Zimbabwe - Mugabe admits land-grab failure

The Telegraph reports.

President Robert Mugabe admitted yesterday that Zimbabweans were "begging" for food because of his mass seizure of white-owned farms.

After years of official claims that his land policies would improve production and guarantee self-sufficiency, he confessed that many of those awarded white-owned farms were doing nothing with their gains.

"If farming is not in your blood, switch to what you are good at," Mr Mugabe told supporters in the capital, Harare. "We want those with land to use it. We don't want to keep begging for food."

Uh, then give the land back to the white farmers who fed you.

Meanwhile, Zimbabweans are said to have replied to Mugabe, "If leading a country is not in your blood, switch to what you are good at". Because we're tired of this:

The economy has shrunk by nearly 40 per cent since 2000. Inflation, at nearly 1,000 per cent, is the highest in the world.