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Guardian Unlimited | Could South Africa be Next? - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/apr/18/zimbabwe.comment
Liz McGregor analyses crucial differences which mean the current land dispute in Zimbabwe is unlikely to be replicated in its southern neighbour. |
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BBC News | Mbeki Speech - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/monitoring/media_reports/738280.stm
South African President Thabo Mbeki calls for a peaceful solution to the violent dispute in Zimbabwe over land reform. |
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Guardian Unlimited | On the Front Line in Land War - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3971954,00.html
The squatters on Zimbabwe's tobacco farms show the country's big gulf is between Mugabe's supporters and the rest. |
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The Seattle Times: Zimbabwe Farm Battles Go Deeper than Politics - http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=4020045&date=20000510
Brief article on the history of Zimbabwe and on land disputes among native Ndebele tribes in the region. |
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Guardian Unlimited | Century's Fight to Recover Land - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/apr/09/zimbabwe.andrewmeldrum
Land has been one of the most controversial issues in Zimbabwe for the past 100 years. The war to end white-ruled Rhodesia was fought largely over land. Robert Mugabe's guerrilla fighters, and the peasants who supported them, battled to regain the land seized from them by British colonists. |