Zimbabwe makes first compensation payments to white farmers over land grabs

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1. “However, the majority of former farmers have not signed up to the deal, and are still holding onto their title deeds.

   The government has only agreed to compensate former farm owners for “improvements” made on the land and refused to pay for the land itself, arguing it was unfairly seized by colonialists.”

   So not really letting the title holders actually have their legal land back for use. That still doesn’t really seem fair.

2. When the farm was initially bought, assuming that the current deed holder isn’t the actual colonist that “stole” the plot, that mortgage, what improvements was that mortgage burden paying for? 5 strand barbed wire fences & gates, a couple of buildings and cattle grids? The unpaved roads and and a borehole? For millions of dollars? Those improvements?

   How many of those claimants are still alive and have fight left in them, I wonder?

3. Fact that western nations put sanctions on for the farmland grabs by govt, doesn’t matter If farmers were colonists or farmers bought farms from them or non cultivate land, is shocking.

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