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Africa Subsaharan
Mugabe is asking back the white farmers he chased away
2015-08-05
In 2000 Robert Mugabe shocked the world when he made dramatic changes to land ownership laws in Zimbabwe which resulted in thousands of white Zimbabwean farmers being forced to give up their farms and many to leave the country.

Those white farmers owned 70% of the most arable land in the country which they had inherited from a colonial past built on racial hierarchy.

But now the tide is shifting again. Mugabe’s people have hinted strongly, for the first time, that farmers can return–at least some of them. This will be some 15 years after the Zimbabwe government began seizing their land.

A few selected white farmers will be granted security of tenure on farms regarded to be ‘of strategic economic importance.’ Meanwhile black beneficiaries are expected to start paying a small rental fee per acre that will be used in part to compensate the more than 4,000 evicted white farmers according to the country’s minister of lands, Douglas Mombeshora.
Posted by:badanov

#8  What's the over-under in terms of the tribals killing off or chasing away the people that feed them if they come back... 18 months?

Racism is racism - be it black or white.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-08-05 16:39  

#7  Hope Rantburger F.B. Hard hangs on to his estate.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-08-05 08:03  

#6  Prediction: a large contingent of Chinese farmers are in their future. Well connected ones.
Posted by: ed in texas   2015-08-05 07:22  

#5  If I was one of these farmers, I'd say "I'll wait until all you bastards starve/emigrate to avoid starvation, and then come back.".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-08-05 04:49  

#4  A few selected white farmers will be granted security of tenure on farms regarded to be ‘of strategic economic importance.’

Unfortunately, the safari business and guide remittances are a bit off following the Cecil episode. Many of the white farmers killed defending their properties, or died whilst living elsewhere, will likely not be able to participate in Mugabe's new programme. Still others may simply do as 'Uncle Ron' did and tell President for life Mugabe to FOAD.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-08-05 01:27  

#3  Like those farmers are getting younger, and they have been doing nothing, just waiting to come back?
Posted by: gorb   2015-08-05 01:15  

#2  'Bad Luck'
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-08-05 00:28  

#1  What's sad is that somebody will fall for this NEP rehash.
Posted by: charger   2015-08-05 00:24  

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