Confusion over Zimbabwean Land Policy

Source from:  tobaccofarmquarterly.com January 25, 2007 01/29/2007

Zimbabwe's remaining white commercial farmers have been told that a lucky few might be able to keep some land, but that the future of farming is for blacks only, according to a UN Integrated Regional Information Networks report. "There are black people still landless out there and, as long as those people remain, we will continue to take farms for resettlement," Land Minister, Dydimus Mutasa, reportedly told the local media. Commercial Farmers' Union spokesperson, Emily Crooks, reportedly said that the Union's membership was unsettled by the minister's statement and that it would be seeking further clarification about it. What he said seemed to be contradicting the government's latest policy of giving land back to white farmers who had reapplied, she added. Enditem