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While interest in land appropriation in Zimbabwe has produced a significant amount of literature
in recent decades, much of this research has not been located within an explicatory schema that
explores the relationship between physical space and political order in Zimbabwe’s land reform
programme for purposes of political control and power retention. The attempt by Mugabe to
appropriate different arguments to justify his veterans-led land redistribution programme has
been interpreted differently in the existing scholarship on Zimbabwe’s land reform programme.
Mugabe’s speech quoted in the title of this article opened for us a new lacuna to explore in the
ongoing debate on Mugabe’s motives for land reform. In this respect, we need to examine the
politics of space in Zimbabwe’s land reform programme, which saw the expropriation of white-owned commercial farms by veterans of Zimbabwe’s war of liberation, discussing the various
strategies and subtle arguments appropriated by Mugabe to reconfigure the structures of power.
While a common concern for the landless poor was no doubt Mugabe’s campaigning philosophy,
we explore the possibility of arguing that land reform was driven by political imperatives
masquerading as such concern.
Key words: Third Chimurenga, physical space, political order, land redistribution

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While interest in land appropriation in Zimbabwe has produced a significant amount of literature in recent decades, much of this research has not been located within an explicatory schema that explores the relationship between physical space and political order in Zimbabwe’s land reform programme for purposes of political control and power retention. The attempt by Mugabe to appropriate different arguments to justify his veterans-led land redistribution programme has been interpreted differently in the existing scholarship on Zimbabwe’s land reform programme. Mugabe’s speech quoted in the title of this article opened for us a new lacuna to explore in the ongoing debate on Mugabe’s motives for land reform. In this respect, we need to examine the politics of space in Zimbabwe’s land reform programme, which saw the expropriation of white-owned commercial farms by veterans of Zimbabwe’s war of liberation, discussing the various strategies and subtle arguments appropriated by Mugabe to r...

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IntroductionPresident Robert Mugabe's famous speech at the Earth Summit in South Africa in 2002, in which he targeted the then British prime minister, Tony Blair, opened up a new dimension in the land redistribution debate of Zimbabwe's 2000-2008 years of crisis. The speech revealed what can be argued in Mugabe's scheme of things when he conceived the idea of instituting a land reform. Mugabe's words against Tony Blair presuppose that there was an existing relationship between the physical space of the people resettled by Mugabe, especially veterans of Zimbabwe's war of liberation, and Mugabe's political order. While a common concern for the landless poor was no doubt part of the ideological foundations of Zimbabwe soon after attaining independence, we argue in this article that the redistribution of land and farm invasions (termed the "Third Chimurenga" (Uprising) in official and popular discourses) were concerned with transforming the lands acquir...

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- Sociology, Politics, Pan African Studies, Propaganda by public libraries in Romania