UK government funds anti-white land campaign

By Alex Singleton | 1 June 2005

Mass starvation in Zimbabwe has not discouraged the British government from funding a campaign which promotes anti-white "land reform" in Africa. The UK's Department for International Development gave £338,000 last year in "civil society" funding to support War on Want, a hard-Left campaign group.

War on Want has been central in setting up the Landless Peoples' Movement in South Africa. The Movement says it supports "the gallant actions of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe" in taking land from white farmers. According to War on Want: "The LPM is still at the early stages of mobilising people. It is working on building up the movement's leadership and profile, and developing ways to attract new members, and build relations with government and other movements. War on Want supports and assists their work."

War on Want says that white people own too high a percentage of African land and it says WoW is "at the centre of the tough battle for land."

It is unclear why the Department for International Development has anything to do with War on Want, given that the policies it supports have led to Zimbabwe becoming the fastest shrinking economy in the world.