By Cde Patriot Sungura

Over the past two decades, ZANU PF’s campaign message has been a masterclass in repetition, centering almost exclusively on the noble cause of protecting the “gains of the liberation struggle.”

The fast-track land reform program, their pièce de résistance, became the ruling party’s rallying cry, particularly during the first decade of this millennium.

Citizens were relentlessly urged to cast their votes for ZANU PF, lest their newly acquired plots of land vanish into thin air.

“The opposition wants to reverse the land reform program and give back farms to the whites,” was a regular punchline at ZANU-PF rallies and in state media.

Now, the opposition need not worry about reversing the Land Reform Program because President Emmerson Mnangagwa is already doing so on their behalf.

President Ruka Chivende’s “Zimbabwe is Open for Business” mantra is now bearing fruit, with businessmen Billy Rautenbach and Kudakwashe Tagwirei owning land in every part of the country.

With Tagwirei now strategically positioned as chairman of the New Land Tenure Implementation Committee, citizens can rest assured that all land, including their graveyards, will end up being owned by President Mnangagwa’s business partners, Tagwirei and Rautenbach.

History repeats itself. Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) was once owned by the BSA Company, and Rautenbach and Tagwirei are the proclaimed new owners of Zimbabwe.

Last week, Rautenbach, with the support of President Mnangagwa, evicted beneficiaries of the Land Reform Program, including war veterans, from Springs Farm in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East.

In Chipinge, Rautenbach, through his Green Fuel Company, is evicting villagers from their ancestral land to set up an ethanol plant.

In Mwenezi, Rautenbach also owns vast tracts of land under Zim Bio Energy.

When it comes to land ownership under the Second Republic, whites come first.

Chilonga villagers in Chiredzi South can testify to this, as their land was allocated to Dendairy, a company owned by President Mnangagwa’s white friends from Kwekwe.

Forget about title deeds, Rautenbach and Tagwirei are the new owners of Zimbabwe!