Land+Apportionment+Act

The Land Apportionment Act was an act that was made as an effort to equally distribute land between the black and the whites. This act remained in affect from 1930 until the end of British rule in 1979. The land was divided into three parts; European land, land for the tribes and people of Zimbabwe, and land that is for the general public or open space. The Europeans, which made up 1% of the Zimbabwe population provided 70% of the food. After 1979, when this law was not in affect anymore, the original people of Zimbabwe slash and burned the European agriculture, causing two thirds of 11.6 million people in starvation.