'Zanu-PF land policy U-turn insincere'

The opposition MDC-T yesterday dismissed Zanu-PF's land policy U-turn saying the latest decision to allow indigenous farmers to enter contract farming with white former commercial farmers appeared suspicious and had come rather too late.

Lands minister Douglas Mombeshora announced the new policy at State function in Mashonaland West Province last week.

In a statement yesterday, MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu said the policy announcement was meant to be a damage control exercise to correct the harm caused by the ruling party's chaotic land reform programme launched in 2000.