In a message dated 2/17/00 11:24:17 AM Central Standard Time,
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<< One important contributing
 factor to this lack of success is, I beleive,the noble gentry sitting in
 the House of Lords and members of the Commons who are not only holding on
 to their titles but to their title deeds to Zimbawean land. Mugabe
 underestimated the political power exercised by these absentee landlords.
 sidi sanneh >>
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Sidi,

i guess the big question is how anyserious plan to re-settle land in Zimbabwe
can over-look or underestimate the effect that land in the hands of these
"absentee landlords" can have.

Jabou

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