Fast forward to 2000 and I was in Zim when Mugabe sent his boy out with notice that they were seizing the land we were on....
I was in Zim a bit before you were. It was scary when the "war veterans" came en mass into the camp one day. With machetes. Probably 50 of them.
I recall telling the PH that if anyone touched my wife, I had 100 rounds of 308 and would use them all.
There were no good choices that day.
It was touch and go for a while, then they left.