Former white commercial farmers who were kicked out of their farms by government in 2000 have rejected government’s offer to compensate them for the developments they made on the farms.
According to the state media former white commercial farmers in Harare on Thursday told Lands and Rural Resettlement Minister Douglas Mombeshora that government should give them back their farms back as opposed to compensating them.
Mr Peter Steyl, representing the Commercial Farmers Union, said former farm owners who bought their land after independence in 1980 should be allowed to go back on their land and resume their business like any other Zimbabwean.
Mombeshora told them that out of the 6240 farms acquired under the controversial land reform programme, only 240 previous owners have been fully compensated and 17 partially.
He said 1519 of the acquired farms had been valued to ascertain their value to determine the compensation payable to the previous owner.
President Robert Mugabe has declared that there was no going back on the chaotic land reform programme.
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At face value that suggestion makes sense. However a case by case approach may be needed.
The wealth used to procure those farms needs to be traced back to its roots. If for example it links to a farm(s) acquired prior to Independence, I would suggest that a different approach be taken. Perhaps require a certain amount to be repaid for the farm in order for it to be returned.
Repaid was not a typing error. As this land was initially taken without compensation from the African. How the government distributes that compensation is a different discussion all together.
White men are Gods. Worship GOD. They even invented Communism ( Karl Marx was white ), Lenin and Stalin.
White men are Gods. Worship GOD. They even invented Communism ( Karl Marx was white ), Lenin and Stalin.
Zanu PF wants to leave this story open so that it troubles the next government. He who benefited must pay.
Zanu PF wants to leave this story open so that it troubles the next government. He who benefited must pay.
White people be warned, it will never be safe for you out there! Lets admit it, black Zimbabweans also have rights to productive agricultural land!
White people be warned, it will never be safe for you out there! Lets admit it, black Zimbabweans also have rights to productive agricultural land!
Zimbabwe shall never be a colony again
Zimbabwe shall never be a colony again
Racial aggression using dictatorial policy (if any) and language.
Racial aggression using dictatorial policy (if any) and language.
But how do we deal with those white people who bought farms after independence? That is thievery or daylight robbery if their farms are not returned….