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E Zimbabwe's president, Minster Mnangagwa, appealed to the country's declining white population to help rebuild the country in an unprecedented attempt to woo minority voters ahead of a controversial presidential election.
million. Mnangagwa The ruling party, ZANU-PF, was responsible for the often violent expulsion of thousands of white farmers in the early 2000s, promised a return to the "rule of law" at a meeting hasty with white voters in Harare on Saturday
. Help us. We used to do horticulture … we have to come back and become a breadbasket again, "he told about 250 people who responded to the invitation to surrender at the Harare Racecourse in Borrowdale.
"Collapsed" the country – the first time a senior Zimbabwean official acknowledged the devastation that Robert Mugabe's "agrarian reform" has had on the country.
More than 4,000 white farmers were stripped of about 17 million acres Most farmers, most of whom are now in their 60s and late 70s, left the country and few want to return to Zimbabwe.
The expelled farmers are entitled to compensation under the Zimbabwean constitution and Mr. Mnangagwa has made an explicit promise to pay it when he comes to power in November, but the government currently has not enough money to to do it.
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