*US Must Shake Itself from Policy Dilemma on Zimbabwe Sanctions Adventurism*

1. Only 30% of imposed sanctions end with complete or partial goal attainment. A POLICY DILEMMA for US is that regime change & land reversal in 🇿🇼has not yielded 21 yrs later. US policy makers simply 2. need to capitulate, & not hold onto measures whose costs exceed the benefits derived from them - SANCTIONS FATIGUE

Washington imposed #ZIDERA without a clear road-map for its eventual removal - precise knowledge about how, when, & why sanctions end was not thought of.

Farm Mechanization Furore

1/FTLR created nascent farmers with no wherewithal for farm establishment. The role of state in funding farmers has been a recurrent theme in the past 130 yrs. Govts support of new farmers thru schemes was/is crucial @matigary @chakatsvamelody @kmutisi 2/The skewed RBZ farm mechanization allocations can be looked upon as a sui generis case of corruption. Politicians & civil servants improperly enriched themselves. However, this does not take away from the fact that grants/loans had to flow as a matter of necessity to farmers.

The story of “Makate and Nehoreka”

1/ The story happened about 1840 in the district of Mtoko in north-eastern Zimbabwe.

Chief Makate who lived in Mtoko was well known and feared for his powerful war charms. No other king could defeat him and none dared go to war with him. 2/ But one king from the north, Nehoreka, decided to invade Makate’s chiefdom intending to take Makate’s fertile lands. As expected he was defeated as Makate used his dreaded war charms.