By Jane Mlambo| Opposition MDC-T Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora has urged government to also consider compensation to former farm workers who lost their jobs during the chaotic land reform as a social and economic imperative.

Posting on Twitter, Mwonzora who is also Manicaland Senator said former commercial farm workers lost their means of livelihood due to the land reform program hence deserve compensation.

“The State must compensate the farm workers who lost thier employment and therefore thier means of livelihood due to the Land Reform Program. This is both a social and economic imperative. The process must be transparent and completely de-politicised,” said Mwonzora.

Government has committed to compensate White farmers for developments made on the land which they were dispossessed of in 2000 during the land reform exercise.

Their loss of land also affected hundreds of thousand of families who earned their livelihoods from working at the farms.