Govt goes after multiple farm owners

03 Jun, 2019 - 16:06 0 Views
Govt goes after multiple farm owners Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Perrence Shiri

eBusiness Weekly

HARARE – Government has begun a clamp down on people who were allocated multiple farms under the land reform programme, a notice released on Friday shows.
Government revealed that an audit is underway to ensure maximum land utilisation.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is on record saying multiple farm ownership, disregard for maximum farm size, allocation of grazing land and unclear boundaries, among other things, would be addressed by the land audit.
Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Perrence Shiri filed a notice of withdraw land offered to a politician Simbaneuta Mudarikwa.
He cited multiple farm ownership as the reason for withdrawal of the land offer.
“Notice is hereby given that the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement intends to withdraw the offer of land made to you in respect of subdivision 3 measuring 76.50 hectares of Wenimbi farm in the District of Marondera in Mashonaland East Province.
“The reasons for the withdrawal are as follows: You have another farm in Mashonaland Central province and you are subletting subdivision 3 of Wenimbi,” said the Minister.
The historic land reform programme saw the Zimbabwean government, then under former President Robert Mugabe, compulsorily acquire vast tracks of prime agricultural land that were owned by a few white commercial farmers to resettle over 300 000 landless black families.
The agrarian reforms were the primary reason for the West imposing illegal sanctions on Harare, hiding behind alleged lack of rule of law and human rights abuses for the embargo.
Government has, however, embarked on a process to compensate former white commercial farmers for the loss. – New Ziana

 

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