Zimbabwe To Compensate Over 400 Evicted White Farmers For Land Improvements
5 months agoThu, 17 Oct 2024 15:04:26 GMT
The Zimbabwean government says it will compensate local and foreign white farmers who lost land and property during the farm seizures around the year 2000.
Approximately 4,000 white farmers were affected by the land redistribution programme launched by then-president Robert Mugabe in 2000, which turned violent at times.
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube announced on Wednesday at a meeting with diplomats that the government approved $351.6 million for local white farmers and $196.6 million for foreign claimants, but only 1% of the compensation will be paid in cash.
The remaining compensation will be issued through treasury bonds.
The government has approved payments for 444 former commercial farm owners, compensating them for improvements made to the land before their eviction.
Foreign claimants from countries including Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Eastern Europe will share an initial $20 million. Said Ncube:
The government allocated $35 million in the 2024 budget for compensating former farm owners who are part of the Global Compensation Deed signed in 2020.
The compensation for local farmers covers infrastructure such as buildings and irrigation equipment, not the land itself.
Foreigners covered under investment agreements will be compensated for both land and infrastructure.
The payments are expected in the last quarter of 2024.
The payments are vital in the southern African nation’s bid to win over creditors for the restructure of the $21 billion debt it owes, after defaulting in 1999.
The nation confirmed that it had hired advisers to help with the restructure, including Global Sovereign Advisory and Kelper-Karst, with support from the African Legal Support Facility.
In 2020, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government signed a compensation deal with white farmers, encouraging them to apply for new land.
All farmland is now government-owned and leased to occupants.
The government plans to allow beneficiaries of the reform to sell land only to “Indigenous Zimbabweans,” sparking criticism.
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ss · 5 months ago
musatsvaga. Dzvene kuvarungu. mhani. pasi.. nekucombansete. varungu
sign. shirichena · 5 months ago
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sign. shirichena. · 5 months ago
machina. hongu. akabatsira. language. yehondo. asindivotovavadyi. venhaka. kudarikaisuvene. pa50yrs.dzinotevera.tunenge.twapedza.makomoose.vene.venyika.rinongovaZita.kutitakatora.nyika.daimukatoti.takatoranyikatikapa.machina
Mbavha · 5 months ago
Zvagara zvekuba ndorwendo remari munyika ino
ZiGi · 5 months ago
Mava kuda kudya imwe mari muzita ew compensation maita makore mangani muchiziva kuti mune mari ye improvemnt yevaridzi? Muri mbavha kubira isu povho.
pm · 5 months ago
ndarangarira gamba.
Anonymous · 5 months ago
Zimbabwe used to be the "BREAD BASKET" of Africa. AND NOW ??? Blame it on the whites ??
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kwachu · 5 months ago
murungu arinani pane muchaina vanhu vanzwa nekurobhwa netumachaina better dzorayi zvenyu warungu pane twuno twenyu itwotwu twatouraya nyika zvachose murungu arinani mufunge Chinese are looters they are taking everything to China
Abeshto
· 5 months ago
No compensation to white farmers hazvibude
🚮Jabu · 5 months ago
u're right man , the problem we have here is that , our representatives they can't argue in english and what ever a white man says they just say ,"it's ok sir" ......i **** this republic n this goiq to sky rocketing of everything here in Zim😭😭😭
Three3⃣ · 5 months ago
Pasi ne chirungu chavo futi
Anonymous · 5 months ago
Looting zvayo yoiswa pa public debt yenyika
Anonymous · 5 months ago
Hurry up and wait.
Goi koi · 5 months ago
Ko tadii tamborwisa dambudziko renzara zvimwe zvese zvozotevera rangarirai vanhu vari kumusha kut vari kubatana nei hama dzangu
Goi koi · 5 months ago
Moko iro huchi baba
Oliver Duka · 5 months ago
Baiberi Magwaro Matȿene aMŋari 1949 (Doke) Ruka 16:11 Naiɀoɀo kana musina‐kuʋa ʋakatendeka pafuma isakarurama, ndianiko ucakutendainefuma yaɀokwaɗi?
ClD Admire kuyeri · 5 months ago
Maita vana vadiki muZimbabwe bindura Tepatepa ****land central province
citizen for sure · 5 months ago
Compensation yei?Which developments are they talking abt?Whose resources did they use for all those developments?They looted our minerals:gold,diamond,emerald,chrome, lithium etc at zero cost.They used brutal means to seize our land not theirs.After all they did to our forefathers,now they are compensated.ls that fair?Mthuli is not a good leader at all.We need employee centered leaders not partisan leaders.Give that money to civil servants not those killers who did a lot of atrocities.Murderers are compensated for killing our people?
Anonymous · 5 months ago
You mean resources like the diamonds looted from Chiadzwa. They used the country's resources to build hospitals, working infrastructure and public services like transport. When your efforts are free. Let the rest of us know.
Corruptmore Looto · 5 months ago
You were given Africa's fourth most industrialised country as of 1980, it's not their fault that you messed it up. To me that is enough compensation, what more did you want them to do huh, pay you in cash for you to be content. People like you overlook everything you learned from the whites but choose to instead solely focus on the negatives, that will not lead you anywhere seeing that you are clueless as evidenced by a third world economy with dilapidated Infrastructure and frequent periods of hyperinflation.
mags · 5 months ago
Imwe mubvunzo inongoratidza how **** you are. You think those who want to compensate havafunge asi iwewe manje ndiwe une dzakakwana.
shurushuru · 5 months ago
COMPENSATE VICTIMS OF GUKURAUNDI FIRST!
🐅🐯🍓🎉♥️ · 5 months ago
start to pay civil servants good money in USD before going outside.look into the government institutions no good services are available or there is poor services because of low salaries, wages whatsoever whilst politicians are fighting over millions of dollars.the black government of Zimbabwe must consider what is important between politics, corruption and services which are given by people who are in civil service.people shall suffer or die because of poor services.zimbabwe shall go nowhere in terms of development, stealing country resources in name of new currencies.lying to civil servants that we increasing your money in USD and in zwg/zig and later they liquidate USD figures to zig.when you here them saying or talking about liquidation they have already smuggled USD out of the country for their own benefit.
Anonymous · 5 months ago
That will only make the country more broke. There are too many for the country to pay for. You must have more money to pay more money. Government cannot run the economy because it produces nothing of value that can be traded.
Nkalakata · 5 months ago
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘏𝘐𝘛𝘌 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘡𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮? 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘡𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘸𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮? 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥🙄, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵.
Sir African · 5 months ago
lies,we have had this before.
derby · 5 months ago
These guys are very funny yesterday they said ,anyone who wishies. to sell his or her farm must do it willingly ,but now they want to use customers tax money to compensate their farm which they need to resale vakangwara Havana nhamo
Si**** · 5 months ago
Ndini chivhayo ndakatorerwa 4 farm so l want 6 million
🚮Jabu · 5 months ago
my question is....Are they going to compensate the blood of innocent souls they shaded at Chimioi , nyadzonya n alongside other refugee camps the attacked
Sir African · 5 months ago
It was a war and not a picnic.
Nkalakata · 5 months ago
𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
🚮Jabu · 5 months ago
and even that one what u're calling picnic ,it was a war too buh not a war of rifles n landmines ...it was Hondo yeminda just like what they did when the came into Mashonaland bfr the 1st chimurenga....the problem is that our representatives are weak n thy need to loot out of that again
Muntu · 5 months ago
And once the whites left Zimbabwe returned to being the ****hole backward country it was before
ll · 5 months ago
hanzi varwere vashungurudzika pane imwe hospital hombe munyika apa umwe tsaga ari kuda kutopa mun i hope achaita mazigihu anokwanisa kumuchengeta mari
Oncemore · 5 months ago
Zero compansation is the best thing to do. Buy cultivating stollen land I think they made unjustified profits. They were poor when they came in Zimbabwe
Abeshto
· 5 months ago
Mugabe uripiko hona vanhu Vaya chibvumirano chiye chatakaita namadzibaba avo ma British kuti vachatipa mari topa vana vavo chachorwa maiwee
Anonymous · 5 months ago
Foreign claimants ???????? So how many trillion to be paid to white farmers for agricultural infrastructure and land ???
Thabombeki · 5 months ago
lies you want to steal the money pakawanika mumwe anopihwa imwe inobiwa
Ndex · 5 months ago
I think so too
Ding Dong · 5 months ago
ipai Mari yacho vashandi vaishanda muma farm macho Havana chavakasiirwa
Ding Dong · 5 months ago
Mari iyoyo takuto enda ku wrong people tozviziva yakutobiwa iyi
Anonymous · 5 months ago
Ndapinda machena ini Wezhira mu specially.Ndinotobata kana 30 $ dzekisimusi nechimvana changu chenakuru chiya. Maikumba nevana havalume chingu.
Ding Dong · 5 months ago
ipai ma teacher Mari yacho
DEBSTONE · 5 months ago
Ipai ma Teacher first Mari yacho
Oncemore · 5 months ago
Kwete ma teacher chete, povo yose irikushupika
...,. · 5 months ago
with a history of making promises that are never followed up and having borrowed and not repaying and boasting of lithium, gold, chrome and platinum and other natural resources, the world finds us difficult, if not impossible to deal with. what was inherited from the whites, in addition to pensions and savings of companies and individuals were all consumed and ****s were taken which are ballooning due to the interest resulting from ignoring the ****s. we want the world to help us with nearly 3 billion dollars for food and at the same time we want the world to pay about the same amount to the white farmers for us. in a few days time, Africa will be celebrating with us on what has become an annual event to do with sanctions without any timelines or deadlines set.
Yoyoyo · 5 months ago
😁😁 Ah ko Ivo varungu vakamboita compensate mabhoyi here because they made improvements by fertilizing the land you forget there were no toilets so vaka nyira nyika yese and the soil became fertile for Rhodesia/Zimbabwe to be bread basket.
