The views relating to this reform are in stark contract to each other. The ex-white farmers who were removed from the land they cultivated are still very bitter as they perceived the move to be very racist and unfair. On the other hand, most Zimbabwean blacks still get triggered by the fact that the government agreed to compensate the farmers for taking back what was rightfully theirs.

These views have even resulted in anger against black influential individuals who have used the term land grab to refer to the reform program. This is because the term is said to portray black Zimbabweans as evil for taking back their property. Tendai Beast Mtawarira has previously come under fire for this very matter.

No doubt, emotions have been triggered yet again. An ex-white farmer, Bernhard von Pezold and his family have enlisted the help of a US federal court in Washington DC. Their intent was to enforce a US$277 million arbitral award against Zimbabwe which they won after their farmland was grabbed by the government.

View some of the details relating to this below:

If the Zimbabwean government returns title, it will owe US$65m, but if it fails, it will owe US$196m, which has ballooned to US$227m. This amount includes US$1m in "moral damages" for the government's refusal to provide the family with police protection against violent takeover.

— TheNewsHawks (@NewsHawksLive) July 27, 2021

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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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Ironic, right?

The Beast has gone throughout his Rugby career almost literally being hailed by Zimbabweans. He was always considered to have represented the country well and flown the flag high.

He played for the infamous Springboks. Mtawarira received 117 caps making him the most capped prop in Springbok history. After helping the team win the record-equaling World Cup title he retired. Of course, Zimbabweans were ecstatic and proud of this player.

However, this time around Zimbabweans were so disappointed in him. The Beast was interviewed on a South African platform and was asked to relate why he was forced to leave Zimbabwe. He stated that his struggle was brought about by the economic challenges and the “land grab” that caused instability that took place during that time.

Zimbabweans on social media expressed that he is bad mouthing the country. Others felt that he had no struggle to refer to since he even learnt at the expensive private school Peterhouse.

View the interview segment below:

https://twitter.com/MdluliNtate/status/1402306377662537729

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When the colonial settlers landed in Zimbabwe in the late 1800s under the guise of missionary work, with the Cecil John Rhodes’s British South Africa Company (BSAC) in tow they chased, hanged, shot and did anything else you can imagine, to the owners of the land for the sake of argument namely the Shona’s and Ndebele amongst other African tribes.

What followed was a systematic enslavement of the owners of the land and an illegal takeover of the indigenous land. White colonialists segregated Africans to the worst part of the land they could find called the reserves (maruzevha) whilst the prime land was shared amongst themselves, we don’t want to sanitise this robbery with the word paid because they pretty much, bought the land for next to nothing, this is the point that many of them argue that it was constitutional, I don’t want to engage in that daft argument at the moment.

For close to 100 years Europeans were enjoying themselves on ‘their’ farms, actually they became very wealthy as a result of this, whilst black people wallowed in poverty on their motherland, the best they could become was a farm worker, or a policeman in Rhodesia, essentially for a century black people did not benefit at all from their land.

During the Lancaster agreement it was agreed that the then British government of Margret Thatcher would compensate the Zimbabwe for the land, but years later the Tony Blair government reneged on that agreement, to cut a long story short it led to the Land Reform programme, which in my opinion could have been handled better.

 Which brings us to the current situation, why are African’s who were deprived from accessing their land for close to a century, now responsible for paying compensation for land which was benefitting colonialists, their argument is that it’s for developments made to their land, well my questions is when are Africans going to be compensated for being excluded from utilising their land for close to a century?

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