White farmers welcome offer by Zimbabwe’s government to get back land
The country has gazetted a law to offer farms, as an alternative to compensation, to selected white farmers
22 March 2020 - 20:56
Harare — The Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) which is comprised of the largest group of white farmers evicted from farms under Zimbabwe’s controversial land-reform programme has welcomed the deal offered by government last week to give them land in lieu of compensation.
Zimbabwe made what appeared to be a climbdown from the land reform programme last week after gazetting a law to offer farms, as an alternative to compensation, to selected white farmers...
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