Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the casual criminals. This one, the Greek

Bastard Murders, written by Emma. Thank you, Emma. Uh, formal in the show, if you're brand new,

here. Hello, Emma's written something for me. This episode, in fact, I've never read it before.

We're going to explore it together, dear audience. That's the format of the show, and let us jump in.

In December 1979, going back in the day, aren't we?

Representatives from the United Kingdom, the country known as Zimbabwe-Rodizia and the Zanu PF met at Lancaster House in London and signed the Lancaster Agreement. On the 21st December

1979, the Rhodesian Bush War officially ended in the next year Robert Mugabe and would

become the first black president of Zimbabwe. One of the goals of Mugabe's regime was to give

poor Black Zimbabweans access to land since the white majority owned 51% of agricultural land

in Zimbabwe.

This meant that the ruling Zanupf party had to convince the white owners of that land

to sell their farms so that black families could take back ownership of their ancestral

lands and support themselves once more without having to depend on the white man's kindness.

This led to a third of Zimbabwe's white farmers leaving the country and settling in other

countries instead.

But the rest refused to sell, and in 1997 Zimbabwe implemented their fast-track land reform

program.

This gave the Zimbabwean government the power to forcefully confiscate white-owned farms,

leading to the infamous land grabs, which saw black communities forcefully occupying white-owned farms, leading to the infamous land grabs, which saw black communities

forcefully occupying white-owned farms.

This turned, once prosperous farms, into graveyards, caused widespread famine, and in the next

decade, several factors would result in Zimbabwe becoming an economic wasteland.

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