Howard Unwin Moffat
Howard Unwin Moffat (born January 13, 1869 in Kuruman , Cape Colony , † January 19, 1951 ) was the second Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1927 to 1933 .
Life
Moffat was the grandson of missionary Robert Moffat and the nephew of David Livingstone . After his service in the Bechuanaland border police , he went to Bulawayo and served in the fight against the Matabele and in the Second Boer War . From 1923 Moffat was MP for Victoria . Charles Patrick John Coghlan appointed him to his cabinet as Minister of Mines and Labor. After Coghlan's death, Moffat succeeded him as prime minister. The Land Apportionment Act was passed under his reign in 1930. This law divided the country into settlement areas for blacks and whites. The "fast-track land reform" since 2000, originally a program to redistribute land from white farmers to landless black farmers, reverses this law. In 1933 Moffat resigned.
literature
- R. Kent Rasmussen (Ed.): Historical Dictionary of Rhodesia / Zimbabwe (= African Historical Dictionaries. Volume 18). 1st edition. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen / London 1979, ISBN 0-8108-1187-1 .
- Peter Bridger, Mary Akers, David Yates, Felicity Wood (Eds.): Encyclopaedia Rhodesia. College Press, Salisbury 1973.
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| SURNAME | Moffat, Howard Unwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kuruman , Cape Colony |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1951 |