Zimbabwe unveils new land policy to empower Black farmers with transferable farm ownership
Tens of thousands of Black people took over white-owned farms after then-President Robert Mugabe initiated the land reforms in 2000. Mugabe, who died in 2019, justified the reforms as being necessary to redress some of the wrongs of colonialism that put most of Zimbabwe’s fertile land in the hands of a few white people.
Tens of thousands of Black people took over white-owned farms after then-President Robert Mugabe initiated the land reforms in 2000. Mugabe, who died in 2019, justified the reforms as being necessary to redress some of the wrongs of colonialism that put most of Zimbabwe’s fertile land in the hands of a few white people.
