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Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa reportedly admitted that the country's controversial agrarian reform program under former President Robert Mugabe's government was causing serious shortages of "agricultural productivity".
According to the Daily News, Mnangagwa He stated, however, that land grabbing was "a thing of the past".
Mnangagwa stated that the few remaining white farmers were now secure, as the government had granted them longer leases in recent months.
He said that if agrarian reforms were "right or wrong" was now "history" as they reached their goal of repairing colonial injustices on earth.
The president also badured the white farmers that the violent scenes that were observed at the height of the agrarian reforms will not be repeated under his administration, reported the private newspaper New Zimbabwe.com.
Mnangagwa called on the remaining few white farmers to work with his government as the country headed for a crucial election on July 30.
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Thousands of white commercial farmers and their employees were displaced and left without sources of income during the accelerated agrarian reforms that were orchestrated by the Mugabe administration in 2000.
According to the CFU, more 4,000 white farmers were affected by often violent agricultural invasions.
Some of the white farmers who were expelled from their properties during agrarian reforms have now established the base in neighboring countries such as Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia.
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