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Original Post Date: 2011-01-17 Time: 07:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
Zanu-PF has recommended that government revokes all land clauses on farms covered by the Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (BIPPAs) amid revelations that the party is planning to resettle more people on the remaining farms owned by foreign countries.
The move comes at a time when 13 Dutch farmers have approached a United States federal court in a bid to get compensation for assets that were seized in Zimbabwe.
A group of 79 former white commercial farmers has also sought to attach state properties in other countries after they were disposed of their properties by the government as part of the agrarian reforms.
ZANU-PF has since 2000, when it launched its chaotic land reform exercise, violated BIPPAs entered into with several countries, including neighbouring South Africa.
A report in possession of this newspaper shows that 116 farms covered under BIPPA pacts were parcelled out to more than 4 000 indigenous farmers and no compensation for both the land and improvements has been paid out.
Of the 166 foreign-owned farms, 38 were repossessed from Switzerland and Netherlands, 12 from Italy and eight from Germany.
They were allocated to Model A1 black farmers.
Netherlands went on to lose 18 farms, Germany 15, Italy and Malaysia eight, while Switzerland and Demark lost seven and two farms respectively, which were used to resettle Model A2 farmers.
A report compiled by ZANU-PF’s Land Reform, Resettlement and Agriculture Committee recommended that the party should press ahead with the takeover of the remaining 37 farms under BIPPA.
“Land acquisition and redistribution is an ongoing process, which should continue, given the incremental demand for land. Therefore, government should continue to acquire land as provided for in the constitution,” said the party’s Lands Reform and Resettlement and Agriculture department headed by Ignatius Chombo, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development.
“No foreigner should be allowed to own rural agricultural land in Zimbabwe. Agricultural land should be excluded from the protection afforded by Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements.
“The department of Land Reform and Resettlement and Agriculture resolves to resolutely continue championing and defending policies and programmes that enhance assurance of agricultural productivity and promotion of sustainability in agriculture.”
ZANU-PF also said it was reviewing its 99-year leases so that they can be used as collateral after the realisation that farmers were failing to access loans from the banks because the leases were not being seen as an appropriate guarantee of security of tenure.
It is understood that the Minister of State for Special Affairs responsible for Land and Resettlement Programme, Flora Buka has already come up with changes to the 99-year leases, which are expected to be tabled in cabinet next month once President Robert Mugabe has returned from his annual month long sabbatical.
Only 122 farmers out of the 162 161 new farmers resettled as either A1 or A2 on 6 214 farms measuring almost 11 million hectares have so far been issued with leases.
Original date published: 14 January 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201101170342.html?viewall=1