Zimbabwe plans massive land nationalisation

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Harare - Zimbabwe's government plans to nationalise farmland by cancelling the titles to all productive land and replacing them with 99-year leases, a senior cabinet minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

"In the end all land shall be state land and there will be no such thing called private land," Lands Minister John Nkomo told the state-owned Herald.

"We want a situation whereby this very important resource becomes a national asset," he said.

"The state should not waste time and money on acquisitions. Ultimately, all land shall be resettled as state land," Nkomo said.

Four years ago Zimbabwe embarked on a controversial land reform program that saw the seizure of thousands of white-owned farms that were handed over to landless blacks.

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