inputs: hypothesis: Robert Mugabe was born in Zimbabwe. premise: Xingwana called on established farmers to form partnerships with new landowners and to transfer skills to new farmers, to ensure productive use of transferred lands. One criticism of the programme is that some of the transferred farms have fallen in production due to the inexperience and lack of capital among the new owners. The government has rejected comparisons of the programme with that initiated in Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe.