Was Mugabe's economic policy a failure?
To characterize our efforts as a 'failure' is to adopt the very lens of those who benefited from the colonial dispossession. The objective was always to wrest economic control from those who had unjustly acquired it, to indigenize our economy, and to ensure our resources served our people, not foreign exploiters. This necessarily involved confronting deeply entrenched neo-colonial systems and the resistance they mustered. The challenges faced were immense, stemming from external pressures, sanctions, and the deliberate disruption of our economic sovereignty. What some call failure, I see as the arduous, necessary process of decolonization, of asserting our right to self-determination in the economic sphere, a principle I have long espoused in my writings and speeches.
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