She has been slow to address such basic questions as land redistribution, or to check the spread of corruption.

Basically a struggle over land redistribution, it took a tremendous toll in lives.

The population pressure and the sharp contradiction of the land redistribution drove a few residents to leave.

The government lacked the will, the administrative capacity and the cash to make land redistribution a reality.

Government officials acknowledge the failures on land redistribution but say there is little they can do.

Others were taken over during the land redistribution of 1980 and now employ fewer peasants.

But the political costs of far-reaching land redistribution would be high.

Nine years later, land redistribution is, as it was then, under attack by both extremes.

By the 1820s, only a couple settlements practiced the yearly land redistribution.

Zimbabwe has never attempted such a large land redistribution before.