CFU vice president Louis Fick said the union was working with civil rights group AfriForum to rehabilitate hundreds of South African farmers left homeless after President Robert Mugabes controversial land reform programme.
We have basically been tasked to get a list of applicants ready and there are basically two options: (1) SA nationals who would like to relocate to SA (Old age home) and apply for a pension, and (2) SA nationals who would like to remain in Zimbabwe and apply for pension (No home options), Fick said in a notice to CFU members.
He said details of the pension scheme were still being worked out.
South African nationals dispossessed of their farms in Zimbabwe have been seeking official engagements between Harare and Pretoria to resolve the issue of compensation for land seized under Mugabes land reform programme.
CFU vice president Louis Fick is himself a South African national who was dispossessed of his Friedewil Farm in the Lions Den area.
A group representing the South African farmers seized a Cape Town property belonging to the Zimbabwean government in March demanding compensation for land seized by Mugabe.
Civil rights group AfriForum described the attachment of the Cape Town property as the start of a “civil sanctions” campaign against Mugabe’s government.
The attachment followed Februarys decision by the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to register the 2008 rulings of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal in favour of the farmers.
The Zimbabwe government has refused to recognise the jurisdiction of the Windhoek-based SADC Tribunal, saying the statutes establishing the regional court had not yet been ratified by a required two-thirds majority of SADC’s 15 member states.
At least 244 South African farmers are contesting the expropriation of their farms by the Zimbabwe government.
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