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• BBC News | Is Mugabe's Strategy Working?

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/711754.stm
  Joseph Winter in Harare looks at the issue of land reform in Zimbabwe and whether President Robert Mugabe's policy is working.

• 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.

• BBC News | Mugabe's Anniversary Speech

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/monitoring/media_reports/717964.stm
  President Mugabe said his government is determined to settle the issue of land reform in Zimbabwe "once and for all".

• BBC News | Points of View: Occupying Farms

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/667815.stm
  A war veteran and a farmer put their cases over the occupation of Zimbabwe's white-owned commercial farms.

• BBC News | Who Owns the Land?

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/594522.stm
  Land reform is one of the key issues behind Zimbabwe's current unrest and has its roots deep in colonial history.

• Guardian Unlimited | Century's Fight to Recover Land

  http://www.theguardian.com/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.

• Guardian Unlimited | Could South Africa be Next?

  http://www.theguardian.com/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.

• Guardian Unlimited | Farming Today

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/08/zimbabwe.comment
  More than 100 years since Zimbabwe was seized, white landowners face a bit of stick.

• Guardian Unlimited | On the Front Line in Land War

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/09/zimbabwe.andrewmeldrum
  The squatters on Zimbabwe's tobacco farms show the country's big gulf is between Mugabe's supporters and the rest.

• Guardian Unlimited | Slow Death of Black Farmer's Dream

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/22/zimbabwe
  A slow death for the resettlement dream.

• Human Rights Watch - Fast Track Land Reform In Zimbabwe

  http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/zimbabwe/
  Briefing document in 7 chapters, March 2002.

• Land Battle Sets Black against White

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/12/98/zimbabwe/223290.stm
  Redistribution of land in Zimbabwe has been on the cards for nearly two decades, but some white landowners believe the government is exploiting it for political reasons.

• News Unlimited | Black Peasants have Waited for 110 years, says White Minister

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/12/zimbabwe.andrewmeldrum
  It is simplistic to say that Zimbabwe's land crisis has divided the country completely along racial lines. Dr Timothy Stamps is white, Welsh, and the Minister of Health.

• Salon News | Land War in Zimbabwe

  http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/01/zimbabwe/
  Angry and impoverished blacks say they are taking back the farms whites stole in the first place. But are they fighting the wrong enemy?

• The Seattle Times: Zimbabwe Farm Battles Go Deeper than Politics

  http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000510&slug=4020045
  Brief article on the history of Zimbabwe and on land disputes among native Ndebele tribes in the region.

• Who Owns the Land?

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/africa/2000/zimbabwe_crisis/slideshow/default.stm
  BBC presentation on the background of the land struggle.

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