🇿🇼 *🌍 "Land: Africa’s ‘First Wife’—Why Liberation Movements Fought for Soil, Not Ballots"* 🇿🇼 🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼 🇿🇼 *History of Zimbabwe Myths and Truths Villaedge* 🇿🇼 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Hb01mf4Q7O5JaeeWmdiD6b Joshua Maponga’s metaphor hits hard: *“Land is a man’s first wife—the mother of his children is his second.”* Here’s how this truth fueled SADC’s liberation wars and why the fight isn’t over. 🧵 *COLONIAL THEFT, AFRICAN LOSS* Pre-colonial Africa thrived on *land = identity, economy, & sovereignty*. Colonialism stole it, replacing ancestral systems with extractive rule. Liberation movements (ZANU, ANC, FRELIMO) didn’t fight for parliaments—they fought for *land back*. *SADC LAND REFORM: WINS & FAILURES* *🇿🇼 Zimbabwe* - *Fast-Track Reform (2000s)*: Redistributed white-owned farms—but chaos + sanctions crippled agri-systems. - *Myth*: “It was about Mugabe’s power.” - *Truth*: 70% of arable land WAS owned by 4,500 whites in 1980. 🇿🇦 South Africa - *2025 Reality*: 72% farmland STILL white-owned. - *Trump’s Sanctions*: Backlash against ANC’s Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC) push. 💥 *🇳🇦 Namibia* - “Willing Buyer” Trap: Slow, market-driven reform keeps land in colonial hands. *🇲🇿🇦🇴 Mozambique & Angola* - *State Control → Foreign Land Grabs*: Post-war “investors” exploit weak policies. *DEMOCRACY VS LAND: THE COLONIAL TRAP* Kwame Nkrumah warned: *“Political independence is meaningless without economic sovereignty.”* Yet post-independence, SADC copied Western democracy; *prioritizing ballots over soil*. Result? - *Neo-Colonial Debt*: IMF loans > land justice. - *Elite Betrayal*: Leaders cling to power, not soil. *MAPONGA’S METAPHOR TODAY* 1. *First Wife (Land)*: Control resources or stay chained to foreign masters. 2. *Second Wife (Future)*: No food security = no sovereignty. 🔥 HOT TAKE Western sanctions (Zim/SA) aren’t about “human rights”—they’re about *protecting colonial land interests*. Until Africa reclaims its soil, “independence” is a lie. *🗳️ POLL: Are SADC leaders:* A) Secretly upholding colonial land systems? B) Too weak to fight Western pressure? C) Distracted by political power games? *💬 COMMENT*: How would YOU fix land reform and how? #landback #sadctruths #decolonizeafrica *Follow @RozviVillaedge for raw history, not propaganda.* 🌱 https://x.com/RozviVillaedge?t=Xct-Uwpjjykv368RICAH_g&s=09 🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼