This article examines the way discourses of autochthony and belonging were deployed by various groups of people to make claims over land during the implementation of Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in 2000. Although the FTLRP was not officially restitutive, people who occupied farms in Mhondoro Ngezi in central Zimbabwe claimed they were recovering their ancestral lands lost during colonial-era forced removals. As a result, discourses of autochthony and belonging became salient during land occupations. The paper concludes by arguing that claims of autochthony and belonging remain hugely contested and that such claims have underpinned the way various groups of people who occupied a former white-owned conservancy made claims over land and how they sought to legitimise such claims.

本文考察了2000年津巴布韦快速土地改革计划（FTLRP）实施过程中各族人民对土地使用权和所有权的话语的使用方式。尽管FTLRP并未正式恢复原状，但占领了农场的人们津巴布韦中部的Mhondoro Ngezi声称他们正在恢复殖民时期被迫搬迁期间失去的祖传土地。结果，在土地占领期间，关于自主权和归属的论述变得很重要。该论文的结论是，关于自主权和财产权的主张仍在激烈争论，并且这种主张巩固了占领前白人拥有的保护区的各族人民对土地的主张以及他们如何使这些主张合法化的方式。