AIA's Southern Africa Chronicle - Volume VIII No.3

Title: AIA's Southern Africa Chronicle - Volume VIII No.3
Creator: Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
Subject: AIA
Date: 1995
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169401
Identifier: vital:41746
Description: Machipanda, February 3,1995 (AIA/Brian Latham)—Many Zimbabwean peasants have quietly found the solution to land shortages by crossing into neighbouring Mozambique where it is plentiful. For as little as US$ 10 a field, they are acquiring land and a place to live — probably illegally — from chiefs and headmen across the border. Information on how to get land is easily accessible in Machipanda, the Mozambique border town at the head of the Beira Corridor from Zimbabwe to the Indian Ocean. Confusion reigns in Mozambique in the aftermath of the devastating civil war. And in a country reputed to be the poorest on earth, the government can do little to control the flood of border jumpers in both directions: Mozambicans enter Zimbabwe to sell everything from guns to clothes donated by aid agencies and Zimbabweans enter Mozambique in search of land to till.
Format: 7 pages, pdf
Publisher: Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
Language: English
Rights: Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
Rights: No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher

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