While this article is spot on about most points, these stories need to get away from the "black against white" story. At a certain level perhaps, but the real problem is taking farms away from productive farmers and turning over the farms to cronies who know nothing about farming. Maybe the owners of the farms had been white though many workers who are black were also thrown out of the farms. Robert Mugabe then handed previously productive farms over to cronies to buy influence though few have had any experience with running a farm. None of this will change until Mugabe is gone.
Rainbow's End got its name from its bumper crops of grain, fruit and vegetables. But now the pot of gold is empty. Most of the land is derelict and cut off by a collapsed bridge.
Once one of the most productive farms in this troubled southern African nation, Rainbow's End will have very little to harvest next season, even as farmers' organizations forecast huge crop shortfalls and the U.N. says 2 million Zimbabweans — nearly one-fourth of the population — will need food aid in January.
President Robert Mugabe's campaign to run Zimbabwe's whites off their farms and redistribute them to the black majority continues despite the expectation that being forced into a coalition government with the opposition would at least partially restrain him, restore agriculture and protect human rights.
