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Zimbabwe's Displaced White Farmers'¯Wait for $3.5 Billion Compensation

Columbus Mavhunga

   HARARE, ZIMBABWE - White farmers in Zimbabwe whose land was taken from
   them and redistributed to Blacks have welcomed a $3.5 billion
   compensation plan, which the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa
   hopes will also encourage foreign investment in Zimbabwe's imploding
   economy.

   During the Robert Mugabe era, thousands of commercial farms in Zimbabwe
   were seized from white farmers and redistributed to Black farmers. The
   July reparation deal is for development of the land -- irrigation,
   buildings and dams -- not the land itself -- and amounts to $3.5
   billion.

   Even though Zimbabwe does not currently have the funds, Ben'¯Gilpin, a
   director at the Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union, is hopeful.

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