Category: Compensation (archives)

US$53m compensation for displaced farmers reconfigured to RTGS$ eDuzeNet 7/6/2019 THE US$53 million that was allocated in this year’s budget to compensate white farmers, who lost farms during the chaotic land redistribution exercise of 2000, has been reconfigured to RTGS$53 million, and will only be for “interim relief” purposes and not for the actual damages …

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737 white former commercial farmers register for compensation   30/5/2019 The Herald Africa Moyo Deputy News Editor Government has completed the registration of white former commercial farmers eligible for compensation for improvements on farms in line with the country’s laws. The exercise ends tomorrow, 737 farmers having registered. In a statement today, the Ministry of …

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Zimbabwe’s white farmers: Who will pay compensation?    17/5/2019 The government is giving some compensation – but not for the land the farmers lost two decades ago. Source: Zimbabwe’s white farmers: Who will pay compensation? – BBC News Dave Wakefield, who lost his farm in 2001, has leased land from a black owner In Zimbabwe, thousands of …

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Governement pays US$64m to white former farmers   16/5/2019 The Chronicle Eita Chikwati, Harare Bureau GOVERNMENT has to date paid US$64,4 million to 93 former commercial farmers for the improvements they made on reallocated farms, a senior official has said. Presenting a Ministerial Statement on the State of Economy in Parliament last night, Finance and Economic …

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FARM COMPENSATION TO COST AT LEAST US$10BN.  Independent 10/5/2019 GOVERNMENT’S decision to offer RTGSS53 million in compensation to white farmers who were dispossessed of their land has been met with mixed reactions. While some of the ex-farmers who are now in dire straits after being plunged into poverty at the turn of the millennium, the …

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 White farmers compensation inadvertently exposes Ncube  The Brett Chulu Column  Zimbabwe Independent 17 April 2019  WHILE I am delighted that the gov­ernment seems to be taking on board most of the advice this column and many other platforms have been ar­ticulating on the matter of compen­sation for the forcibly acquired farms, the joint statement by …

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900 white farmers register for compensation   3/5/2019 The Chronicle Felex Share, Harare Bureau AT least 900 white former commercial farmers who lost land during the country’s agrarian reform have registered for compensation as Government intensifies efforts to pay them for improvements they made on the farms. Government has allocated $53 million in the national budget …

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Compensation for white ex-farmers sparks intense debate across Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe Situation   28/4/2019   President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing a paradoxical situation with a whole cross-section of Zimbabweans questioning his decision to pay compensation to white commercial farmers.   “Our government’s repeated stance that we are paying only for ‘improvements’ and not the land …

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Govt’s decision to compensate white ex-farmers above board    27/4/2019 Herald The compensation is expected to try and end the controversy over land reform and succeed in re-engaging the international community — and perhaps end the economic and financial embargo on Zimbabwe so that the country at long last may access finance from the World …

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Zimbabwe’s White Farmers Hopeful After Promise of Compensation  HARARE, ZIMBABWE — 18/4/2019 Most white farmers lost land under redistribution program of President Robert Mugabe Source: Zimbabwe’s White Farmers Hopeful After Promise of Compensation – VOA As Zimbabwe prepares to celebrate 39 years of independence on Thursday, some white farmers are cautiously hopeful about President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s promise …

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