Zimbabwe Backtracks on Land Reforms as Sanctions Take Toll
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, to talk about reports that Zimbabwe is reversing course on the land reforms it's pursued for the last twenty years, the role of sanctions in creating the dire circumstances which prompted this move, why economic aggression towards Zimbabwe from the US, NATO, and Australia is also a warning to other African nations to move away from pursuing economic self-determination, whether it's fair to lay all the current financial problems at the doorstep of the ruling party, why a reduction of sanctions is the only way the US can improve the situation, how the counterattacks by white Rhodesians, imperial powers, and opposition parties mean Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa must tread lightly, whether the European Union may reconsider their current sanctions on Zimbabwe in light of Britain's departure from the international bloc, and the ongoing role of Russia and China in helping keep the Zimbabwean economy afloat amid the economic attacks.