LAND TENURE STATEMENT SUMMARY

1. All land held by beneficiaries of the Land Reform Programme under 99-year leases, offer letters and permits, will now be held under a bankable, registrable and transferrable more secure document of tenure, to be issued by the Government of Zimbabwe to beneficiaries. As such, beneficiaries of the Land Reform Programme will now have enhanced security of tenure to the land they legitimately hold. 

This new policy will invariably be informed by the following guidelines:

a. Priority will be given to our Veterans of the Liberation Struggle, youths and women;

b. Security of tenure to all agricultural land regularized under this programme, will at all time only be transferrable among indigenous Zimbabweans; and

c. The land targeted for the new land tenure system will exclude communal land that is under the jurisdiction of traditional Chiefs.

2.Urban land will only be made commercially available to credible and approved land developers who will add value to the land in compliance with all relevant laws and protocols. 

Ultilmately, the goal is to establish high quality housing developments in fulfilment of our vision of an upper-middle income society by 2030. 

Areas that are not in use within cities will be considered for urban development. Urban renewal, urban transformation and regularization will also be given priority.

These agricultural and urban land measures will have a huge impact on our economic growth, and will unlock the full value of the land while enhancing the performance of our economy. 

This will facilitate accelerated investments in agriculture and associated value chains, which include irrigation, dam construction, power supply and rural road construction.

The economic value enhancement on land will further unlock resources for the fulfilment of Constitutional obligations related to land reform. 

All these measures will complement current efforts towards an upper middle-income economy, which will be achieved by 2030.

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