Zimbabwe to pay white farmers $3.5 billion over Mugabe land reforms

Zimbabwean commercial farmer Tommy Bayley rides an old bicycle ahead of war veterans and villagers who invaded his farm Danbury Park, 30 kilometres northwest of Harare, to an abandoned house to use as temporary shelter April 8, 2000. PHOTO | FILE

Harare

Zimbabwe on Wednesday agreed to pay $3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was seized by Robert Mugabe's regime as part of his agrarian reforms in the early 2000s.