Land reform in Zimbabwe

In Zimbabwe, the question of land distribution and redistribution (land reform) was perhaps the most crucial and the most bitterly contested political issue today. However, moves since May 2005, by the Mugabe regime to move disaffected urban MDC supporters out into the rural areas by intimedation and violence (aka Operation Murumbutvina, otherwise known as Operation "Cleaning

Lancaster House Agreement

After the Lancaster House Agreement paved the way for majority rule, and elections were won by Robert Mugabe in late February, 1980. The three-month long Lancaster House conference nearly failed over Land issues. However, the British agreed to fund reform, on a Willing buyer, Willing seller principle, where farmers who were unwilling to stay in Zimbabwe would be bought out by funds provided by the British through the Zimbabwe government.

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Lancaster House Agreement - Robert Mugabe - 1980

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