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President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday defended his government’s move to compensate white former commercial farmers for improvements on farmland seized during the 2000 fast-track land reform programme, saying the decision was a constitutional requirement.
Zimbabwe is to start paying compensation this year to thousands of white farmers who lost land under former president Robert Mugabe’s land reform nearly two decades ago, the government said, as it seeks to bring closure to a highly divisive issue.
There is an upsurge in attempts to forcibly take over Zimbabwean properties still owned by whites 15 years after the launch of a land reform programme, a Zimbabwe farmers’ union said.
ZANU PF Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has sought to downplay President Robert Mugabe’s rant against white people as a ‘misunderstanding’.
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has ordered the nation’s remaining white farmers to be booted off their farms in order that the land be given to black Zimbabweans.
“Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, they must tremble…. The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans….The white man is part of “an evil alliance.”
A Londoner forced off her 3,600 acre farm in Zimbabwe told today of her battle to get justice from Robert Mugabe’s regime. Timolene Tibbett, 56, was thrown out of their home with her late husband Rolf and their three children by war veterans in 2001.
Converts of African agrarian reform and those on both sides of the political divide in Zimbabwe will find my critique unsavoury to the ideological palate. Unpopularity is unpleasant, but when it ratchets up truth, justice and common sense, it becomes an invaluable asset.
HARARE – White commercial farmers have come under renewed siege from farm invaders following the disbandment of the Sadc Tribunal last week, according to representatives.