PRAGOTI

Pragoti is reproducing the debate between Patrick Bond and Mahmood Mamdani,on the political impasse in Zimbabwe that was triggered off by Mamdani's article - 'Lessons of Zimbabwe'. Patrick Bond argues that Mugabe's survival is closely linked with the existing system of crony capitalism buttressed by extensive patronage. Mamdani on the other hand,traces the historic roots of the land question, and asserts the role of Western imperialism in the current situation and excessive vilification of Mugabe.

New data show that, even over the last three years, the extent of land acquired by the State government for industrial and infrastructural purposes was a fraction of the agricultural land distributed under land reform. Prof. V.K.Ramachandran writes in The Hindu. Article courtesy, The Hindu.