Zimbabwe: Land and Starvation

Abstract

Eleven years ago, in 1992, Zimbabwe was in the grip of famine. Its President Robert Mugabe was in the depths of despair, having just lost his wife Sally. Yet, in that year, he opened ministerial dialogue with South Africa, played a key role in bringing peace to Mozambique, and turned the famine into a political triumph by his distribution of relief food. Now, with rows over the Cricket World Cup or visits to Paris and Lisbon, any political triumph that might come his way seems muted and extracted by the grinding down of opposition