Zimbabwe yesterday announced it had no more land for resettlement, signalling the end of a chaotic, 15-year exercise during which 4000 white commercial farmers were forcibly evicted and government treaties violated – leaving many aspirant black landowners high and dry. “We are satisfied with the programme; obviously it hasn’t had […]
Tag: Land Reform
Zimbabwe family lose farm to a UK doctor
A white Zimbabwean farming family gave up their struggle to hold on to their land yesterday after armed paramilitary police drove them out to make way for a black doctor who lives in Britain. “It’s all over,” said Barry Rankin, 33, after police trucks emptied his parents’ home of all […]
‘White farmers should be compensated’
GOVERNMENT must prioritise the compensation of white former commercial farmers for improvements they made on land it acquired during the ad hoc and often chaotic land reform programme which started in 2000, a Zanu PF MP has said. Contributing to a motion on the Finance Bill in Parliament on Wednesday, Zanu […]
Eddie Cross: The Political Character of Land Reform in Zimbabwe
WHEN the ruling Party, Zanu PF lost the referendum in February 2000 and then nearly lost the elections to the Lower House that same year, they appreciated for the first time that they were in a real struggle for power and control of the State. An analysis of both votes showed […]