{"id":47343,"date":"2026-10-06T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47343"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:35:15","slug":"zimbabwe-pays-500-million-to-former-white-farmers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwe-pays-500-million-to-former-white-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe pays $500 million to former white farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Zimbabwe has paid just over $500 million to white former commercial farmers as part of the country&#8217;s ongoing efforts to resolve a decades long land dispute and to rebuild investors trust.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The payouts are part of a $3.5 billion global compensation agreement that was signed in 2020.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Government has issued United States Dollar treasury bonds to hundreds of displaced white farmers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The first payments were made in April 2026.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The agreement covers about 4000 commercial farmers. Some of the farmers have rejected the compensation and payment structure.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"x_spanWithBackgroundColor\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8212;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43926,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-47343","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Zimbabwe has paid just over $500 million to white former farmers","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47344,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47343\/revisions\/47344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}