Commercial and communal land reform farm beneficiaries will — from 2015 — start paying rentals, with the funds being channelled towards compensating white former farmers who gave way to them.
The rentals will be in addition to the $1 land tax per hectare the new farmers are already paying to rural district councils.
Addressing the Masvingo provincial lands committee on Thursday, Lands and Rural Resettlement Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora said A2 farmers, who are commercial, will part with $3 land rental per hectare per annum and $2 unit tax per hectare annually.
“Cabinet last week approved payment of a land rental by all the beneficiaries of the land reform programme and the Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement will not only collect the land rental from A1 and A2 farmers, but the ministry will also be responsible for collecting unit tax.”…
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