Zimbabwe : Farmers wary of Zimbabwe's offer

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A government offer to compensate white Zimbabwean farmers evicted from their land should be treated cautiously, farmers' organisations have said.
Zimbabwe's Land Reform Minister John Nkomo has invited former farmers to claim money for improvements made to the land during their tenure.

The Justice for Agriculture group called the move a "scam", but urged farmers to see what is being offered.

Thousands of farmers have lost their land in the past five years.

The government has always offered to compensate farmers for buildings and any improvements made on their land, but not for the land itself.

It says the UK should pay for the land, as it was the colonial power when laws were passed restricting black ownership of land.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4435901.stm
 
pan, before I get called ignorant-yet again-President Mugabe of Zimbabwe has said that some form of giving farm lands and other lands back to Black Zimbabweans was his and other freedom fighters' (including Joshua Nkomo's (don't know if John is related to him))goal against the then-government of Rhodesia even back then and the white farmers would be compensated in some form?
If so-ain't nothing new.If Joshua Nkomo or the other guy that fought against Rhodesia was elected President-I believe the same thing, maybe in a different form would still be on the table.
 

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