Abstract
Far from empowering the people, Zimbabwe's fast-track land reform program disempowered ordinary people through loss of jobs, education, health facilities, voting rights and food. The program reduced the country from its status of being the food basket of Africa to a basket case where more than half of the population survives on international food aid annually. Ordinary Zimbabweans have been pushed back to Hobbes's state of nature where life is short, solitary, nasty and brutish. However the program managed to meet the economic and political needs of the ruling elites who used it to crush the opposition while seizing the opportunity to acquire large commercial farms through state terror. Why fast-track, and why codename land reform a 'war of liberation'?
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
