The Land Reform programme that took place after Mugabe had come into into caused serious outrage. Several years later, the white farmers who had their land repossessed where still seeking compensation. Since the beginning of the land reform program in 1980, the white farmers are finally receiving compensation, as was agreed in 2019.
As a way of resolving this dispute, the government gave former white farmers shares in the state-linked Kuvimba Mining House LTD. Andrew Pascoe, president of The Commercial Farmers Union of Zimbabwe, applauded this move saying that it showed the state’s commitment to resolving the land dispute.
In an interview on Wednesday 23 June 2021, Pascoe revealed that the $1 million transferred to white farmers by Kuvimba Mining House ltd is the first of the compensation amount received. The total fee amounts to $3 billion. Payment of the compensation is said to have been delayed as a result of the effects of the coronavirus.
The resolving of this conflict is likely to mend relations with multilateral lenders and the US and Europe who had imposed sanctions on the country as a result of the land grab.
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