We would rather die of hunger – Mutasa

s that food shortages or no food shortages, we are going ahead to remove the remaining whites. Too many blacks are still clamouring for land and we will resettle them on the remaining farms,” he said.
Mutasa, who is also in charge of state security and distribution of government food aid, said the Harare administration was under pressure to return some farms to whites or that it “spares those remaining because we are facing food shortages”.
The Lands Minister, who is one of President Robert Mugabe’s closest confidantes, did not say who was pressuring Harare to return seized farms or stop evicting remaining white farmers but he vowed “we would rather all die of hunger, but knowing full well that the land is in the hands of black people.”
Most of Zimbabwe’s firms have operated at about 30 percent of capacity since
the beginning of farm seizures in 200. – ZimOnline