RESTITUTION / COMPENSATION COMMUNIQUE

JUSTICE FOR AGRICULTURE – 

RESTITUTION / COMPENSATION COMMUNIQUE
SPECIAL LAND DEBATE FORUM

DATED 27 MARCH 2014
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1.  Ben Freeth response to Robin Hartley

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ALL FARMERS please take special note and diarise :

 

MillsFitchet SA’s meeting with farmers will take place at the Italian Club, Quendon Road, Sentosa, Harare on Wednesday 2nd April 2014, 8.30am for a 9am start.

 

Tea and coffee will be served on arrival and likewise during a mid-morning break.  A light finger lunch will be served and a cash bar will be in operation during lunch.  Should the need arise, the meeting could extend into the afternoon.

 

All farmers are cordially invited, irrespective of Farmer Organisation affiliation.  All matters relating to Restitution / Compensation and Farm Valuations will be openly and frankly addressed, with questions from the floor.

 

Look forward to seeing you all there

 

THE JAG TEAM

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1.  Ben Freeth response to Robin Hartley

 

Dear all,

 

Robin Hartley has got a valid point regarding the centuries old traditional African land tenure systems not being in favour of title and property rights.

 

However, with the end of the cold war; with growing populations; with growing food insecurity; and with growing recognition that property rights are essential if an agricultural revolution is ever to take place on this Continent [which has so much agricultural potential], property rights are now finally being established in a number of African countries – even in communal areas in some of those countries.

 

In many countries in Africa where land was seized by governments, those property rights are now being acknowledged and respected.

 

We must be encouraged by this, and we must continue to stand for a tenure system that has shown itself to work in bringing countries out of poverty and hunger.

 

All the best,

 

Ben    

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