President Mnangagwa has offered 99-year leases to white farmers to help rebuild the economy
The 99-year leases are to replace the five-year renewable leases brought about by Mugabe after the violent land reform of the 2000s which brought the agriculture-dominated economy of the former “Breadbasket of Africa” to its knees.
The new president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has stated that he wants white farmers forced out of the country to return and to help rebuild the economy with foreign investors and other donors.
| Emmerson Mnangagwa Among those carefully considering a return is Dave Joubert, 69, who ran a wildlife conservancy on 30,000 hectares in Matabeleland, western Zimbabwe. He now owns a butchery whole-saler in Howick, in neighbouring South Africa. He said that his adult children, a son and a daughter, were eager and glad to resurrect the family business, which they abandoned without even taking their furniture 15 years ago. |
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