Zimbabwe Govt Is Downsizing Farms, And the Mugabes Are Not Happy
Bona Mugabe, the daughter of the late former president Robert Mugabe and her husband Simbarashe Mutsahuni have approached the High Court challenging the downsizing of their 1,800-hectare Mazowe farm. This comes after Lands Minister Anxious Masuka published the rural land or farm size regulation amendment 2020 (No 2) (SI 41 of 2020) on February 14, 2020, to facilitate the reduction of commercial sizes, for redistribution to other farmers.
In March 2020, Zimbabwe finalised its land audit, the scope of which included multiple farm ownership, the under-utilisation of land, investments made on parcels of land, and the skills and competencies of the land owners. In mid-2019, Mnangagwa said the audit revealed that Grace Mugabe, the wife of former president Robert Mugabe, owns 16 farms.
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Zimbabwe:
Bona Mugabe, Husband Challenge Farm Grab
New Zimbabwe, 17 June 2021
Late former President Robert Mugabe's daughter, Bona and her husband Simbarashe Mutsahuni have approached the High Court challenging Statutory Instrument SI 41 2020, which resulted… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Agriculture Land Audit Complete
The Herald, 12 March 2020
AN initial report of the second phase of the national agricultural land audit, expected to rationalise farm ownership and sizes countrywide, is now complete and will soon be made… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Govt Reduces Farm Sizes
The Herald, 17 February 2020
Government has streamlined the sizes of all individual farms in the country's five ecological regions, in a move that will see more people having access to land. Read more »
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