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Article: Sparks fly over land ownership. (new land ownership policy)
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- African Business
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- October 1, 1997
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The government has announced that it will go ahead with controversial plans to ban ownership of land by foreigners and companies and to disallow ownership of more than one farm by individuals. JOHN CHIMUNHU analyses the implications.
President Robert Mugabe recently told parliament that the government will implement the 1994 recommendations for a national land tenure commission by introducing the required legislation before July next year: "The new Land Act will provide for the agricultural land tax and regulations that pertain to minimum farm sizes, adoption of the one-man-one-farm concept and the prohibition of ownership of land by foreigners and companies," said ...