Cde Editor, a h , ah , I hear no good from Charles Tuffs . He is insinuating that Zimbabweans , particularly blacks have to compensate former Boers who suffered our land reform Tsunami. He is provoking our revolutionary spirit and national debate on whether Zimbabwe should compensate the Boers beyond on improvements only as per our constitution or law. It that is how he wants to be understood , then Nehanda forbid. It seems to me that the Boers are reading our new President trajectory and interpretation differently. That is not what our new President implied in the compensation policy. This , he also clarified at the Extraordinary Congress. We know and will always be clear on what ``we died`` for during our armed liberation struggle. The Lancaster House Narrative and understanding was that the US/UK would provide funds to compensate Boers who held colonial land tenure. It is not acceptable for our government to tax us to compensate Boers on the actual land itself . Nada , nada, ! Yaa , if UK/US/EU can raise donor funds to compensate the Boers , then we will say , ndizvo, ndizvo. Yes there are other ways of unlocking the land value instead of selling it to few who have the capital. Long viable leases can do for now. The future generation(s) can always improve the tenure system.

Well said well said I hope all of this is sincere

We can say whatever we want, the war of liberation was fought to take back our land that had been forcefully taken without compensation. If anything, compensation should begin with the African indigenous people being compensated for the abuse and deprivation of their properties and dignity under the white settler regime. We cannot talk about the healing and cleansing of the ills of the 80s on Gukurahundi before we thoroughly engage on the redressing of the imbalances created by the Rhodesians. Charles Tuffs was a Rhodesian who benefited from an evil system. He still speaks like one considering where he wants compensation and property rights to begin. It is safe to assume that he believes land was taken away from "them" by the black government and for us to gain international credibility, we must accept that he and his ilk be compensated for land as well as improvements on it. It's a very patronizing attitude that this Tuffs guy is exhibiting here. Land belongs to all of us and that which was compulsorily acquired must equally be distributed. No compensation other than what was agreed on before, that of improvements only should be entertained. We are done with the issue of compensation. We won't be cowered into surrendering our sovereignty for FDI and economic emancipation that will in any case benefit the same persons that robbed us before. The issue of land is not negotiable Charles Tuffs and the new dispensation knows that too well.