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Blacks Are Useless At Farming – Mugabe
27 February 2015
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has admitted “disastrous” failures in the country’s controversial land reform program meant to transform thousands of blacks into master farmers.
“I think the farms we gave to people are too large. They can’t manage them,” the 91-year-old leader said in unusually candid comments. “You find that most of them are just using one third of the land,” he said.
In the past he has tended to blame poor agricultural productivity on the weather and Western sanctions. The seizure of land from white farmers is seen as a key factor in Zimbabwe’s economic collapse since 2000.
The BBC’s Brian Hungwe in the capital, Harare, says it is not the first time President Mugabe has criticised new black farmers – but his comments are surprisingly frank.
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They point to continuous problems in accounting for low production levels and the under-utilisation of farms, which reflect badly thought-out land policies, he says.
Mr Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, was interviewed on the state broadcaster ZBC to mark his 91st birthday, which he celebrated last weekend.
He said he wanted to encourage farmers to go into wheat farming, and blamed low productivity on the new commercial farmers for failing to utilise all their land.
“You find that most of them are just using one third of the land,” Zimbabwe’s state-owned Herald newspaper quotes him as saying.
In the interview, he also denied pushing his wife Grace to enter politics.
Last year, she became head of the women’s league and in the ruling Zanu-PF party, and embarked on a nationwide tour, in which she denounced party rivals.

20 Replies to “Blacks Are Useless At Farming – Mugabe”

  9. mugabe you forgot one very important factor that you are useless at running the country too

  10. mugabe you forgot one very important factor that you are useless at running the country too

  11. Farming is not easy for sure.Farming is not just taking land and boast that you have land .Farming is a capital intensive business which also needs commitment and long hours in the sun to have things done.How can one claim to be a landowner but spend all the days in the city or if living on the farm you spend your energy on cutting down trees to sell as firewood in the city?

  12. Farming is not easy for sure.Farming is not just taking land and boast that you have land .Farming is a capital intensive business which also needs commitment and long hours in the sun to have things done.How can one claim to be a landowner but spend all the days in the city or if living on the farm you spend your energy on cutting down trees to sell as firewood in the city?

  13. I believe there are many black Zimbabweans who are able to farm. God was never going to bless the way the land issue was handled. land was given to all the wrong people. By destroying the white commercial farmers ZPF threw the baby out with the bath water. there could have been a healthy sharing/mentorship and learning from both sides without destroying an entire nation. Open up farming to ALL Zimbabweans regardless of race, clan, tribe or political affiliation. We all want to work to restore our nation: only ZPF stands in the way. Please wake up ZPF. In all this you are destroying yourselves as well.

  14. I believe there are many black Zimbabweans who are able to farm. God was never going to bless the way the land issue was handled. land was given to all the wrong people. By destroying the white commercial farmers ZPF threw the baby out with the bath water. there could have been a healthy sharing/mentorship and learning from both sides without destroying an entire nation. Open up farming to ALL Zimbabweans regardless of race, clan, tribe or political affiliation. We all want to work to restore our nation: only ZPF stands in the way. Please wake up ZPF. In all this you are destroying yourselves as well.

  19. Stupid, how can they be successful when the economy is at its knees. They are too lazy too to till the land.

  20. Stupid, how can they be successful when the economy is at its knees. They are too lazy too to till the land.

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