Posted AT 10:44 PM EDT on 28/03/08
The decline of Mugabe's empire
1992: President Robert Mugabe announces plan to redistribute land owned by white farmers to blacks. Self-styled war veterans, many of them too young to have fought in the country's struggle for independence, occupy many other farms, often with violence.
2000: Mr. Mugabe signs into law the constitutional amendment that allows government to seize white-owned land without paying compensation.
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