Zim white farmers who lost their farms 'may soon be compensated'

The Zimbabwean government has reportedly set up a committee that will spearhead the process of compensating white farmers whose farms were seized during the country's controversial land reform programme. 

Sources say, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration appointed the Permanent Secretary of the Land and Agriculture Ministry, Ringson Chitsiko, to chair the committee until October next year. 

The development came just a few weeks after some of the evicted white farmers demanded a nine billion dollar pay-out for assets expropriated during the land redistribution programme. 

The Financial Gazette, quoted sources as saying that the compensation claim has since been tabled before President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

SOURCE: NEWS24
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