Zimbabwe: Will Zimbabwe President Mugabe Compensate Farm Owners after Decades of Land Grabs?

Apr 1, 2016 | Elsa Buchanan, International Business Times
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After decades of anti-Western rhetoric, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is showing signs of mellowing. Faced with economic wobbles in his drought-stricken nation, the 92-year-old has been warming to the West, and on 16 March he agreed to major reforms that were interpreted by some observers as an incentive to end cash-strapped Zimbabwe's isolation by the West. One of these measures was the introduction of a special fund to pay compensation to 4,800 white and many black owners of between nine and 11 million hectares of land that were seized during Mugabe's controversial 2000 land reform programme.