Zimbabwe nationalises all farmland (The Independent.co.uk)

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=529558


Zimbabwe nationalises all farmland in 'return to feudalism'

By Basildon Peta Southern Africa Correspondent

09 June 2004

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In an announcement in the state owned Herald newspaper, John Nkomo, the Special Affairs Minister in the President's office in charge of Land Reform and Resettlement, ordered all private land owners to give up their land to the government immediately. He said they can then apply to the government for permission to lease the land.

He did not say when the nationalisation process would be completed. "In the end all land shall be state land and there will be no such thing called private land," Mr Nkomo said. "It will now be the state which will enable the utilisation of the land for national prosperity."

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The decision to nationalise all land is being seen as the final nail in the coffins of all the 4,000-plus white farmers whose land had already been seized but had been hoping to somehow get it back. This will no longer be possible as it is now classified as state land. The few remaining white farmers, estimated at fewer than 400, would have to give up their land with no hope of getting it back. It is highly unlikely that Mugabe would consider giving leases to any white farmers since he has been compulsorily taking their land and driving them out of the country.

The move also means the legal process of serving notices of acquisition of properties on farmers is no longer necessary as they simply forfeit their land to the state.

Mr Nkomo said the government did not need to "waste time and money" in disputes with white farmers on seizures of individual farms whose owners held title deeds which they used in the courts to fight the seizures of their properties.


Well, isn't that special.

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1. All I can say about this nonsense is that when all these people

start to starve to death, they won't get any help from anyone until they throw out their nutcase leader. We aren't going to "waste time and money" on idiots. We've got enough of them here to waste time and money on.