Zimbabwe to return some white-owned farms it seized under Mugabe

[Reuters]

Zimbabwe to return some white-owned farms it seized under Mugabe

Zimbabwe will return 67 farms seized from foreigners from four European countries covered by bilateral investment pacts, the country's agriculture minister said.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

look ma, we aren't racist idiots,
can we get some pity money now?

 

[WaxLyrical]

Can they still call it a "farm"

 

[zerocool2009]

To little to late! Sad actually

 

[Gordon_R]

nationals from Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands as they were covered by the bilateral investment protection agreements.

I guess British citizens are going to wait a lot longer...

 

[Fulcrum29]

So... what do the bilateral investment pacts entail?

 

[borro]

This is a white-typed message. Nice time on the farm town

 

[Bad Ballie]

Can they still call it a "farm"

All of them have failed and are now subsistence farms from what I hear. Will likely take years to rehabilitate the soils to the point where is produces decent crops again.

 

[wbot]

Do they want it back?

 

[rustypup]

Will likely take years to rehabilitate the soils to the point where is produces decent crops again.

This cannot be highlighted enough.

A farm isn't an engine. You don't just turn it off then on again.

The time and investment required to get it to a productive state is significant. Good luck finding someone willing to take all that risk in a country that has already proven political capital is worth more than rationality or the good of the voting populace.

They took functional farms and destroyed them for short term gains. They will do so again. TIA. Responsible, rational, governance is not an Africa thing.

 

[DarkStarMonday]

Land ? In Zim ? Not even worth a loaf of bread or KFC streetwise.

 

[JustAsk]

Idiots.

Giving away your own land to the world's biggest looters

...you've been tricked...again

 

[gregmcc]

I dont think the owners want it back after the land has been screwed up and the only think growing there now is weeds.

 

[Jam Sandwich]

Idiots.

Giving away your own land to the world's biggest looters

...you've been tricked...again

Lol..
Its a tragedy alright...

 

[Jam Sandwich]

What's going to happen here is the farms and land will be brought back up to productive levels and then the government just will want to take it away again.

 

[spiff]

why now? - what's the catch?

 

[My_King]

Don't trust it.

50 years from now..."Give back the "stolen" land"

 

[Hemi300c]

What a joke.

 

[Brainrot]

Unacceptable! Compensate the white people with billions of US Dollars each for the human rights violations. Easy as that. They do not want those farms back. Property ownership means nothing there with expropriation without compensation. Keep all sanctions in place indefinitely.

Same here in SA. When they start EWC we need compensation. This is a human rights violation against white minorities. There will be more compensation needed in future for things like AA, BEE and more too. But that is something for another time.

 

[spiff]

didn't juju state again recently how wonderfull EWC worked for zim?