Skip to main content
Menu
♥ Donate
eventREF E-0097084Revised

Event record

Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized by homeless people and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign in Zimbabwe

Updated
30 Sep 2019
Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized by homeless people and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe war veterans seized thousands of white-owned farms in 2000 Image source

In February 2000, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe spearheaded the Fast-Track Resettlement Program. The campaign meant that White owned farms would be acquired by the government by forcing the owners and sometimes their workers off the land. The militant and sometimes violent forced removals were carried out by pro-Mugabe war veterans. The Fast-Track Resettlement Program has remained controversial and has had dire economical consequences for Zimbabwe. There have also been claims that the programme has only benefited Zimbabwe's elite rather than ordinary citizens.

Search events by date

What happened on your birthday?
View more events from this day

How we know this

  1. 01Human Rights Watch, "Land Reform in the Twenty Years After Independence",From: Human Rights Watch, [online] Available at: www.hrw.org [Accessed on 11 February 2014]
  2. 02Lewis J. (31 July 2013), " South Africa: Don't Be Fooled - Zimbabwe's Land Reform Is No Success",From: All Africa, [online] Available at: allafrica.com [Accessed on 11 February 2014]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2014, February 20). Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized by homeless people and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign in Zimbabwe. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0097084

South African History Online (2014) 'Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized by homeless people and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign in Zimbabwe', South African History Online, 20 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0097084 (Accessed: 5 August 2026).

South African History Online, Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized by homeless people and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign in Zimbabwe [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0097084, (accessed 5 August 2026).

"Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized by homeless people and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign in Zimbabwe." South African History Online, 20 Feb. 2014, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0097084. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized by homeless people and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign in Zimbabwe." South African History Online. February 20, 2014. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0097084.

Further reading

Mooivallei, Dairy Farm Place

Mooivallei, Dairy Farm

Mooivallei, meaning “beautiful valley”, is named after the picturesque town of Bonnievale – a place synonymous...
Popular Content

SAHO is free because readers fund it. Donate →

Contribute to this record0 comments

Comments are reader contributions. They are not part of the archival record.