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| Zimbabwe's White Farmers Will Get Compensation‐But They're Not Getting Land Back |
| 2017-12-12 |
| [Quarts Africa] Zimbabwe wants to address the chaotic and violent manner in which it took away land from local white farmers nearly 20 years later as new president Emmerson Mnangagwa bids to reassure investors his administration is restoring respect for property rights and investment protection. The agrarian reform, presided over by president Robert Mugabe in 2000, displaced the mostly white commercial farmers without compensation. Mugabe said the policy was earmarked at putting productive land into the hands of black Zimbabweans although most of them were inexperienced and poorly resourced, leading to a fall in agricultural production and leaving the country a net importer of staple maize grain between 2000 and 2016. |
| Posted by:newc |
| #5 “appropriate compensation” Ha, ha Hahahahahahahaha ZimBobBucks, or whatever they are now. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-12-12 19:10 |
| #4 ...any different than scaring off oil field managers and then watch production tumble? There's a common thread there someplace. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-12-12 14:13 |
| #3 Terrorized white farmers off their land. Then wondered why crop harvests fell off the cliff. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2017-12-12 11:11 |
| #2 where's Farmin B. Hard? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-12-12 08:44 |
| #1 ...leading to a fall in agricultural production and leaving the country a net importer of staple maize grain between 2000 and 2016 Socialist put in charge of the Sahara would soon run out of sand (see - Venezuela and oil) |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-12-12 06:36 |