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Mugabe's cabinet approves white farmer compensation plans
The main farmers’ union says some ex-farmers are now elderly and destitute.
ZIMBABWE, Harare - President Robert Mugabe's cabinet has approved plans to make new black farmers pay rent on the farms they've been given so that money can be raised to compensate white farmers.
It's been 15 years since the land takeovers were launched, and the main farmers' union says some ex-farmers are now elderly and destitute.
Lands Minister Douglas Mombeshora told the Herald newspaper that commercial farmers will pay annual fees of five US dollars per hectare, while plot holders will pay a flat fee of 15 US dollars per year.
But the money raised won't go just towards compensating the farmers: the authorities also want to use it to run land audits to check who is on the new farms.
The problem may be collecting the money: reports say that rural councils are already owed hundreds of thousands of dollars by new farmers in unpaid taxes.
The Commercial Farmers' Union says the losses which include homes, immoveable assets and farm equipment could run up to 10 billion US dollars.
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