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The land question in Zimbabwe 




Land seizures, the background 

In recent months, more than 23 years after gaining independence and majority 
rule, the government of Zimbabwe finally expropriated the remaining 
approximately 4,000 surplus[1] commercial farms owned by white people - the whites 
having had up until now a virtual monopoly over commercial farming in Zimbabwe. 
According to Stephen Chan[2], "In 1992, 4,500 mostly white farmers owned 11.5 
million hectares. This was one third of the entire country. 7 million peasants 
lived on 16.4 million hectares of 'communal' farmland." Since Independence, "the 
government had purchased 3.3 million hectares" (for the resettlement of 
dispossessed black farmers). 

It is obvious that this situation was iniquitous. Moreover it was one which 
was always at the heart of the liberation movement. In fact it is fair to say 
that the millions of Zimbabwean peasants supported and fought in the war of 
liberation against settler colonialism precisely because they were cut off from 
the land and their livelihoods. It is not always realised that for them their 
expropriation at the hands of white settlers was not a matter of the dim and 
distant past. As David Blair explains in Degrees in Violence,[3] after 1945 
"thousands of new white settlers were flocking to Rhodesia and many had been 
promised farms by the British government. Demobilized soldiers were offered the 
chance to farm in Africa as a reward for service in the Second World War, and 
Rhodesia opened up new tracts to provide for them … "Quietly, with no fanfare, 
vast numbers of blacks were moved to make way for the new settlers. … No fewer 
than 85,000 black families were evicted between 1945 and 1955, totalling 
perhaps 425,000 people. Considering that the black population in 1945 barely 
exceeded 1.5 million, something approaching 30 per cent of all 'natives' were moved 
from their homes. … 

"[A] burning sense of grievance certainly existed. Land had been stolen, with 
blacks herded into 'Native Reserves' while their white rulers took possession 
of the most fertile fields." 

At the height of the liberation struggle, members of ZANU, the organisation 
which was most representative of the demands of the peasants and which 
therefore became and has remained, the leading party in the Zimbabwean people's 
struggle for emancipation, would frequently stress the importance of solving the 
land question. The reason the peasants could never be satisfied by simply seeing 
a few black faces sitting in government positions was that for them the war 
was all about land, and without gaining land, the war would have been fought in 
vain. 

Perfidious Albion 

Robert Mugabe, ZANU's leader, was always at pains to point out that he wanted 
the transfer of land to the majority population to be done consensually, with 
the white farmers, on the one hand, receiving compensation (to be provided by 
the British government who had been behind the 19th century expropriation of 
Zimabwe's soil by British settlers) and on the other being able to retain 
modest-sized holdings that would enable them to sustain their livelihoods. He duly 
undertook during the Independence negotiations at Lancaster House in London 
in 1978 that there would be no land expropriation without compensation, since 
at the time he did not believe forcible expropriation would be necessary. 
Stephen Chan[4] explains: "Mugabe was certain that John Major had reassured him 
that Britain would indeed assist with funds for compensation. Blair [i.e., the 
present prime minister, Tony Blair] … thought that Britain was not committed to 
such previous understandings. It had been an understanding in principle; 
figures had been loosely suggested, but there was never any formal document of 
binding agreement. To that extent, Blair was within his rights. However, from the 
very first great push to resolve the Rhodesian issue in the mid-1970s, under 
Henry Kissinger, the matter of compensation - subscribed to in hefty sums by 
the international community - was always an accepted principle. It was implicit 
in the Lancaster House talks, but Carrington ensured that, although he 
recognised that a future government (of Zimbabwe) would want to widen the ownership 
of land, it found no formal enunciation in the final agreement. Mugabe was 
asked why he had given way, at Lancaster House, on the land issue. 'We had to. 
That is the 'giving way' that I talked of, having to compromise on certain 
fundamental principles, but only because there was a chance, in the future, to amend 
the position' [5] Stephen Chan, who is certainly no friend of Mugabe's, 
nevertheless considers he was a victim of perfidious Albion, i.e., British 
imperialist treachery. 

Once it finally became clear that Britain was not going to honour its 
obligations, then Mugabe made it extremely clear that expropriation would proceed 
without compensation. As early as 1996 he was already saying: 

"We are going to take the land and we are not going to pay for the soil. This 
is our set policy. Our land was never bought (by the colonialists) and there 
is no way we could buy back the land. However, if Britain wants compensation 
they should give us money and we will pass it on to their children". 

Imperialist hysteria 

Even at this point, the hope was that Britain would fulfil its obligations 
once it was made clear to them that expropriation would go ahead. But of course, 
Britain responded not. The final order to white farmers to surrender their 
surplus farms was not made until August last year, 2002, after giving "the 
international community" more than enough time to do the decent thing. Since "the 
international community", however, is nothing other than the hyenas of 
imperialism, it was only too happy to see Mugabe, the leader of the Zimbabwean 
liberation struggle to whom they had had to concede defeat, discomfited. And although 
he was only doing what was logical and necessary and in accordance with the 
demands of his people, he was depicted in the western media as a power-crazed 
despot. 

Of course, what really turned him in the eyes of imperialism from what 
Margaret Thatcher called the "perfect African gentleman" into a major hate figure 
was his intervention in sending troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 
support of the latter's nationalist government against imperialist determination 
to seize control of its vast mineral wealth through the encouragement of 
secessionist movements and proxy aggression by Rwanda and Uganda. This was an act 
of tremendous self-sacrifice on the part of Zimbabwe in support of a just 
anti-imperialist cause. Financially there was no way Zimbabwe could afford to do 
it. Morally there was no way she could afford not to. The cost of military 
intervention was tremendous, and could only be to some extent at the expense of 
ordinary Zimbabweans. Imperialism saw an opportunity to create a rift between 
ZANU and the Zimbabwean people and lost no time trying to exploit it by mounting 
a scurrilous media blitz to demonise Robert Mugabe. 

Typical of this media blitz, which has been going on for two or three years 
now, as if endless repetition could turn lies into truth, is The Guardian, the 
oh so liberal Guardian, of 25 June 2003 uncritically reviewing the South 
African press, and citing such gems as "Thabo Mbeki knows very well that Mr Mugabe 
is an unscrupulous dictator" and referring to Mugabe's government as "a rogue 
government". 

Yet we know that Robert Mugabe's only sin is in consistently standing up to 
imperialism in the interests of his people. This is the reason why when, as a 
result of the successes of the liberation war of the Zimbabwean people, the 
second Chimurenga, as it was called, imperialism decided it would be 
counter-productive to continue supporting white minority rule in Rhodesia, it 
struggled in 
a determined manner to prevent Mugabe from coming to power. "One of the few 
points of agreement between white Rhodesians and the British government was 
that victory for Mugabe was a terrifying prospect. In the words of Lord 
Carrington: 'I viewed it with the greatest possible horror. One felt he was a Marxist 
and one wondered how awful he was going to be'.[6] Another tactic was to 
proclaim that ZANU intended to abolish Christmas! The details of the serious 
struggle to keep Mugabe out were documented at the time by a ZANU support 
organisation in London called the Zimbabwe Solidarity Front, and relevant articles 
from 
its journal will later this year be published in book form by Lalkar 
Publications. Suffice it to say at this stage, that every effort was made to sideline 
ZANU by forcing it, for instance, into alliance with 'moderates' in an effort to 
palm off on the people of Zimbabwe a government that could be guaranteed to 
put the interests of imperialism above the interests of the people. Then more 
'flexible' black leaders - Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Reverend Ndabaningi 
Sithole - were taken on board by the settler government into a government of 
'national unity', in the hope that this would satisfy the masses and undermine the 
liberation war. All that happened, however, was that these reverend gentlemen 
lost what little support they had left. Elections were held, and these were 
won by an overwhelming majority by the ZANU-PF party, which had taken 57 seats. 
ZAPU, the other party that supported the armed liberation struggle, took 20 
seats, ie., all but one of the seats in the Ndebele heartlands of Matabeleland, 
while "Muzorewa was reduced to the holder of three seats. All the South 
African money that had clandestinely helped to finance his campaign came to nothing 
in the face of a genuine desire for change".[7] Nothing imperialism or the 
South African white supremacists could do could prevent the anti-imperialist 
Mugabe from taking power from Independence. 

Civil war 

Neither imperialism nor white supremacist South Africa reconciled themselves 
to defeat, and they immediately set about, in their different ways, trying to 
destabilise the Zimbabwean government. Obviously reactionaries exploit every 
weakness they can to try and cause difficulties to their enemies. The obvious 
fault line in Zimbabwe was the traditional tribal rivalries between the 
majority Shona tribe (70% of the population) and the minority Ndebele tribe (16% of 
the population). The Ndebele were many years ago the rulers of Zimbabwe, and 
some cherished dreams of becoming so again. Allegedly the ZAPU leader, Joshua 
Nkomo, was at least to some extent affected by this culture: 

"The two large provinces that constitute the west of Zimbabwe are 
Matabeleland North and Matabeleland South. The majority population there are Ndebele, 
of 
Zulu ancestry. … Near the provincial capital, Bulawayo, … lie the Matopos 
Hills, an area of great spiritual significance and sweeping beauty. Here, there 
are natural columns of great boulders sitting on top of one another … 
Lobengula, the last great king of the Ndebele, was deceived and defeated by Rhodes, 
despite his ambassadors being kindly received by Queen Victoria. Once a 
generation, a female shaman is meant to appear at Matopos to anoint the spiritual heir 
of Lobengula, the one who would restore his reign and extend it over all 
Zimbabwe. Every year Nkomo would go to the great rock columns, hoping to be greeted 
by the shaman - who never came to him." [8] 

These are just the kind of chauvinistic dregs that reactionaries love to 
exploit to cause their enemies to fight each other, and in the early days of ZANU 
rule in Zimbabwe, it was by incitement of the Ndebele to rebellion that South 
Africa, itself still a white supremacist state at that time, was hoping to be 
able to teach a salutary racist lesson to its own black majority population, 
i.e., that black majority rule is a recipe for disaster. 

Following the victory of the liberation struggle, ZANU, ever with an eye to 
maintaining the unity of the Zimbabwean people as they fought to better life 
for themselves in the teeth of opposition from imperialism and white supremacist 
South Africa, offered Nkomo the post of president of Zimbabwe. He, however, 
turned that down. He wanted nothing less than to be, so to speak, "king", 
although his own forces were not only smaller but had also contributed far less 
overall to the liberation struggle. He refused to be "a china ornament sitting in 
the showcase". Instead he became Home Affairs Minister, responsible for law 
and order. His sense of grievance meant that within a year of Zimbabwe's 
independence, disgruntled ZAPU members were working to plunge the country into civil 
war, and in November 1980 fighting in fact broke out between former guerrilla 
fighters from the two organisations. Clearly this was not a situation that 
could be tolerated. Having failed to maintain law and order, Nkomo was in 
January 1981 demoted to the position of Minister without portfolio. In February 
1981, there were further confrontations between the ex-guerrillas from both 
parties in Entumbane, in which 300 people were killed. After a security forces raid 
on four farms occupied by former Zipra (i.e., ZAPU guerrilla army) fighters, 
where "Enough rifles, machine guns, mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and 
cases of ammunition to fill 50 railway carriages were found" [9], Nkomo was 
finally sacked from the government in February 1982, as were all of his ZAPU allies. 

South African involvement 

In the meantime, white supremacist South Africa was also intervening in 
several ways. In July 1982, South Africa took it upon itself to destroy Zimbabwe's 
airforce in an act of cowardly banditry that Chan calls "a superbly planned 
and executed commando raid"! Chan continues: "At the end of 1982, South Africa 
began organising, training and recruiting a several-hundred-strong dissident 
group, comprised mostly of former ZIPRA fighters. These called themselves 
Super-ZAPU, believing their political leaders in ZAPU proper could not longer help 
their people" (p. 29). 

Is it any wonder, then, that Mugabe and his government took swift and 
decisive action to put an end to this rebellion. When you have reached power through 
the waging of guerrilla warfare, you do not pussyfoot around in the face of 
organised movements designed to deprive you of your gains. The rebellion was 
crushed, much to the chagrin of white supremacist South Africa which was left 
trying to muster what support for its nefarious cause that it could by denouncing 
the 'atrocities' and 'brutality' of the military campaign through which the 
rebellion was defeated. This kind of thing impresses bourgeois liberal 
ideologues such as David Blair and Stephen Chan, but does not cut much ice with those 
who have been subjected to imperialism's real brutality. 

What, however, has always characterised Mugabe is his willingness to embrace 
those he has defeated and welcome them into the fold, on the strict 
understanding, of course, that henceforth their destructive behaviour will cease. The 
same conciliatory attitude that had been shown towards whites who had formerly 
been enthusiastically committed to white supremacy was extended to Ndebele 
dissidents, and in particular to Joshua Nkomo. Agreement was reached in 1987 that 
ZANU and ZAPU should merge, and that Joshua Nkomo should become the country's 
joint vice president, thus putting an end to South Africa's attempts to use 
the Ndebele to destabilise Zimbabwe. 

The Matabeleland rebellion was inspired primarily by white supremacist South 
Africa, whose interests at that time were to some extent in contradiction with 
those of imperialism which, as its acceptance of black majority rule in 
Zimbabwe shows, was happy to accept black majority rule in the larger interests of 
hoping better to promote imperialist exploitation. The liberation struggle of 
the Zimbabwean people against white settler fascism was not in the interests 
of imperialism, so it had decided - albeit with bad grace - to accept black 
majority rule. Not so South Africa. Nevertheless, imperialism was never, as we 
have seen, comfortable with ZANU because of the latter's commitment to the 
welfare of the masses of ordinary people, a project which in the view of 
imperialism could only make Zimbabwe an unattractive proposition as far as imperialist 
investment was concerned as the profits to be extracted would be seriously 
reduced by such wanton and, in their view, unnecessary expenditure. Although the 
imperialist media at the time did not go into overdrive in support of South 
Africa's efforts to destabilise the ZANU regime, nor did they get particularly 
hysterical about the means used to suppress rebellion - unlike the situation 
today - nevertheless they were happy that the Zimbabwe government was being 
forced to spend a great deal of money and effort dealing with the problems that 
South Africa had engendered. This was forcing Zimbabwe to apply to imperialism 
for loans, which imperialism intended to use as leverage against Zimbabwe to 
bend it to imperialism's will. 

Economic reconstruction 

>From the very start, ZANU set about fulfilling its promises to the Zimbabwean 
people. On 12 August 2002, at the funeral of Dr Bernard Chidzero, Robert 
Mugabe referred in his funeral oration to the magnitude of the task facing the 
ZANU government at liberation: 

"Here was a war ravaged country in very great need but little resources; a 
people with severe scars of war holding on to a tenuous peace and of course to 
great expectations and dreams that were not commensurate with available means 
and prospects of them. We had fighters who needed to be either integrated or 
demobilized; refugees and war displaced who needed rehabilitation and 
resettlement; school children who needed schools, books and teachers; workers who 
expected the wand of independence magically to yield fabulous wages and salaries; 
peasants who needed not just durable peace but their forefathers' lands and 
traditional systems restored. Roads, schools, homes, clinics and hospitals needed 
rehabilitation, reconstruction and expansion. Then, of course, we also had Ian 
Smith's war-related debts to service … We also had apartheid South Africa, 
all the time threatening us, sabotaging our independence and thus forcing us to 
build on defence capabilities". 

In order to meet these needs, as well as to defend its government against 
destabilisation efforts and defend its export routes against the RENAMO 
guerrillas that South Africa was backing in Mozambique, ZANU decided to borrow from 
the 
World Bank and IMF - not a huge amount, but nevertheless a debt that would 
have to be repaid. Because it needed to borrow, it also needed to satisfy the 
lenders of its ability to repay, and this is probably another reason why ZANU 
did not proceed more speedily with the expropriation of the white farmers, 
feeling that it needed to consolidate its base before taking on the wrath of 
imperialism. For the white farmers were producing export crops, particularly 
tobacco, at competitive prices through use of modern technology (as well as cheap 
labour), and to expropriate them at this juncture would have definitely involved 
the loss of significant export earnings and inability to pay the debts 
incurred to international finance capital. If the total annual value of Zimbabwean 
exports is $2.4 billion (1996 estimate), agricultural products account for about 
$1 billion - tobacco alone for about $800 million. These are clearly sums 
which can only be sacrificed at a price, and at a time when the masses are ready 
for that price to be paid. To decide that, despite the well-known dire 
economic consequences of borrowing from imperialism, nonetheless for the moment such 
borrowing was a more viable option than steaming ahead with land expropriation 
was a very tough decision to make. It is not for nothing that in paying 
tribute to Dr Chidzero, who was responsible for such decisions, Robert Mugabe 
commented: "It was quite an intimidating Independence menu and one that would not 
encourage anyone to want to be my Finance Minister". Yet "Bernard came and took 
on the challenge …" 

In all events, the money borrowed was used to good effect. As Angie Todd 
writes in the Cuban English language publication, Granma International in October 
2002, "In the first 10 years of independence education absorbed 10-22 per cent 
of the national budget. Primary education became free and compulsory, and 
schools and hospitals were built in the rural areas. "From 1978 to 1989 infant 
mortality dropped from 130 per 1,000 births to 65 …" 

Devastation by SAPs 

But then came payback time. Imperialism demanded implementation of a 
programme of structural adjustment that spelt "liberalisation of trade and capital 
flows, the abolition of food subsidies and cutbacks in the health and education 
sectors. The result: inflationary pressure due to increased import prices, 
businesses closing due to an inability to compete on the international market, the 
export of capital funds and increased prices on all staple foods. "In five 
years the IMF destroyed 40 per cent of industrial output. … Zimbabwe was forced 
to sell its maize reserves for IMF-ordered profits …" (ibid.). Unemployment 
increased from 45% to 60% and inflation from 100% to 300%. The sale of maize 
reserves obviously left the country open to famine in years when the crops fail, 
which in Zimbabwe periodically they do, and they did in 2001, as a result of a 
drought that engulfed the whole of southern Africa. All this the imperialist 
press has the gall to attribute to Mugabe's 'economic mismanagement', when 
clearly it is the effect of implementing imperialism's own demands. Every country 
which implements the IMF's structural adjustment programmes is likewise 
bankrupted - the only difference being that not all countries make efforts to 
maintain welfare provision for the masses. George Monbiot points out: 

"Throughout the coverage of Zimbabwe there is an undercurrent both of racism 
and of regret that Britain ever let Rhodesia go… Readers are led to conclude 
that Ian Smith was right all along: the only people who know how to run Africa 
are the whites. But, through the IMF, the World Bank and bilateral aid 
programmes, with their extraordinary conditions, the whites do run Africa, and a 
right hash they are making of it. Over the past ten years, according to the UN's 
latest human development report, the number of people in sub-Saharan Africa 
living on less than a dollar a day has risen from 242 to 300 million. The more 
rigorously Africa's governments apply the policies demanded by the whites, the 
poorer their people become." 

Show down time 

To add injury to insult, imperialism has, of course, gleefully been taking 
advantage of the discontent aroused by application of its structural adjustment 
programmes to endeavour to put together a pro-imperialist opposition in 
Zimbabwe - hence the so-called Movement for Democratic Freedom, praised to the skies 
of course by every 'left-wing' social-democratic toadie of imperialism in 
this country, despite the fact that its programme is one of absolute surrender to 
imperialism. If the people of Zimbabwe have legitimate grievances, they would 
certainly never be addressed by a government formed by the Movement for 
Democratic Change! Nevertheless, imperialism poured vast amounts of cash and 
Trotskyites into endeavouring to build this Movement for Democratic Freedom into a 
force that could defeat ZANU at the polls - but all to little effect. By 
mobilising the discontent of a significant minority, the Movement for Democratic 
Change (MDC) certainly creates nuisance value, but recent events have shown that 
the Zimbabwean people are not so naïve as to support it in large enough 
numbers to topple the Zimbabwean regime. Not only did it lose the 2002 elections in 
Zimbabwe (a loss attributed by the imperialist press to violence and 
poll-rigging on the part of the government - undemocratically interfering with the 
imperialist cheque-book ballot rigging), but it has been ineffective in mobilising 
the masses to overthrow the "unrepresentative" ZANU government, which is the 
least its imperialist masters expected of it. Imperialism was very 
disappointed by the MDC's failure at the beginning of June to achieve its declared aim 
in 
a "week of protest billed as a 'final push' to unseat President Robert 
Mugabe" (Financial Times, 7 June 2003). The week of protest merely showed that the 
MDC had very little support and "a national day of marches planned for 
yesterday [6 June] fizzled out …" (ibid.). Although imperialism naturally tried to 
blame this on ZANU's 'brutal suppression of dissent', Jono Waters in South 
Africa's Business Week of 20 June 2003 wryly pointed out "the point that keeps 
getting missed is that most of Zimbabwe's cowed and subjugated population appear to 
feel the MDC is not worth being beaten up for, let alone dying for." The 
point, we might add, that Jono Waters misses is that the greater part of 
Zimbabweans are not at all "cowed and subjugated" - it is only the would-be comprador 
class that feels this way, and those who are "cowing and subjugating" them are 
the majority of the population who continue to support ZANU and would be 
ashamed to do otherwise, especially when the going is tough. In fact, Jono Waters 
is forced, in the same article from which we quoted above, to admit that 
"people do not see an opposition leadership that struggles and thinks and feels with 
them. They see a bunch of greedy, US-dollar salaried, Pajero drivers", or 
what might be called in Kenya members of the 'Wa Benzi' tribe, i.e., those who 
flaunt their comprador status by driving around in Mercedes Benzes supplied to 
them for their services to imperialism. 

Since it is now clear to all that there is little or nothing to be gained for 
Zimbabwe in co-operating with imperialism and being in a financial position 
dutifully to pay up on one's indebtedness to imperialism, since in any event 
there are no more loans forthcoming from imperialism, which has subjected 
Zimbabwe to sanctions in its efforts to overthrow the ZANU nationalist government, 
then there is nothing to inhibit ZANU from going ahead with land 
expropriations. In fact, to do so is an essential first step in securing sufficient 
independent food supplies for the people of Zimbabwe during the years of showdown with 
imperialism that lie ahead. Imperialism, for its part, will try to use trade 
embargoes and other destabilising tactics - maybe even the kind of bombing 
campaign combined with electoral fraud that finished off Yugoslavia's attempts to 
preserve its independence - to persuade the Zimbabweans to surrender. In the 
fight against imperialism, the people of Zimbabwe have to be prepared for hard 
times ahead. 

Understanding this, Robert Mugabe appealed to them at Bernard Chidzero's 
funeral: 

"Today we lay Bernard to rest among men and women of his ilk, those men and 
women who dedicated and lost their precious lives in the service of our Nation 
and our people … 

"Bernard and all who lie buried here worked for the people, sacrificed for 
their well-being and that of our children. Today, in the eerie silence of this 
sacred acre, they ask you and me many questions. What have you done for your 
country in your little sphere of activity? What are you doing with your life for 
your Nation, for your People, for our Children? Or are you negating the very 
illustrious essence of those proud and venerated men and women of honour we 
gather yearly to acknowledge? 

"If Joshua Nkomo were to rise this hour, would you be fit to hold his hand 
and walk in step with him down the path that emanates from this very sacred 
shrine and ends in a great future for our country? If Leopold Takwira, Chairman 
Herbert Chitepo, General Josiah Magama Tongogara, Jason Moyo, Nikita Mangena 
were here with us today, would you embrace them and greet them in comradeship; 
would you be found among the trusted cadres they would have proudly inspected … 

"What is your cause today? Does it derive from and connect with the lofty 
ideals of these men and women we honour today? Or are you, through your actions 
today, a willing traitor and second executioner of these heroes; willing 
posthumous betrayer of their cause, indeed the eager butcher of our revolution, our 
heritage and the future of our children? … 

"Each grave here speaks to our Nation through the undying, immanent spirit of 
the heroic men or women whose transient remains it keeps. Each one of these 
lives will tell you a tale of fortitude; will chastise you when your courage 
and endurance weakens, reminding you that there is not a life too precious to be 
laid for this Nation; no battle too hard to be fought for this land, indeed 
no enemy too big, too powerful, too awesome to be fought and vanquished for 
this land. Each one of these lives will remind you with the harshest of language 
that there is no price big enough to fetch this Nation; no gold, no silver, 
precious enough, to buy its sovereignty. We are not for sale." 

He added: "Those who lie here struggled and died for a cause and that cause 
is fundamentally the land which must come back; which is coming back and, for 
the peasant, which has come back in significant quantities." 



NOTES: 

1. We are never told this, but all white farmers are being allowed to keep at 
least one good sized farm. What has been confiscated is their second, third, 
fourth, fifth, etc. farms. 

2. Robert Mugabe - a life of power and violence, I B Tauris & Co Ltd, London, 
2003. Stephen Chan was a member of the Common wealth Secretariat at the time 
of Zimbabwe's independence. As Professor of International Relations at London 
University's School of Oriental and African Studies, he is, of course, hostile 
to Robert Mugabe, but is nevertheless surprisingly informative about the 
imperialist-inspired sabotage of ZANU's efforts to build a society delivering 
social justice to Zimbabwe's population, including its 11 million black people who 
had before Liberation counted for nothing in the white supremacist regime 
that governed the country on behalf of imperialism. 

3. Continuum, London, 2003, another anti-Mugabe book. 

4. Op. cit. p.112 

5. The quotation from Mugabe was excerpted in Michael Charlton, The Last 
Colony in Africa: Diplomacy and the Independence of Rhodesia, Blackwell, Oxford, 
1990, p.152. 

6. David Blair, op. cit., p.11 

7. Chan, ibid., p. 17 

8. Chan, op. cit., p.25. 

9. Blair, op. cit. p. 30.

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