Reading Time: 2 minutes Harare | Reuters — Zimbabwe’s new agriculture minister on Wednesday ordered illegal occupiers of farms to vacate the land immediately, a move that could ultimately see some white farmers who say they were unfairly evicted return to farming. Perrance Shiri, a military hardliner who was head of the air force before being picked for the […] Read more
Zimbabwe orders illegal settlers to vacate farms
Zimbabwe farmers resist compensating evicted landowners
Reading Time: 4 minutes Harare | Reuters –– Zimbabwe’s plan to win back international funding by paying compensation to white farmers forced off their land faces a major snag: the black farmers expected to stump up the cash say they don’t have it. The new occupants working the land, many of who had few farming skills when they were […] Read more
Zimbabwe plans 100 per cent “local control” of minerals, land
Reading Time: < 1 minute Harare | Reuters — Zimbabwe will demand 100 per cent local control of its minerals and land under planned changes to its controversial black economic empowerment law, which has largely kept some foreign investors away, the finance minister said on Wednesday. Patrick Chinamasa’s comments are sure to add to an already confused picture over policy […] Read more
New Zimbabwe land invasions raise security concerns
Reading Time: 2 minutes Harare | Reuters — Hundreds of illegal settlers invaded sugar estates owned by the Zimbabwe units of South Africa’s Tongaat Hullett this week, raising new concerns about the security of foreign investment in the southern African country. While production was not affected, the invasions will worry investors already uneasy over President Robert Mugabe’s black empowerment […] Read more
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