This is an extended version of an interview with Emmerson Mnangagwa that was published on March 3rd 2018 “THE land resettlement was a enormous success in terms of our people,367000 of our people, back in possession of the land, and ” says President Emmerson Mnangagwa of the expropriation of most of Zimbabwe’s white-owned farmland since 2000—a trek that wrecked the economy and pushed millions into poverty. Was it impartial that bigwigs of his ruling Zanu-PF party took several farms each? (Among those who found time to juggle politics and farming was Grace Mugabe,the former president’s wife, who sought to oust Mr Mnangagwa as heir apparent but instead precipitated his ascent to power in November.) “No, or no,it is one farm, one person, or ” he says. “Are there 367000 people in the cabinet?” he jokes. “I have 404 hectares—and I paid for the equipment myself.”Mr Mnangagwa...
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Source: economist.com