On the heels of the Zimbabwe delegation to London on Thursday 27 April 2000, and the UK Government offering £36 million to ‘slow’ land reform in Zimbabwe, the pace of change has now taken on unprecedented motion.

“The Justice Minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa has said “within 10 days the legal framework to take land and redistribute it to the people will be in place.”  www.cnn.com 29/4/00.

In a country of 12 million people, “one third of the territory – and three-quarters of the best farmland (75 percent)… covering an area the size of Spain, is still owned by some 4,500 white commercial farmers.” www.independent.co.uk 9/4/00.

The most productive land, is in the hands of white farmers whose ancestors stole the land and charged the owners a “Hut Tax” of 10 shillings (50p) a head, to live on the land.

Most of this land is used for Tobacco farming.  It accounts for 40 percent of Zimbabwe’s export earnings and foreign currency. Tourism also supports much of the Zimbabwean economy in the areas of ‘Game hunting,’ fishing and Safaris. www.telegraph..co.uk 26/4/00.

As the land crisis intensifies the Zimbabwean economy is threatened with total collapse as foreign investors withdraw their money and investments, fearing that ‘white land’ will be given to the native people of the country.

This co-ordinated move by the “European Union,” IMF, World Bank and other, International Banks and “G8” members is an ‘ace-in-the-pack’ move, similar to the action taken by these Organisations in January 1998 when they forced Robert Mugabe and his Government to abandon the “land grab” initiative, then in progress. (The Times – 19/1/98 p.12)

Refusal to stop the “land grab,” policy could have resulted in the mobilisation of the people to rise up against Robert Mugabe and his Government, and commence strikes, Organise mass demonstrations and commence civil disobedience.

Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister said, Peter Hain the Junior Foreign Office Minister, was behind a policy of “inciting political and economic instability, including sponsoring new political formations” in Zimbabwe.

He also said Britain is “influencing the International Monetary Fund to prevent the disbursement of funds to Zimbabwe,” and “manipulating international opinion by mischievously suggesting that Zimbabwe is grabbing ‘white land.’”  www.independent.co.uk, 23/3/00 – p.15.

White commercial farmers employ many of the Zimbabwean population and it is envisaged that the Black population will suffer the most, when they are sacked, or either unable to work because of the destruction of farms and the tobacco crop.

Now, former disgruntled employees and dissatisfied Zimbabwean’s against the policies of the Government are joining the ‘white-owned’ and backed opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

Closer to the ‘Ten-day deadline,’ contingency plans drawn up by the UK Government with Mozambique, the European Union and South Africa, for the evacuation of ‘whites,’ could be activated, if the threatened action takes place.

The ramifications against the Black community living in the Western Hemisphere are potentially life threatening especially for a Community that is not ‘United.’

Perhaps, the words of The Most Honourable Elijah Muhammad are now being fulfilled, when he warned – that when you see Africans taking back their land and killing whites in Southern Africa - know that white people would return to their homeland and desire to kill the Black people they see in that vicinity.

Their homeland is England and Europe!