The land issue in Zimbabwe Updated February 2002 See also UNITED
NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME 2002, Zimbabwe: Land reform and
resettlement [PDF document] and Farm occupations and the
breakdown in the Rule of Law. Is the redistribution of land in
Zimbabwe "correcting the colonial imbalance in the distribution
and ownership of the country's land resource", as the incumbent
President Robert Mugabe claimed in his address at Manyoni Farm?
Or is it an attempt by the ZANU PF government to drum up support
by using the century old land issue. There is a juxtaposition
between the poverty stricken, overpopulated and overgrazed areas
of the Kadenge and Khumalo Communal Lands and the extensive
pastures and arable land of Farms such as Mt. Pleasant and
Manyoni Farm that cannot be ignored. Zimbabwe has a total land
area of about 39 million hectares of which 33.3 million hectares
are suitable for agricultural purposes and the remaining 6
million hectares have been reserved for National parks as well
as Wildlife and Urban se