Liz McGregor analyses crucial differences which mean the current land dispute in Zimbabwe is unlikely to be replicated in its southern neighbour.
More than 100 years since Zimbabwe was seized, white landowners face a bit of stick.
The squatters on Zimbabwe's tobacco farms show the country's big gulf is between Mugabe's supporters and the rest.
Briefing document in 7 chapters, March 2002.
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.
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.
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