Howard's latest act of madness
Posted: Tuesday, October 15, 2002

By Chinondidyachii Mararike

Glass-housed Caucasian Australia should think twice before throwing stones at Great Zimbabwe's stone-built palace of agrarian reforms.

It ought to know that the main battle in imperialism is over land. And when it comes to who in Zimbabwe owned the land, who had the right to settle and work on it, who kept it going, who won it back, and who should now plan its future, all African organisations in Europe, America and the Caribbean clearly recognise that President Mugabe is a grand narrative of emancipation and enlightenment that has mobilised people in the former colonial world to rise up and throw off neo-imperial subjugation and domination.

The Australian Prime Minister John Howard should know, if he doesn’t by now, that Zimbabwe’s land reform programme has the support of all African progressives the world over. MORE 

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