land grab Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/land-grab/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 08 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 land grab Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/land-grab/ 32 32 Land grab was constitutional, Mugabe tells SA media https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/land-grab-was-constitutional-mugabe-tells-sa-media/ Wed, 08 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/land-grab-was-constitutional-mugabe-tells-sa-media/ Facing an appreciative audience in Pretoria, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has yet again defended his decision 20 years ago to seize land without compensation from white farmers. He tells a press conference following talks with President Jacob Zuma that the land grab was perfectly constitutional. In his hour long performance to the media at the […]

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Facing an appreciative audience in Pretoria, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has yet again defended his decision 20 years ago to seize land without compensation from white farmers.

He tells a press conference following talks with President Jacob Zuma that the land grab was perfectly constitutional.

In his hour long performance to the media at the Union Buildings, President Robert Mugabe blames the hardships suffered by dispossessed white farmers on his nemesis, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

He says Britain and the United States had undertaken to compensate the white farmers. But they’d reneged on this.

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Mugabe says the South African media can continue to criticise him.

But he urges them to recognise the national interest and show support for their President, Jacob Zuma.

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