Zimbabwe’s economy has collapsed, its farm workers have found that leaving […]
(April 13th, 2005)
Many commercial farmers from Zimbabwe relocated to neighboring countries when land redistribution efforts began to push white farmers out of that country. Now, Gretchen Wilson reports on one family that’s started over in Botswana.
(April 4th, 2005)
It’s impossible to understand Zimbabwe’s parliamentary elections last week without understanding the extent of the nation’s hunger.
Last year, President Robert Mugabe suspended the vulnerability assessments traditionally used to predict how much food aid will be needed from NGOs and U.N. agencies, claiming that Zimbabwe would produce a bumper harvest and that extra food would therefore […]
(April 1st, 2005)
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Zimbabweans cast their votes today in a parliamentary election. We can safely project a winner. President Robert Mugabe and his party. This despite the fact that his country’s economy is not what you’d call healthy. You may have heard of Mugabe’s land reform program… The one to transfer farm ownership from whites […]
(April 1st, 2005)
In Harare’s Mbari neighborhood, there’s a small outpost of Zimbabwe’s most vital black market. It’s next to the one-room apartments that used to house migrant laborers, where women and children now squat on the sidewalk building fires, and just beyond the open-air workshops where scores of the men now stand in the mud building coffins […]
