1.   The desire to recover it drove many black peasants to support the nationalist guerrillas in the war against white minority rule.

2.   The men dress in black peasant work clothes, the women in modest kerchiefs and aprons.

3.   Britain, the former colonial power, has refused to help the government pay compensation to farmers whose properties are handed over to landless black peasants.

4.   During a three-day state visit to Germany, Mugabe accused Britain of trying stall the program to hand over white-owned farms to landless black peasants.

5.   Earlier this year, Mugabe vowed the government would seize white owned farms without paying compensation to speed up the allocation of plots to landless black peasants.

6.   During his successful reelection campaign last month, Mugabe vowed the government would push ahead with a controversial program to seize white-owned farms for landless black peasants.

7.   He criticized whites, less than one percent of the population, for resisting a program to seize white-owned farms for handover to landless black peasants.

8.   He singled out McDonald as being among foreigners who failed to understand the need to hand over farms to landless black peasants.

9.   It gave farmers a month to lodge appeals and said the government would only pay for buildings and improvements on farmland seized originally from black peasants by white settlers.

10.   It said it would only pay for buildings and improvements on the land, which it said was taken originally from black peasants by white settlers.