The country's new constitution, adopted in 2013, included a provision to compensate the white farmers who were evicted, particularly for the improvements they had made on their farms. "Cruel irony"Chinamasa said land rentals and levies paid by the beneficiaries of the land reforms would be used to compensate the white farmers. According to the Zimbabwe Farmers Union, a group of mostly black farmers, compensation for the white farmers must relate to land development and assets, not the land itself. "The new (black) farmers must be levied and this levy should used to pay the white farmers. According to van Buuren, all 12 white farmers in the Burma Valley area lost their land in the reform programme.

Source: The Star October 31, 2016 15:24 UTC