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After the independence of Zimbabwe from Britain in 1980, the mounting grievances over failures of the market-based land reforms together with the social crises generated by structural adjustment policies by the mid-1990s (Moyo 2000) ruptured into the Fast Track Land Resettlement Programme (FTLRP) in May 2000.
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Magwaro-Ndiweni, L., Madiro, V. (2016). The Plight of Peri-urban Communities—A Case Study of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. In: Peri-Urban Developments and Processes in Africa with Special Reference to Zimbabwe. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34231-3_10
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