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From ready to govern to preparing to govern - Land policy
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
August 08, 2008
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The
Movement for Democratic Change is and remains a people's project,
with the strategic objective of completing the business of the struggle
for national liberation. Over the next few days, we will provide
the various policy position of the party, indicative of our readiness
and preparedness to govern in accordance with the best interests
of the majority of our people. Our struggle is not merely a struggle
against, but it is most importantly a struggle for an ideal.
With this alert,
we provide our policy position on the Land Question in Zimbabwe
and also provide how we will attend to the issue.
In this alert,
please find our Lands and Agrarian Reform Policy, and our Agricultural
Recovery Strategy.
Lands
and agrarian reform policy
Resolving the
land question once and for all to ensure that no Zimbabwean will
ever go hungry again
Vision
A New Zimbabwe
where the land conflict is resolved once and for all and land as
a finite economic development resource, is equitably distributed
and productively utilized making Zimbabwe the regional bread-basket
in land use and agricultural production.
Values
for MDC Land Reform Policy
The MDC's core
values on land reform are:
1. Food security
and job creation.
2. Equity and equality
3. Transparency
4. Accountability
5. Justice
6. Fairness
7. Integrity
8. Sustainability and productive land use
The
MDC Land Policy
The MDC's Land
Reform Programme will be based on the matrix that recognizes the
country's unfortunate colonial history of plunder and wastage and
the need to deal with historical injustices. In this regard, the
MDC takes note of the acquisitions of land that have been done by
the Zanu PF regime between 2000 and 2006. That land reform was chaotic
and outside the rule of law.
That being the
case, the MDC must rationalize the situation by ensuring that there
will be no return to the pre-2000 status nor will the present regime
of wastage, corruption, under utilization and multi-ownership be
preserved.
To undertake
this rationalization, the MDC will through an Act of Parliament
establish a Land Commission whose mandate is to:
- Carry out
an independent audit of land to establish the physical and legal
status of all holdings.
- Based on
the principle of allocating land to all Zimbabweans irregardless
of one's political affiliation, gender and/or race; one-man-one
farm; need and ability, implement and coordinate a rational and
participatory all inclusive and well planned resettlement programme.
- Design and
define the recommended minimum and maximum land holdings per region.
- Ensure the
enactment of laws that guarantee the ownership of one household
per one land holding.
- Introduce
an equitable Land Tax to discourage land wastage and multiple
farm ownership
- Carefully
manage the transition to a people driven and human centred land
market.
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