Zimbabwe Starts Compensating White Farmers 25 Years After Land Seizures

zimbabwe starts compensating white farmers 25 years after land seizures

Step is requirement for restructuring countrys debt, including new IMF programme Zimbabwe has started to make compensation payments to white former farm owners, 25 years after Robert Mugabes government began confiscating land. The government paid 3.1m 2.3m to a first batch of 378 farms, the ministry of finance said in a on Wednesday, the first payout under a 2020 agreement to pay 3.5bn in compensation.