Category: Compensation (archives)

Zimbabwe’s white farmers want better compensation from Mnangagwa    24/4/2019 Zimbabwe’s plan to compensate white farmers is facing a backlash from party loyalists and the farmers Source: Zimbabwe’s white farmers want better compensation from Mnangagwa — Quartz Africa Farm workers chat during the harvesting of tobacco at Dormervale farm east of Harare, Zimbabwe, November 28, 2017. Zimbabwe’s …

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The case for the compensation of white farmers   16/4/2019 The Chronicle Nobleman Runyanga, Correspondent Last week Government announced the commencement of the process of identifying and registering the white former farmers, who lost land during the land reform programme, in an exercise which is being co-ordinated by the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) and the Compensation …

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To compensate or not to compensate?    15/4/2019 Source: To compensate or not to compensate? | Newsday (News) guest column Paul Kaseke Government sent tongues wagging this week with news that it intends to proceed with the compensation of white farmers for expropriated land. Of importance, however, is that government has qualified that it will concern …

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Zimbabwe leader says compensation only for elderly white farmers  – Zimbabwe Situation   16/4/2019 HARARE – The Zimbabwe government will give priority to elderly white farmers when it starts compensating those who lost their properties during the controversial land reforms, the president said in an interview published on Sunday. The finance and agriculture ministries last …

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Zim engages Britain on farm compensation      Source: Zim engages Britain on farm compensation | The Sunday Mail April 14, 2019 Senior Reporter Government has opened negotiations with British authorities as it seeks to raise over US$3 billion required to compensate white former commercial farmers whose land was appropriated during the fast track Land Reform Programme, President …

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Farmers, business welcome decision   12/4/2019 The Herald Golden Sibanda Senior ReporterWhite former commercial farmers have described Government’s decision to start compensating them for improvements on farms taken to resettle landless people as a welcome gesture that should bring finality to the land question. In a joint statement, the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU), the Compensation …

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Politics, constitutionalism of compensation   12/4/2019 The Herald Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Reporter There is a method and law to Zimbabwe’s policy of compensating white former commercial farmers for improvements on the land, steeped in the Constitution and the Second Republic’s ethos. Yesterday, legal experts and analysts rallied behind President Mnangagwa’s stance of compensating white former …

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— COMMENT — Realpolitik of compensation   12/4/2019 The Herald Realpolitik is defined as “a system of politics or principles based on practical, rather than moral or ideological considerations”. There could be no better term to describe the approach being taken by Zimbabwe under President Mnangagwa regards the emotive land question where the current debate …

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‘No going back on land reform’…Ex-farmers’ compensation a constitutional mandate: ED   12/4/2019 President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrives for the Zanu-PF National Youth Assembly, accompanied by party secretary for Youth Affairs Cde Pupurai Togarepi in Harare yesterday – (Picture by Innocent Makawa) The Chronicle Felex Share, Harare Bureau President Mnangagwa yesterday said the land reform programme …

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Zimbabwe land compensation: This is a chance to move forward, says white farmer Crecey Kuyedzwa, Fin24 11/4/2019 For 64-year-old Ben Gilpin, a white former commercial farmer in Zimbabwe, the country’s fast track land reform programme – which started in 2000 and led to the displacement of approximately 3 500 white commercial farmers – has been …

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