Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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13 Jan, 2021

Zimbabwe’s Land Reform Faces a New Test

10 July, 2025
Guy Watson-Smith on his farm in Zimbabwe before it was seized by land invaders in 2001 [Courtesy of Guy Watson-Smith]

Guy Watson-Smith on his farm in Zimbabwe before it was seized by land invaders in 2001 [Courtesy of Guy Watson-Smith]

Zimbabwe’s government has declared that those who acquired land from white commercial farmers during the country’s land reform programme must now help raise funds to compensate the former owners—or risk losing their properties.

Al Jazeera.