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The Guardian - UK
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Rachel Savage in Johannesburg

Zimbabwe starts compensating white farmers 25 years after land seizures

Black people in farmland with sign saying: Welcome the JM Tongogara Farm
Independence war veterans rename Parklands Farm, near Harare, in March 2000 after the liberation war commander Josiah Tongogara. Photograph: Paul Cadenhead/AFP/Getty Images

Zimbabwe has started to make compensation payments to white former farm owners, 25 years after Robert Mugabe’s government began confiscating land.

The government paid $3.1m (£2.3m) to a “first batch” of 378 farms, the ministry of finance said in a statement on Wednesday, the first payout under a 2020 agreement to pay $3.5bn in compensation.

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