By Farai Mutsaka
A group representing many of the white farmers whose land was seized during Zimbabwe’s land reforms over two decades ago has rejected a compensation deal and said it wants to reopen negotiations with the government.
The group has criticized the compensation that some farmers have accepted as “token” amounts.
There was little sign Wednesday that the government of the southern African nation would reopen talks. It has said the compensation deal represents closure.
About 4,000 white farmers lost their homes and swaths of land when the Black-majority country’s then-president, Robert Mugabe, launched the redistribution program in 2000. Mugabe pointed to the need to address colonial-era land inequities after the southern African nation gained independence from white minority rule in 1980.
Zimbabwe’s finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, last week announced that the government had started paying compensation to white farmers who lost land and property during the reforms. He said the government had approved the
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