The skewed distribution of land ownership patterns still remains a contested terrain in countries, such as South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia, where land dispossession has had enormous effects. The land question, in these countries, arose mainly because of inequalities in the control of resources. Land dispossessions had an extremely negative impact on the socio-economic transformation of many African countries. Dispossession and the forced removal of natives under colonialism and apartheid resulted not only in the physical dichotomy of people along racial lines, but also extreme land shortages and insecurity of tenure for much of the indigenous population. The colonial process in Zimbabwe began in 1889 when the British South African Company, led by Cecil John Rhodes, received a royal charter of incorporation from Britain. Zimbabwe was colonised for 90 years and, as a result, millions of black farmers lost their land. South Africa, o