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Zimbabwe regime acknowledge wrongdoings to white ex-farmers now that famine is a reality – Zim will pay $18-million to farmers who were affected by land reform and are now in financial distress

Posted on April 10, 2019 Leave a comment

Zimbabwe next month will start paying partial compensation to white commercial farmers whose properties were seized nearly 20 years ago under Robert Mugabe’s land reforms, the government said Monday.

In a statement, the finance and agriculture ministries said they had budgeted 53-million Zimbabwean dollars ($18-million) in payments to “former farm owners affected by the land reform programme and who are in financial distress.”

More than 4 000 of the country’s 4 500 white farmers were stripped of their land under former president Mugabe’s highly controversial land seizures.

Mugabe justified the land grabs as a way to correct colonial-era land ownership disparities that had favoured whites and to stimulate economic growth for black Zimbabweans.

Critics blame the evictions for a collapse in agricultural production that forced Africa’s one-time bread basket to become dependent on imported food to feed its population.

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Land expropriation in 2019: What’s next for South Africa – The promise of free land in SA has pandered directly to the populist vote and the majority, being led to believe that free land will end the shackles of poverty

Posted on January 16, 2019 Leave a comment

With parliamentary processes ready to resume in 2019, the issue of land expropriation in South Africa enters its final Constitutional hurdle.

Land expropriation without compensation – the loaded term which elicits varied fervent responses from the South African public – will, once again, prove its socio-political impetus in 2019. Last year, the land question divided citizens in spectacular fashion, even provoking a response from US President Donald Trump.

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Two opposite emotional responses lie at the very centre of the land debate; panic and promise. The ruling African National Congress (ANC), supported, in part, by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has openly announced its support of Constitutional amendments to accelerate land reform as a means of practical socioeconomic redress.

The promise of land – free land – has pandered directly to the populist vote. The disenfranchised majority, bei
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Real farm murders statistics for 2018: 460 farm attacks and 64 farm murders – yet SA president says no farmers are being murdered

Posted on January 7, 2019 Leave a comment

From 1 January to 31 December 2018, there were 460 farm attacks and 64 farm murders in South Africa. That equates to one farmer being murdered every 5.7 days and 1.3 farm attacks per day on average.

Whilst the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, and the ANC government is denying the existence of these attacks, the horrific fact is that the white minority are under siege and black leaders are openly calling for the killing of whites.