White farmers in Zimbabwe

This is Gus, who drove me from the Malawi/Tanzania border down through central Malawi… a very nice guy. He is also one of the white Zimbabwean farmers whose land was taken from him by Mugabe in 2002, part of Mugabe’s efforts to give Zim back to the black Africans. Gus had two months to leave his farm, but others only had 6 hours. And while Gus still has the title deed, he received nothing in payment… now some Zim Minister is just sitting on the land.

While I agree that much of Africa’s land and resources was stolen by white people, it didn’t make sense to just steal it back, the way that Mugabe did… all he did was destroy the country’s economy and agricultural capabilities and give all the land to his cronies, NOT “the people,” like he said he was going to do!

Gus now lives in Tanzania and buys and sells paprika…