CFU congress set for July 26
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Zimbabwe’s white farmers will hold their traditional annual congress on July
26 in Harare to discuss problems facing the sector, including the crafting
of a new policy document and amendments to the union’s constitution.
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The congress, scheduled for Wild Geese Lodge in Harare, is also expected to
witness the election of a new Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) leadership to
take over from the Deon Theron-led council.
The CFU has been working on an agriculture recovery proposal that it has
submitted to government for discussion.
Zimbabwe’s beleaguered white farmers have shown growing frustration at
failure by the country’s coalition government and their union to end chaos
in the farming sector.
The unity government of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan
Tsvangirai has watched helplessly as members of the security forces and
hardliner activists of Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) party intensified a drive to seize
all land still in white hands.
The coalition government is yet to act to fulfil the promise to restore law
and order in the key agricultural sector, while more farms – including some
owned by foreigners and protected under bilateral investment protection
agreements between Zimbabwe and other nations— have been seized since 2009.
And to make matters worse, police and judicial officers who are supposed to
enforce the rule of law were also among the beneficiaries of the
free-for-all land grab.