Heloin wrote:Novus America wrote:True, but that is probably a mistake, all members and cronies of the Mugabe regime who received land from the seizures should be forced to return it.
The problem with that is while many of Mugabe's cronies have benefited and still do from the stolen land how do you return one of those farms but not rob another farmer. Most of the farms are now in the hands of good honest people and it's not always clear cut where the line of Mugabe thug and hardworking farmer.
Sure some people have gotten their farms returned, but that mostly comes from cronies who've fallen out of favour with the new regime.
Well maybe sell the land stolen by Mugabe cronies it and use the all the proceeds to help fund the compensation fund, so all victims benefit.
Of course one needs to err on the side of caution, some cases it is obvious (Grace for example should lose any land she gained) but if you are not sure them do not do it, I am against honest people who gained land from it being kicked off that land of course.
Sure it would not apply to all the land, but for any land recurved by the the obvious members of the regime they should lose it.
Of course as you point out the new government is completely corrupt and has plenty of former Mugabe cronies in its ranks, only those who fell out with the new regime instead of siding with it will actually be held accountable unfortunately.