At the 1950 general election he won the redistributed seat with a 133 majority.
In 2009 the World Bank calculated that the Department of Agrarian Reform's overheads, including the cost of legal disputes, amounted to about 38 pesos for every 100 pesos worth of redistributed land.
If the land is instead distributed to individuals, he fears they will just sell it back to the company.The law prevents the sale of redistributed land for ten years.
They will also seek to strengthen democratic institutions.Where such institutions are weak, and especially where there are oil and gas revenues which can be redistributed, populist leaders such as Mr Chávez have emerged.
Only a small area of land has changed hands since the advent of democracy in 1994, and 90% of redistributed farms are not productive, by the government's own account.
In fact, says version two, his government has implemented any number of traditional Labour policies (a windfall tax on privatised utilities, a minimum wage, successive budgets that have redistributed wealth), but has been too subdued in bragging about them lest they disturb the deep sleep of Middle England.
Mr Mugabe could use any kind of external sanction as an excuse to declare a state of emergency and cancel next year's presidential election, which he knows he cannot win without cheating even more than usual.Funds dried up when it became apparent that much of the land was redistributed to wealthy cabinet ministers and generalsTalk in Abuja focussed on land redistribution.
But we cannot ignore the context in which these powers are being redistributed.
Since people started reconnecting with the land and each other, more than 18m kilograms of jettisoned produce are being rescued and redistributed locally each season.
Mike Beavis Belper, Derbyshire Lottery funding for the arts is at last to be redistributed more fairly across England (Lottery arts funding to be increased outside London, 28 May).
After 1945 a crucial land reform redistributed land from large landlords to tenants, with an average plot size of around 3 hectares.
