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Zimbabwe: Some seized farms given to children─── 14:13 Tue, 10 Jun 2014
Harare - An audit of Zimbabwe's controversial land reforms has revealed that children as young as ten were allocated farms seized from white farmers.
State media reports the audit found that policy regulations had been flouted by some people who acquired more than one farm and registered them in their children's names.
The Herald newspaper quoted Lands and Resettlement Minister Douglas Mombeshora as saying the fraudulent allocations came to light during an interim audit to determine farm ownership and productivity on the farmland.
President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party launched the land reforms in 2000, taking over white-owned farms to resettle landless blacks.
Critics of the reforms have blamed the programme for low production on the farms as the majority of the beneficiaries lacked the means and skills to work the land.
Sapa
