{"id":5804,"date":"2015-08-24T08:40:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T06:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2015-08-24T08:40:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T06:40:20","slug":"zims-white-farmers-brace-themselves-for-more-land-grabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zims-white-farmers-brace-themselves-for-more-land-grabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Zim\u2019s white farmers brace themselves for more land grabs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Zimbabwe government took a major step towards eliminating the once-thriving white \u00adcommercial farming sector this week by gazetting 23 of the remaining 300 farms owned by white Zimbabweans for \u00adexpropriation.<\/p>\n

The planned seizures in the Matabeleland North and South provinces were announced despite an admission by Robert Mugabe\u2019s ruling Zanu-PF party that it had failed to compensate more than 96% of white farmers already dispossessed since 2000, regardless of a constitutional obligation to do so.<\/p>\n

Lands and Rural Resettlement Minister Douglas Mombeshora refused to comment on Tuesday. But he told Zimbabwe\u2019s state media that \u201cthis is an ongoing programme which started in 2000 under the land reform programme. There\u2019s nothing new here. In fact, farms are being acquired every day and redistributed because all agricultural land belongs to the state.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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The Zimbabwe government took a major step towards eliminating the once-thriving white \u00adcommercial farming sector this week by gazetting 23 of the remaining 300 farms owned by white Zimbabweans for \u00adexpropriation. The planned seizures in the Matabeleland North and South provinces were announced despite an admission by Robert Mugabe\u2019s ruling Zanu-PF party that it had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,4722,503,3030,4626,2058,427,257,254,4693,4686,421],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commercial-farming","tag-douglas-mombeshora","tag-farmers","tag-land-grabs","tag-land-reform-programme","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}