Mbeki flays Zim’s corrupt elite

FORMER South African President Thabo Mbeki has urged the inclusive government to carry out a land audit as he defended the region’s decision to give a blind eye to the chaos that accompanied the agrarian reforms.

BY OUR STAFF REPORTER

Mbeki, who brokered the Global Political Agreement (GPA) that gave birth to the inclusive government in 2009, told delegates to the Zimbabwe Diamond Conference in Victoria Falls on Monday that the country was forced to delay the land reforms to avoid scaring whites in South Africa during negotiations to end apartheid.

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