Huyu Mzee amechoka. Wananchi wake wanakimbia kila siku Afrika Kusini kuomba ukimbizi. Watu wanakufa na njaa. Ardhi aliyowapokonya wazungu nyingi kawapa ndugu na rafiki zake. Sasa Zimbabwe inaagiza chakula badala ya kuuza kama zamani. Hataki wapinzani. Tutafute kiongozi mwingine lakini sio huyu Dikteta. Ni mtesaji wa wananchi wake.
South Africa is sending back more than 4,000 Zimbabweans every week, up more than 40 per cent from 2006.
it is widely estimated that 3.4 million Zimbabweans - a quarter of the population - have now fled.
Christopher is one of the border jumpers. 'People are leaving Zimbabwe because the government is not looking after the people - it's against the people, it's beating people, it's shooting people,' he says. 'There's no law in Zimbabwe. The law is for the President, he works for himself with the police and army only. That's why people are running away from Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's controversial land reforms have cost the country $12 billion in lost agricultural production.
In the early 2000s, Mugabe began seizing white-owned farms and land in an attempt to reverse colonial-era inequalities. The plan was to re-settle the land with black farmers, and to ensure that no one owns more than one property.
However, according to the Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe (CFU), Mugabe and his extended family now own 39 farms themselves.
"Land that has been allocated to the people is lent under a system of political patronage. The continued use and occupation of the land is dependent on their political affiliation and loyalty," said CFU head Deon Theron in his report on the program.
"There is no genuine empowerment or farmer autonomy, there is no security of tenure and there is no collateral value attached to the land. It is a dead asset, which cannot drive its own development."
What's more, Theron says that the farm reforms have dropped agricultural production by 70 percent. Prior to the "land invasions," Zimbabwe's farming industry produced 4.3 million metric tons per year, worth about $3.5 billion. But in 2009, the country only produced 1.4 million metric tons, worth around $1 billion.
Sources: ibtimes.com,theguardian.com.