Marleen Dekker in Trouw on the compensation of white farmers in Zimbabwe

Marleen Dekker was interviewed in Trouw about the Zimbabwean government's promise to start compensating white farmers, including 80 Dutch farmers, who were driven off their land at the start of this century. The question is why white farmers will be compensated now, and where the money for compensation will come from. In the article, Marleen Dekker argues that the farmers will not be compensated for the land that they lost, because this land had been unlawfully taken, but rather for the investments in dams, irrigation systems and grain silos.

Read the article (in Dutch).