Opinion / Columnist
Zanu PF stubbornly deny povo title deeds, they're poorest and rural ares are party's strongest hold. Surprised!
22 May 2024 at 09:00hrs | Views
Ian Smith refused to give rural peasants the right to own even a piece of land the size of football field and yet white settlers were given title deeds to farms thousands of square kilometres. No one owned the land; all land was owned by the tribe (read state) hence Tribal Trust Land. Government could remove you from wherever you had settle if it so decide and so it was unwise to invest time or resources in building a decent home.
With no title deed to the land you could not use your home for collateral security.
Denying blacks ownership to the land was a very effective way of keeping the blacks poor and economically and politically powerless.
It is ironic but not at all surprising that Zanu PF has stubbornly refused to give blacks title deeds. It is no coincidence that the rural folk are the poorest of the poor in Zimbabwe and Zanu PF considers rural areas it political stronghold. Mnangagwa himself is on record boasting of how Zanu PF would frogmarch rural voters to the polling stations!
The sheer cynicism and callous indifference with which Zanu PF removed families soon after the 2023 elections, supposedly for settling on State land without authority; was, no doubt, meant to remind us all of the regime's limitless satanic power over our lives.
There really is no excuse why rural folk should continue to be denied title deeds to one square kilometre of land on which their home is built. It will spur them to build decent homes and look after the land better than the soulless Tribal Trust has ever done!
It there is one thing that would mean the most to the rural folk, it is the right to own the land on which their home stand. The right to free, fair and credible elections; freedom of expression and all the others rights and freedoms and nothing to these people in comparison to having a place they can finally call their own.
If the rural folk had title deeds to the land then these Chinese would not be kicking them off the land so willy-nilly!
Rural peasants are human beings and have the right to own property like any other human being. For Pete's sake, give the rural folk title deeds, no more of these offer letters which are not worth the paper they are written on, to the land and put an end this abomination now!
With no title deed to the land you could not use your home for collateral security.
Denying blacks ownership to the land was a very effective way of keeping the blacks poor and economically and politically powerless.
It is ironic but not at all surprising that Zanu PF has stubbornly refused to give blacks title deeds. It is no coincidence that the rural folk are the poorest of the poor in Zimbabwe and Zanu PF considers rural areas it political stronghold. Mnangagwa himself is on record boasting of how Zanu PF would frogmarch rural voters to the polling stations!
There really is no excuse why rural folk should continue to be denied title deeds to one square kilometre of land on which their home is built. It will spur them to build decent homes and look after the land better than the soulless Tribal Trust has ever done!
It there is one thing that would mean the most to the rural folk, it is the right to own the land on which their home stand. The right to free, fair and credible elections; freedom of expression and all the others rights and freedoms and nothing to these people in comparison to having a place they can finally call their own.
If the rural folk had title deeds to the land then these Chinese would not be kicking them off the land so willy-nilly!
Rural peasants are human beings and have the right to own property like any other human being. For Pete's sake, give the rural folk title deeds, no more of these offer letters which are not worth the paper they are written on, to the land and put an end this abomination now!
Source - zimbabwelight.blogspot.com
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