MDC-T wants its party supporters to benefit from land reform

A senior MDC-T official wants his party's supporters to benefit from the land reform programme saying they now realise its irreversibility.

Sen Femai complained to Lands, Land Reform and Resettlement Minister Herbert Murerwa during a question and answer session in the House last week that some people got vast pieces of land during land reform, leaving those aligned to the MDC-T with no land.

The MDC discouraged its supporters from taking up land during the programme, saying they would hand the land back to white farmers in they event they attained power.

"What are they going to do because some of us do not have any land?" he said.

"My question is that, what is the Minister going to do or what is in the pipeline so that every Zimbabwean would own at least a minimum of 500 hectares so that the land would be adequate?"

Minister Murerwa said he was heartened to learn that the MDC-T now supported the land reform programme.

Murerwa said the land audit that was supposed to be undertaken as provided for by the Global Political Agreement could not start because of lack of funds.