I am not sure if a lot of people on the platform know what a land grab is, or if it is just an African thing. A few years ago, the Zimbabwe government decided to take the white-owned farms where the families had been farming for a few generations. Yes, they arrive with armed men and you can either die or leave with nothing.
I have a few friends who lived there and had to leave with nothing. They basically had to take the clothes they had on them and leave their farms. Some of these friend have lost many family members who did not want to leave. I have been to Zimbabwe a few times and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of every visit. The Zimbabwean people are such nice friendly people.
How is it then that this can happen in such a beautiful country. Well, their leader is not the clearest thinker of all time.
To my shock when I opened the local online news site, I read that it is starting to happen again.
Rusape – Heavily armed Zimbabwean riot police this week besieged the property of a white commercial farmer, Robert Smart outside Rusape town and forcefully evicted him from his farm.
President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party's youth and suspected members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation were also present during the eviction.
Workers at Lesbury Farm, about 26km west of Rusape, alleged that police fired live ammunition and teargas to disperse the labourers and villagers who had gathered at the farm in solidarity with Smart.
Some of the workers and villagers alleged that they were assaulted by the police, but no serious injuries were recorded.
One of the security guards at the farm, Reuben Chimombe, told News24 that the police officers and Zanu-PF youths ransacked Smart’s farmhouse before removing all the household property and throwing it on the roadside about 200m away.
You can read the full news article here