The Nature Boy said:
why do you think the blacks are doing it? you think it's payback?
Technically yes. When Rhodesia got independence and became Zimbabwe, AFAIK the big landowners (white colonists or descendants of white colonists) retained control of the land. The war, BTW, was highly racially motivated, and racial politics are a BIG deal over there.
The theory with the land seizures is to take the land and divide it out more equitably, which in THEORY sounds nice BUT - of course, it's being done the WRONG way.
First of all they are giving violent mobs the excuse to take some revenge for whatever whites did to piss them off during the war. And allowing rampant violence and initimidation.
A lot of the folks who are being given land know nothing about how farming works. If Mugabe had any sense at all, or any interest in actually DOING something for his country he would phase the whole thing in over maybe a decade or two. Offer the white a fair price for the land, and handit over piece by piece after sending the new folks to ag college.
But he doesn't give a shit as long as he remains in power - my guess is he saw the landowners as potential rivals for power and decided to cause chaos to eliminate them, not caring about the consequences.
Now they are having a food shortage and shitloads of people are gonna die.
Now, it's true the West is paying more attention because the farmers are white, I guess they have a lot of relativdes in the UK etc, but I still think the whole situatino is shitty...