By Own Correspondent| Lands, Agriculture, Rural Resettlement, Water and Climate Minister Perrance Shiri has extended an olive branch to the white farmers adding that government would correct past injustices made under the land reform program.

In a speech read on his behalf at the 75th CFU Annual Congress in Harare by director for farmer training, Mr Moffat Nyamangara, Minister Shiri said that while the land reform program was an irreversible exercise, government recognised the property rights of existing land owners.

Said Shiri:

“On the challenges which the farmer community faces, there is one which is a matter of particular anxiety to many of your members — the land reform.

Our Government is firmly committed to a process of the need for corrective measures to deal with the consequences of past injustices.

But it is equally important that new injustices are not created or production capacity disrupted. Our policy acknowledges the property rights of existing land owners.

It also recognises the legitimate demand for justice from those who have been dispossessed or excluded. In addressing these matters, organised agriculture should seek to be part of the process of change, with the aim of sharing in the creation of a more just dispensation.”- StateMedia.