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This is a 120 year old problem and it needs to be resolved soon, as its much reaches even deeper than the minerals which are being mined
LAND ISSUE - FACT SHEET
PRE-INDEPENDENCE LEGISLATIon on LAND.
Throughout the history of Zimbabwe, land has remained the most important political and economic issue in the country. This can be traced back to the time of the Pioneer Column in the late 1800s and the subsequent legal instruments that were passed and entrenched to ensure division of the ownership of land between the two major races namely, blacks and whites. The evolution of these legal instruments is as follows:
The Lippert Concession (1889)
This Concession which preceded the actual occupation of Zimbabwe in 1890 allowed would-be settlers to acquire land rights from the indigenous people. The act resulted in the British South African Company (BSAC) buying concessions from the British Monarch which were then used as a basis of land expropriation. The revenue accrued was repatriated to the United Kingdom and the indigenous peoples, the owners of the land, got nothing.
The Native Reserves Order in Council (1898)
The order created the infamous Native Reserves for blacks only. This was in the face of a systematic mass land expropriation by white settlers. To the whites, the Native Reserves were meant to prevent the extinction of the indigenous people while at the same time guaranteeing that settlers got the lion's share of fertile land. The result was that Native Reserves were set up haphazardly in low potential areas which subsequently became the present Communal areas.
1890-1920 Period.
This was a period of conquest and land expropriation. The BSAC was in the forefront of the occupation of Mashonaland and Matebeleland and the suppression of the first Chimurenga (National Uprising in 1893). These processes were accompanied by the seizure of land and cattle. Racial segregation in the use and ownership of land was introduced at an early stage. By the eve of World War one in 1914, the apportionment of land was as follows:
Africans 24 000 000 acres
The BSAC 48 000 000 acres
Individual white settlers 13 000 000 acres
Other Private Companies 9 000 000 acres
During this period, the country's population was as follows:
African population 836 000
Whites 28 000
Even by this early period, only 3% of the population controlled 75% of the economically productive land while 97% were forcefully confined to 23% of the land scattered into a number of reserves.
The Land Apportionment Act (1930)
The main purpose of the act was to formalise separation by law, land between blacks and whites, and this was after the deliberations and recommendations of the Morris Carter Commission of 1925. The fertile high rainfall areas became large scale privately owned white farms. In 1931, the act divided the land area in the country as follows:
Land classification Acreage
Native Reserves 29 000 000 acres
Native Purchase Areas 8 000 000 acres
European areas 49 000 000 acres
Unassigned 6 000 000 acres
Forest 3 000 000 acres
Population distribution was as follows:
Africans: 1.1 million
Whites: 50 000
Native Land Husbandry Act (1951)
The act meant to enforce private ownership of land, destocking and conservation practices on black small holders. It met mass resistance and fueled nationalistic politics. The law was subsequently scrapped in 1961.
The Tribal Trust lands (TTL) act (1965)
The act was devised to change the name of the Native Reserves and create trustees for the land. High population densities on TTLs made them degraded 'homelands'.

Mugabe is a HERO. Kofi Annan is a ZERO, just because he wants to play a game, whose rules are given to him by his close friend Lord Malloch Brown. Check their history and their interests to get wealth flowing into their pockets. Who do the Elders work for? Why do they think they should have the right to call Zimbabwe a Distater Zone, when they created the problems.
In 1994 Malloch Brown joined the World Bank as Vice-President for External Affairs, which included responsibility for relations with the United Nations.In 1999, he moved back to the United Nations where he was appointed Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) by the recently elected Kofi Annan. During his time he spear-headed a number of reforms, including following up the creation of the United Nations Development Group (UNDG),by Kofi Annan in 1997. The group, chaired by Malloch Brown as the Administrator of UNDP, has tried with mixed success to co-ordinate the activities of all the UN's development programmes. Internally at UNDP, which was facing increased competition from the World Bank in its areas of responsibility such as capacity building, governance and emergency recovery, he tried to re orient UNDP's activities (sometimes controversially), because of competition with other UN agencies who were also adapting to the demands of a globalizing world. Compared with his predecessor, he improved resource mobilisation from donor countries. Perhaps most importantly, he claims he was one of the key architects of the Millennium Development Goals which were adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in December 2000.
In January 2005 Malloch Brown was appointed Chef de Cabinet to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, retaining his position as Administrator of UNDP until the appointment of his successor.
Deputy Secretary-General
on March 3, 2006 it was announced that Mark Malloch Brown would succeed Louise Fréchette as United Nations Deputy Secretary-General on April 1, 2006. He was the second person to hold this post in the UN's history. As the appointment is made by the UN Secretary-General and not the UN General Assembly, Malloch Brown's term of office ended with the completion of Kofi Annan's term at the end of 2006.
So Rt. Hon Lord Malloch Brown who is the Deputy Foreign Secretary and also the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister who has specific responsibility for Britain's relations with countries in Asia and Africa – including Sri Lanka should be wanting to see the back of Robert Mugabe and get back land in farm, since the british think they have the right to Africa.
At least we know who Annan's close friends are, as it has just been shown to you here, but anywhere, its not true if its not coming out of Europe or US. Who is calling the shots for Annan.

It is about time that the African countries rounded on Mugabi and got rid of him and his corrupt regime ,it is already effecting surrounding countries and yet they do nothing ,it is not the job of the EU or Britain to intervene it is an African problem and we would not be thanked by anyone for poking our noses in .
Mugabi is a man who will never change ,he has robbed his people of milions of dollars and salted them away like maost dictators have done ,sanctions will make no difference ,onlystarve the people who oppose him, he must be thrown out along with his revolting family and supporters ,but only by the African nations.