Zimbabwe brings the first payment of the compensation to white farmers across land attacks

Harare, Zimbabwe – Harare, Zimbabwe (AP) – Zimbabwe He says he began to pay for fees with white farmers who lost land and property more than 20 years ago in controversial and often violent attackers on attacks, a shift will hope for a deadlock.

Finance Minister Mthuli NCube said the government approved $ 3.1m payment, the first payment of such a payment under a A job was signed between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and described in the White Farmers 2020. Years.

In the statement this week, the NCube said the amount is equivalent to 1% of the total requirement for $ 311 million. He said that 740 farms were approved for compensation, with 378 benefits from the first series of payment.

About 4,000 white farmers lost their homes and sovare countries when Earth with black majority, the then president, Robert Mugabe, He started a frequent-chaotic program redistribution in 2000. years.

Mugabe, who died in 2019. years, justified delonifications about the need to solve the injustice of the country of colonial era after the southern African nation Independence from the rules of white minorities 1980. years.

Several thousand farmers owned most premiere land in the country before the land reform, which saw about 300,000 black families relocated on the acquired country, is stated on government data.

The Fee for former white farmers It is not for the country, but for infrastructure such as buildings, wells and irrigation equipment.

According to the agreement, farmers would receive 1% of its claim in cash, and the balance was settled through the issuance of treasury bonds. The government issued cash registers on the first series of farmers last week, said NCUBE.

In February, the Government also paid the $ 20 million from Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and several countries in Eastern Europe as a compensation regarding the Land Reform Program, despite bilateral agreements that protect such assets from attacks.

Compensation payments are part of the conditions for the resolution of debt and the international re-engagement of Zimbabwe after years of sanctions and insulation by the United States and other Western countries.

The USA and the European Union said sanctions on Zimbabwe and dozens of their officials, citing human rights abuses that often involved violent attacks on white farmers and seizures their countries. These measures were gradually mitigated over the years, although Mnangagwa and some members of his internal circle remain under sanctions.

Mnangagwa showed signs of approaching with the US, supporting some of the controversial decisions of the President Donald Trump. In February, he supported Trump moves to deport undocumented migrants. Last week, he offered Trump’s sharp tariff regime and said Zimbabwes would reduce the tariffs on us imported goods in zero “in the spirit of building mutual useful and positive relationships.”