Thousands of white commercial farmers were displaced in Zimbabwe. Picture: 123RF/RIDER FOOT
The offer is for improvements and assets on the more than 4,000 farms that were seized and doesn’t pertain to the land itself, said Ben Gilpin, director of the Commercial Farmers Union . An agreement is yet to be reached. The CFU represents most large-scale farmers in the country. Dispossessed farmers had been seeking $10bn, but that was 15 to 20 years ago. Zimbabwe’s government maintains that the UK, its former colonial power, should help pay the farmers. That’s unlikely to happen because the UK and most Western governments criticised the seizures and the allocation of the properties to senior members of the ruling Zanu-PF party — alongside allegations of human rights abuses.
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