text: The power-sharing deal addresses the thorny issue of land, with the parties accepting "the irreversibility" of the seizures of white-owned farms since 2000. They recognize that "colonial racist land ownership patterns ... were not only unsustainable, but against the national interest, equity and justice."
  Thousands of white farmers were thrown off the land in often-violent seizures that caused the collapse of the country's agricultural base. Mugabe said the farms would go to landless blacks but many went to his cronies, and some got several farms which were left fallow.