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| 1999 |
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| Court rulings pulled back from full legal equality for women, arguing that tradition gave primacy in property ownership to men. | 1 |
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| 2000, Feb. 12 |
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| In light of a nationwide fuel crisis, 50 percent unemployment, and 60 percent inflation, voters in Zimbabwe rejected a new constitution that would have given Mugabe more power by extending his time in office by 12 years. Out of the referendum came plans for elections in 2002 and opposition to Mugabe's plan allowing landless blacks to seize lands owned by whites. | 2 |
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| April |
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| Violence stirred against white farmers after a land redistribution campaign by Pres. Mugabe that opposed many Zimbabwean white landowners, who made up 1 percent of the population but owned more than 70 percent of the land. Mugabe's support for belligerent squatters on white land has led to foreign sanctions against Zimbabwe. | 3 |
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| June 24–25 |
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| Legislative elections resulted in 57 of 120 seats being won by the opposition party. | 4 |
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| Dec. 1 |
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| Pres. Mugabe met with South African president Thabo Mbeki and Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo to discuss the political and economic turmoil that had resulted from Mugabe's land redistribution program. These talks, and a discussion with UN representatives, were aimed at encouraging Mugabe to consider compensating white landowners whose property was being taken over. | 5 |
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