Zimbabwe’s people are looking forward to a more prosperous future after Robert Mugabe resigned as president on Tuesday, ending his 37-year rule and Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn in to replace him BEN CURTIS/AP“Yesterday I drove past a rural store near my farm and the unemployed youth cheered me as I went past,” a white farmer told The Times. “Before they used to shout abuse, now they are looking to a new day when all Zimbabweans can work together on the land.”The farmer, who is in his sixties and declined to give his name, is one of only 300 whites who have managed to keep their agricultural land since Robert Mugabe, the former president, began his programme in 2000 of seizing farms from white owners and giving them to poor black labourers. The farmer added: “If Mnangagwa went to elections tomorrow, he would sweep up.”President Mnangagwa’s pledge to compensate the 5,000 white farmers whose land, machinery…

Source: The Times November 25, 2017 00:00 UTC