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One man, one farm: President PRESIDENT Mugabe has ordered top Zanu-PF officials with multiple farms to relinquish them within two weeks. The President issued the directive yesterday during a Zanu-PF Politburo meeting at the party’s headquarters in Harare. Zanu-PF secretary for information and publicity, Cde Nathan Shamuyarira, said the President made reference to a preliminary report prepared by the Presidential Land Review Committee chaired by Dr Charles Utete, which indicated that a number of people in the party’s top hierarchy had multiple farms. "President Mugabe said he would not allow people to have more than one farm. He advised those with multiple farms to choose one and give up the rest to the Government for resettlement," said Cde Shamuyarira. The Presidential Land Review Committee was appointed by President Mugabe in April this year and was supposed to have finished examining the land reform and resettlement programme last month. However, the committee requested another two-weeks to finalise its report. The report is now expected to be ready by mid-August. The committee was expected to assess the progress achieved so far in the implementation of the land reform programme as a whole and establish the extent to which the programme’s objectives and principles have been achieved and implemented. It was also expected to outline remaining challenges and constraints in the ongoing implementation of the land reform programme in order to provide a holistic approach to the agrarian reform agenda and recommend concrete and programme enhancing ways of adequately and effectively addressing any administrative and material shortcomings. Its other tasks were to verify the implementation of the A1 and A2 resettlement with the attendant concern of the provision of agricultural inputs and support services for the optimal use of resettled land. The committee was expected to gauge the productive capacity of the resettled farmers and agree on measures necessary to ensure targeted production for each province. President Mugabe has in the past said that no person should own more than one farm and that the Government was committed to the "one man, one farm" policy. Other issues that were discussed at yesterday's Politburo meeting include the current cash and fuel shortages. Cde Shamuyarira said the Politburo expressed satisfaction with a number of measures that were suggested by the Cabinet Taskforce set up on Tuesday to deal with the shortage of cash. He said the taskforce was urged to expeditiously implement the measures in order to lessen the difficulties that people were having in obtaining cash from banks. On the fuel situation, the Ministry of Energy and Power Development gave the current situation regarding the supply of fuel to the country and informed the Politburo of measures that were being taken to rectify the problem. The meeting also discussed the impending mayoral and urban council elections scheduled for August 30 and 31. The
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