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Home > Zimbabwe: Mugabe wants to force banks to fund resettled black farmers

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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 02:00
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Land & land rights [2]
Issue Number: 
237 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Zimbabwe's Agriculture Minister Joseph Made says the Harare government is considering enacting new legislation to force the country's banks to finance black villagers resettled on land seized from whites. Speaking to ZimOnline at the weekend, Made accused commercial banks of ganging up to sabotage President Robert Mugabe's controversial land reforms by refusing to advance loans to blacks allocated land by the government.

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Global South [4]
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Country: 
Zimbabwe [6]

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