Zimbabwe farmers offered $3.5bn to settle old land dispute
It’s not clear where Zimbabwe could find the sum, and the government still wants the UK to help pay
08 July 2020 - 17:43
Harare — Zimbabwe’s white commercial farmers, who were violently evicted from their land in a series of invasions that began two decades ago, said they have been offered $3.5bn to settle their dispute with the government.
The offer is for improvements and assets on the more than 4,000 farms that were seized and doesn’t pertain to the land itself, said Ben Gilpin, director of the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU). An agreement is yet to be reached. The CFU represents most large-scale farmers in the country...
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