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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Farai Mutsaka

Zimbabwe launches new land policy to empower Black farmers with direct farm ownership

Zimbabwe Capital Punishment - (AP)

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday launched a new policy that will allow beneficiaries of land taken from white people under contentious land reforms to sell it and to be able to borrow from banks using it as collateral.

This marks a major shift in Zimbabwe's land policy. Previously, the resettled farmers couldn't transfer ownership of land.

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