Government instability and civic unrest were evident in other areas . Zimbabwean troops , trained by North Korean soldiers , conducted a massacre in the 1980s in the southern provinces of Matabeleland and Midlands , though Mugabe 's government cites guerrilla attacks on civilian and state targets . Conflicts between the Ndebele ethnic minority and Mugabe 's majority Shona people have led to many clashes , and there is also unrest between blacks and whites , in which the land reform was a factor . An aspect of this reform that seeks to bar whites from business ownership induced many to leave the country
a massacre in the 1980s
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Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe