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In his memoir “Jambanja” (2006), Eric Harrison makes a curious observation that in 2000 “the President of Zimbabwe changed the Constitution”, opining that it was “at a stroke of a pen”, declaring that “the people of Zimbabwe have been unjustifiably dispossessed of their land”.
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