Zimbabwe to Fund White Farmers’ Compensation With Mine Revenue

  • Kuvimba, part-owned by government, to invest in platinum mine
  • Zimbabwe agreed to pay $3.5 billion to farmers driven off land

Workers survey a section of the Darwendale platinum mine project, near Harare, Zimbabwe, in Sept. 2020.

Photographer: Godfrey Marawanyika/Bloomberg
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Zimbabwe plans to use profits from a mining venture to help settle a $3.5 billion compensation claim from white farmers and settle a two-decade dispute that’s soured the country’s relations with Western nations and global lenders.