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25 Years After Infamous Land Grabs, Zimbabwe Turns a Page
- Late last year, Zimbabwe replaced the previous 99-year leases by granting full property ownership to individuals who received land through the reform programs of the 2000s.
- This followed a ruinous land reform in the 2000s that confiscated around 4,000 white-owned farms amid food shortages and economic decline.
- Some beneficiaries, including Mupambawashe and Burger, struggled initially but now operate productive farms and welcome the tenure changes.
- The government started compensating 378 of 780 approved former farmers with bonds under international guarantee in April this year after decades of delay.
- The new tenure and compensation initiatives seek to restructure the economy and restore eligibility for overseas financial support that was suspended nearly twenty years ago.
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Zimbabwe: Tagwirei-Led Land Tenure Committee a Coterie of Looters
LATE President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has come out in support of a constitutional court application by disgruntled war veterans who are challenging the legality of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Lands Tenure Implementation Committee.
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The ZimbabweanZimbabwe’s farmers push on as land grab compensation flounders
In a field of paprika plants in the heart of Zimbabwe, fourth-generation farmer Daniel Burger and relative newcomer Miriam Mupambawashe discuss the quality of the crop. Burger, 36, and Mupambawashe, 59, are neighbours and partners in efforts to revive the country's once-flourishing agriculture sector cut down by a ruinous land reform drive in the 2000s.
‘Zim could unlock US$9bn from retaken land’ - Zimbabwe Situation
Source: ‘Zim could unlock US$9bn from retaken land’ -Newsday Zimbabwe THE African Development Bank’s (AfDB’s) outgoing president Akinwumi Adesina says Zimbabwe could unlock up to US$9 billion from land seized during the 2001 land reform programme — if it had title deeds. The Zimbabwean government undertook the controversial fast-track land reform programme at the turn of the millennium to displace white farmers from their land and redistribute i…
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