Zimbabwe: Land Reform - White Farmers Given 5-Year Leases, While Blacks Get 99 Years

29 October 2017

President Robert Mugabe continues to tighten the screws on the remaining white farmers as government has come up with a potentially discriminatory policy which limits their leases to just five years while black counterparts will enjoy 99-year long leases.

This comes 17 years after the violent and unplanned land reform programme which saw the majority of white farmers chased off their properties without compensation.

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