Caught in a paradoxical situation, Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing the heat over his decision to pay compensation to white commercial farmers
“Our government’s repeated stance that we are paying only for 'improvements' and not the land itself does not make sense,” said Moses Chikowero, a Zimbabwean who is a professor of African History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Precious Shumba, Director of the Harare Residents Trust, a civic society group, said Mnangagwa should slow down on the land issue, accusing him of trying to endear himself to some Western capitals. This sums up the general attitude of most Zimbabweans towards the plight of the white former commercial farmers who fell victim to what they see as a just reversal of a previous land grab.
There was, however, a gradual climb-down from this intransigent position over the years, resulting in the inclusion in the country’s 2013the possibility of compensation payments to the former farmers for developments made on the land, but certainly not for the land itself. to push for a constitutional amendment to remove the clause that provides compensation to these former farm owners.
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