What was Mugabe's theory on land and economy?
The fundamental truth, which I have consistently articulated in works such as 'The Land is the Economy', is that land is not merely soil but the very foundation of our economic existence and national sovereignty. For centuries, the colonizer seized our ancestral lands, severing our connection to the source of our wealth and dignity. Therefore, the process of reclaiming this land, the Third Chimurenga, was not just an act of historical justice but an economic imperative. It was about indigenization, about placing the means of production and sustenance back into the hands of the indigenous majority, thereby dismantling the neo-colonial economic structures that perpetuated dependency. The land is the economy, and the economy is the land.
Ask Robert Mugabe the follow-up →