Jump to full article: All-Africa.com, 2002-09-12
Author: Financial Gazette (Harare)
Intro: But while the Zimbabwean government is busy facilitating the starvation of the majority of its people by evicting commercial farmers, Chissano's countrymen have begun to eat food grown by those same rejected farmers. . .
Mozambique's Minister of Agriculture Helder Muteia says 20 farmers are working in the country and there is a "waiting list" of 50 others who have yet to fulfil conditions that will enable them to be allocated land.
Muteia expects Mozambique's first tobacco processing plant to result from Zimbabwean investment in the near future. This will free Mozambican tobacco producers from their current reliance on Malawi to process their crop. . .
At least six million Zimbabweans could starve to death and the country's top foreign currency earner, the tobacco industry, is on the verge of collapse.
The Mozambicans, on the other hand, will laugh all the way to the bank and to their larders.
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