Howard Unwin Moffat

Howard Unwin Moffat ( born January 13, 1869 in Kuruman, Cape Colony, † January 19, 1951 ) was from 1927 to 1933, the second Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia.

Life

Moffat was the grandson of the missionary Robert Moffat and the nephew of David Livingstone. After serving in the Border Police of Bechuanaland, he went to Bulawayo and served in the fight against the Matabele and the Second Boer War. Since 1923, Moffat was Member of Parliament for Victoria. Charles Patrick John Coghlan appointed him as Minister of Mines and work in his cabinet. After the death Coghlans Moffat followed him into the office as Prime Minister. Under his rule the country Apportionment Act was adopted in 1930. This law divided the land into residential areas for blacks and whites. The "fast track land reform " ( fast-track land reform ) since 2000, originally a program for land redistribution from white farmers to landless black peasants, makes this law reversed. 1933 resigned Moffat.