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(TALKZIMBABWE) Land audit should start in 1896

Land audit should start in 1896
Cde Nyika - Opinion
Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:23:00 +0000

DEAR EDITOR - PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC party told the BBC and other news organisations that they will be carrying out a land audit to establish land tenure in Zimbabwe and restore land ownership rights.

That is all well said, but I would like to urge the party to start in 1896-7 when the Pioneer Column came to Zimbabwe; when Cecil John Rhodes and his British South Africa Company (BSAC) robbed our people of their lands. Surely, these people cannot determine when they want history to begin.

Restoration of human rights, national healing and reconciliation should also start with the white settlers acknowledging how many people they killed when they robbed that land. They should acknowledge how many others died under the British settler regime.

There are many Black Zimbabweans who lost their land to White settlers.

The notorious land tenure and land husbandry acts robbed our people of valuable ancestral lands. They need to be returned to those people.

Just a thought, under the current call for restoration of human rights and other western demands!

Cde Nyika
Musami

Labels: COLONIALISM, LAND REFORM, LAND TRIBUNAL

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