President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Citizens Coalition for Change {CCC} vice president advocate Tendai Biti saying the land reform program is irreversible in Zimbabwe.
Mnangagwa was responding to Biti’s comments concerning white farmers land when CCC attain power.
Posting on his Twitter handle in 2020, the former finance minister said: “reversing the land reform program is a betrayal. What’s not clear about that? But land reform in itself means nothing. Land market must be restored, title must be provided, invasions must stop, multiple owners must be rooted out, farms down sized per region.”
However, addressing Zanu Pf supporters in Kwekwe last Saturday, President Mnangagwa warned Biti saying Zanu Pf will not allow the land to be given back to white farmers.
“I heard Biti saying if they win elections they will give back white farmers their farms, we wont allow something like that to happen in Zimbabwe.
“If you are his relative go and tell him that you have to brew beer so that Legion will go away, we took our land and it will not return to whites again,” he said.
Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) formally began with the Land Acquisition Act of 2002.
The Program, that effectively co-opted the farm occupations since 1998, redistributed land from white-owned farms and estates, as well as state lands, to more than 150,000 farmers under two models, A1 and A2.
The A1 model allocated small plots for growing crops and grazing land to landless and poor farmers, while the A2 model allocated farms to new black commercial farmers who had the skills and resources to farm profitably, reinvest and raise agricultural productivity.
