Land without justice: The endless tragedy of Zim’s powerful evictors

REPORTS that Vice-President Kembo Mohadi’s son, Mafenyadira, has evicted 21 families from a farm in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central province, are a painful reminder that in Zimbabwe, land remains both a symbol of liberation and an instrument of oppression.

The families, including young children, are reportedly sleeping in the open, exposed to the elements as the rainy season begins.

Their homes are gone, their crops destroyed, their lives uprooted — casualties of a system that continues to privilege the powerful at the expense of the powerless.

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