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By James Muonwa
THE MINES Ministry has urged farmers to register their productive land with the ministry to avoid having it designated for mining purposes.
Land conflicts are on the rise across the country between farmers and miners with the latter being accused of invading productive farms for mining purposes, especially for gold and chrome.
However, a senior Mines Ministry official, Nolwazi Muchinguri, said there was legislation allowing farmers to protect their productive land by registering with the ministry and avoid having their properties designated for pegging for mining.
“The farmer only has surface rights, and this means they don’t have rights over minerals underground which are vested in the President of Zimbabwe,” she said.
Job Sikhala
MDC-Alliance legislators yesterday demanded that they be allocated farms under the historic land reform, despite the opposition party consistently denouncing the programme at home and abroad for the last two decades.
The lawmakers told the National Assembly during the ministerial question session that most of them had applied for land, but none had been allocated farms.
Government sharply accelerated land reform in 2000, bringing the bulk of private rural land into State-ownership with the aim of reallocating it on lease, to address inherited colonial land imbalances, to ensure that all land was productively farmed, and to allow the Government to control the creation of over-large estates.
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