SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Exodus

Socialist Action No. 4, 8 April 1983 · pp. 13-15 of the scan · 608 words

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page 13 of the scan

If Mugabe had embarked on such a course, this would almost certainly have resulted in a mass exodus of the whites, taking with them technical know-how. There have been a temporary set-back of the Zimbabwean economy. This is what happened in Mozambique Angola and, as in these countries, South Africa would have embarked on an immediate policy of destabilisation with both economic and military Hicalls.

Mugabe made his intentions clear even before the results of the elections were known. In an interview with the New York Times (5 March 1980), he said:

'We recognise that the economic and that whatever we must build on that. We are not going to interfere with private property whether it be in mining or the This promise he faithfully adhered to. not carried out is the land policy for which the militants fought.

still African families cramped into the old Tribal Trust Lands. nomenclature in no way improves the fertility of the land, or the misery of the families living there.

While the rich white farmers have been able to consolidate their positions, the black peasants have had to be content with rhetoric. In the winter MugaDt 54,000 families would be resettled in the coming three years. In January 1982, that target was raised 162,000. In fact, three years after the ZANU victory, only 20,500 families their would Mugabe have been resettled. By has government development of a middle ter between it and the peasantry.

commerce and industry ideas we have has four commercial banks;

What he has three building 700,000 has The change in of the people.

Bank perts announced that because of high transport costs. to

page 14 of the scan

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Socialist Action 8 April 1983

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