Land Focus: Welcome to the land wars

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01 June 2015

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By Mondli Makhanya

The land is the economy. The economy is the land.

So went a Zanu-PF slogan during the 2000 election campaign. Responding to the hunger for land among poor Zimbabweans and opportunistically using it as a cheap ploy to stem the growing unpopularity of his party, President Robert Mugabe sought to appeal to the millions who had been waiting for land since independence in 1980.

Read the full article from News24.