Harare - Zimbabwe will issue 99-year leases to white farmers, according to a government circular, after new President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he would end discrimination along racial lines in ...

During a meeting with South Africa’s president, President Trump played the video as evidence of racial persecution. A Times analysis found he misrepresented the contents of the video.

The fallout from Zimbabwe’s land reform continues, as a group of war veterans challenges a compensation plan for displaced white farmers.

Dr Christian Thierfelder, a principal cropping systems agronomist at CIMMYT, a non-profit agricultural international organisation, says that traditionally, research in Africa is done at the station and farmers were rarely involved. He says the result of that research is often not applicable to their circumstances and contexts.

For Rory Duncan, a former commercial farmer in Zimbabwe, memories of the Eastern Highlands are both vivid and painful - a haunting contrast between prosperity

The war veterans Pressure Group Trust has declared the decision unconstitutional, and rightly so in our view. Land, a finite resource, has always been an emotive issue in this country. In 1890, the British buccaneer and mining magnate Cecil John Rhodes sponsored more than 200 whites to invade this country and hoist the Union Jack.

The fringe group that planted the seed for some of Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that South Africa is persecuting White farmers saw years of lobbying US politicians pay off.