Reply #76: Actually, his land reform has gone way smoother than one should [View All]

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reasonably expect. They gave the farmers 20 years to prepare. They paid for the land, except for the final round of people who resisted (which is logical -- you don't want to reward that behavior).

And the legal procedure they used wasn't so far removed from an eviction proceeding we'd use in the US or UK.

I once tried to track down every verifiable death from the land transfer, and could only find 16. Half of them came in a single event when when very well armed farmers went out and got into a shoot-out with some black Zimbabweans.

Considering how many people died when the land was last 'transferred', that's pretty remarkable.

One thing about colonialism is that it was so disruptive to get into it, it's crazy to think you can get out of it without ruffling feathers.