Britain is committed to working with Zimbabwean authorities for the repatriation of the remains of Mbuya Nehanda and other First Chimurenga heroes. This come
Immortalised through bronze, for future generations to gourd from history, the magnificent yet serene statue of Mbuya Nehanda stands tall like a guardian
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Corn fields are harvested at Ivordale Farm on August 1, 2018 outside Harare, Zimbabwe [Dan Kitwood/Getty Images]
On August 31, the government of Zimbabwe announced that foreign white farmers settled in the country who lost land between 2000 and 2001 under former President Robert Mugabe’s controversial programme of land reform designed to empower landless Black peasants could apply to get it back.
To enforce this dubious arrangement, the government will revoke offer letters to Black farmers who were resettled on the land formerly belonging to white farmers. And where restitution proves impractical, white farmers will be offered land elsewhere.
A month earlier, the Zimbabwe government had already agreed to pay $3.5bn in compensation to local white farmers “for infrastructure on the farms they lost” when their lands were forcibly taken by the government.
2. It’s power is in the dead instead of the living
3. It will destroy & kill in order to appease the dead
“HOW DO YOU BUILD A STATUE WHILST SHUTING DOWN HOSPITALS?” pic.twitter.com/aBckJkoKpQ
– Shingi Munyeza (@ShingiMunyeza) July 8, 2020
“Why waste money like this in a nation where millions are food insecure and maternal mortality remains a scourge?” MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said last week. She said the money spent on the statue could have been better spent on increasing funding to the Harare maternity hospital that bears Mbuya Nehanda’s name.
Critics accuse Mnangagwa’s ZANU-PF party and government of co-opting Nehanda’s legacy for political gain.