Mujuru offers compensation to former farm owner

FORMER Vice-President Joice Mujuru yesterday met the former owner of her Alamein Farm, also known as Ruzambo Farm, and offered to privately compensate for all infrastructural improvements made at the property.

Mujuru and the previous farm owner, Guy Watson-Smith, met at a London hotel where the parties discussed modalities for compensation, amid reports that the latter was demanding $1,47 million for infrastructure developments.

The opposition Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) leader inherited the Beatrice farm in 2011 following the death of her husband, Retired General Solomon Mujuru, who had grabbed it at the height of the land reform programme in 2001.

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