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

Media analysis

The scale of the drop in farm output has produced widespread claims by aid agencies of starvation and famine. However Mugabe's expulsion of the international media has prevented full analysis of the scale of the famine and the resultant deaths. What is not in dispute is that a country once so rich in agricultural produce that it was dubbed the "bread basket" of Southern Africa, is now struggling to feed its own population.

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