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The Trajectories of Land Reforms in Southern Africa’s Former Settler Colonies

Land remains one of the most hotly contested resources in former settler colonies. This is, in part, a legacy of settler colonialism, which facilitated the large-scale expropriation of indigenous lands by the colonists and, in part, of the many meanings that individuals and communities attach to the land. The reality of African land dispossession especially in southern Africa’s three former settler colonies of Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia, heightened expectations of some form of post-independence land reform. Over the years, scholars have produced a large corpus of literature on various aspects of the land reform in these three countries. In the years leading to Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) at the turn of the millennium, this literature examined early efforts at land reform in all three countries. The literature rapidly expanded when Zimbabwe’s postcolonial rulers embarked on their fast-track land reform exercise at the turn of