Viewpoint by Jonathan Power*
LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Zimbabwe messed up its land reform. Now South Africa has decided to give a great push to its slow moving land reform. We'll see if it can avoid Zimbabwe's mistakes.
President Donald Trump tweeted that he'd asked his secretary of state to look into "farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of white farmers” in South Africa. That sounds more like what happened in Zimbabwe 25 years ago than what is going to happen in South Africa today, albeit the killings were not on a "large-scale”.