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$17bn lost to land reform chaos  Financial Gazette 8/5/2018  Tabitha Mutenga Staff Reporter  ZIMBABWE has lost nearly $17 billion in agricultural exports and production to land invasions since 2000, independent economist John Robertson says. This disclosure comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has been des­perate to revive the sector through a cocktail of measures, including …

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The Land Question & the Perils of Magical Thinking RW Johnson | 19 March 2018 RW Johnson writes that at the root of the EWC debate is an insatiable symbolic hunger The decision by the ANC to back expropriation without compensation (EWC) has occasioned a tremendous gale of comment. Ramaphosa seems to have gone along …

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5 lessons SA can learn from Zim land grabs   1 March 6, 2018 2:05 AM   Source: 5 lessons SA can learn from Zim land grabs | Fin24 SOUTH African MPs recently voted in favour of a motion to begin a process that will allow land expropriation without compensation. But as the country pushes for this radical …

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Response written by Mark Philip Malcolm Horn – London Barrister. * No one does business with a thief, and no one extends credit to a thief. “You can not have land expropriation without compensation. It is illegal in international law. It is contrary to a dozen treaties that South Africa has signed and ratified. As …

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