Zimbabwe says foreign white farmers can apply to get back seized land

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Zimbabwe says foreign white farmers can apply to get back seized land​

9/1/2020

HARARE (Reuters) - Foreign white farmers settled in Zimbabwe whose land was seized under Robert Mugabe can apply to get it back and will be offered land elsewhere if restitution proves impractical, the government said on Monday.

Last month, Zimbabwe agreed to pay $3.5 billion in compensation to local white farmers whose land was forcibly taken by the government to resettle Black families, moving a step closer to resolving one the most divisive policies of the Robert Mugabe era.

Under Zimbabwean laws passed during a short period of opposition government but ignored by Mugabe, foreign white farmers protected by treaties between their governments and Zimbabwe should be compensated for both land and other assets.
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This seems significant, White farmers had their lands confiscated, now, they may be getting it back.

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I don’t know how many white people will want to return to Zimbabwe, many farmers were forcibly,even violently, removed from their farms, quite a few whites migrated to the UK, Australia, South Africa. The economy is in ruin, it’s not a politically stable country, crime is high, how many will want to return will be up to those who left during the Mugabe regime.
 
Wonder what RhodesianSon thinks of this.

Zimbabwe was once the largest food exporter in Africa. Then the expropriation. Perhaps the people to whom Mugabe handed the farms didn’t have any idea that farming is hard work and requires knowledge about how to work the land to keep it going for generations. Expertise and work ethic that are mostly long gone. In recent years, Zimbabwe has been importing food and that is costing them a nice chunk of change. Thus the apparent revision. Sure Mugabe is gone, but would anyone trust the government?
 
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requires knowledge about how to work the land to keep it going for generations.
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It is my impression that much of the land in Zimbabwe is “dryland” that gets plenty of rain at limited times per year but then has protracted dry periods that require a great deal of skill to deal with.
 
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