The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Zimbabwe was known as the breadbasket of Africa until 2000 exporting wheat, tobacco, and corn to the wider world, especially to other African nations. However, today Zimbabwe is a net importer of foodstuffs from the Western World. Many farm owners and farm workers have been killed during violent takeovers.

Land reform has had a serious negative effect on the Zimbabwe’s economy and heavily contributed to its collapse in the 2000s. The heartless and corrupt ZANU-PF took all the farms from whites now they failed to maintain it. Due to insufficient knowledge around how to use technology to improve farming, high levels of unemployment, and low levels of interest in farming.

It is highly traumatic and hard to understand that Zimbabwe is endowed with rich fertile soils, yet Zimbabweans are leaving their country in record numbers in search of food among other economic reasons going to neighbouring countries such as Botswana, South Africa and Namibia. The onus is now on the neighbouring countries to advise, rebuke and warn the Zimbabwean president that a collapsed Zimbabwe will have contagion effects on South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, and Zambia.

KUDZAI CHIKOWORE

Citizens Coalition for

Change

London,

October 14, 2022.