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Land and Natural Resource Redistribution in Zimbabwe: Access, Equity and Conflict.
The struggle for land redistribution in Zimbabwe raises a number of critical policy questions, and lessons for the southern Africa region. Twenty years after independence following armed liberation struggle, the structural roots of Zimbabwe’s current political conflict and economic crisis remain largely defined by racially based inequalities in land ownership and access, to related resources. In this context the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) together with land owners and the munity ‘have been seeking’ a framework for land negotiations since 1980s, however the market route chosen for land transfer was ineffective and failed to deliver adequate land for resettlement.
One of the unique features of Zimbabwe’s land reform crisis is that its decolonization in 1980 was not panied by guaranteed arrangements for the former colonial powers to restore lost land rights or pensate for the same. While, the United Kingdom (UK) in 1997 at Lancaster House promised £75 million for Zimbabwe’s land redistribution alongside apparent United States of America (USA) offers of US$ 500 million for the same, there was no formally binding procedure which underlay this. Reparations were not directly discussed. Instead a vague “development assistance” framework was used to prescribe such support, in spite of