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HARARE – The Zimbabwean Parliament erupted in an emotive debate last week over a motion to provide security of tenure for occupants of communal lands. The proposal, led by the leader of the opposition, Clifford Hlatywayo, sparked discussions on how to empower rural communities and unlock the economic potential of these areas, with lawmakers drawing inspiration from successful models in neighboring South Africa.
Former Finance minister Tendai Biti and Norton legislator Temba Mliswa have told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to amend the constitution for his administration to be able to seize idle land from black people for redistribution to white Zimbabweans.
Zimbabwe was proceeding with the compensation of former commercial farmers who were displaced during the country’s agrarian report despite growing criticism against the policy, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said last week, highlighting that compensation for land improvements was a constitutional obligation.
Zimbabwe should press on with transparent and fair land reform, Britain said on Friday, as Harare’s new leaders look to overhaul policies that evicted thousands of white farmers without compensation.
Zimbabwe’s controversial programme to redistribute land taken from white farmers cost 1,5 million jobs, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has said.
By Tatenda Dewa | Harare Bureau | President Robert Mugabe’s government is re-routing large swathes of farmland grabbed from former commercial white farmers under a controversial fast track land redistribution programme to Chinese nationals. Government launched the controversial land reform in 2000, purportedly to resettle thousands of land hungry blacks, the majority of who, however, […]
By Tatenda Dewa | Harare Bureau | Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) president and former Home Affairs minister under President Robert Mugabe’s government, Dumiso Dabengwa, has slammed the land reform programme, saying it has contributed to the current “politically-induced” economic crisis. The Zanu PF government embarked on the land redistribution exercise from early 2000, purportedly […]
By Tabitha Mutenga | Financial Gazette | Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped government could face a US$30 billion bill for compensation of land expropriated from white farmers under the country’s controversial land redistribution exercise that saw the country plunge from being a regional breadbasket to a basket case. This liability has trebled after earlier estimates had pegged the […]
By Eddie Cross On the 16th March 2016, the Minister of Finance in Zimbabwe tabled a memorandum in Parliament establishing a special Fund to raise and administer the payment of compensation to owners of land held in Zimbabwe under freehold tenure. The paper implied that compensation would be for four items: 1. The land itself; […]
By Cathy Buckle Driving past the big Acacia trees where the vervet monkeys always used to play, I feel the knot in my stomach tightening. It’s a beautiful day: warm blue sky, pink and white Cosmos flowers along the roadsides and the grass is tall and golden but already I don’t want to see what […]