ZANU-PF reclassified seized farms to shift black beneficiaries onto poorer A1 land

Evidence

The ZANU-PF regime that had no problem unleashing the police force on black people who settled themselves on white-owned lands in the 1980s instructed the same police force to pay no attention to black occupation of whiteowned farms. White farmers found themselves exposed, while the war veterans and peasants who pushed them off “their” lands had to contend with recategorization of land into “A1” and “A2” compartments to “facilitate the[ir] … removal from rich, arable land onto less agriculturally suitable ‘A1 farms’” (Mhanda, 2011, p. 228). — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 31

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relates to my reading of the threatened-dominant settler grievance circuit: the regime that once policed black squatting on white land overnight stopped doing so — a precise hinge where state protection was withdrawn from the settler group.
• XREF: connects to: Both Rhodesian settler novels and ZANU-PF patriotic history erase fluid identities — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 44

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