Robert Mugabe

Mugabe: Now the remaining farmers are facing the same treatment if Mugabe follows up his talk with action. But Mugabe and his government have been doing a lot of talking since the 90-year-old and his Zanu-PF party won a huge majority in the elections on July 31, 2013. Although Mugabe has been able to regain sole control since then, having left behind his unpopular coalition partner and rival Morgan Tsvangirai, he has barely implemented any of his promises. Whether the debt crisis, economic growth or any progress on who could take over the presidential office: everything is at a standstill. "The country is totally stagnating," says J rgen Langen, Head of the Zimbabwe office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation a German political think tank. Only a few Zimbabweans still believed that the government or the opposition could solve the country problems, Langen adds, according to Deutsche Welle. Grave economic situation Even in his seventh term as president, Robert Mugabe rhetoric remains the same as ever. "Do not be too kind to white farmers. Land is yours, not theirs," he declared in a speech at the beginning of July. According to the Zimbabwe Farmer Union, there are still around 150 white large landowners 4000 others had their land seized and were driven out in the early 2000s, with Mugabe approval. Mugabe won the 2013 elections by a clear majority (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.