By Derick Tsimba

More than 365 000 families that have benefited from the Land Reform Programme have a secured tenure as Land Reform is not reversible, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa said this at the recent funeral service for the former President Robert Mugabe, held at the National Sports Stadium.

“Today, over 365 000 families have benefited from the Land Reform Programme which our Revolutionary Icon, led from the front. Allow me to state that, our Land Reform will never be reversed. It is sacred; complete and finished. We remain firm and unshakable on the matter,” said the President.

The President also said the former President had managed to tackle the land question which had been occupied by settlers for over a century.

“Beyond political independence, he boldly tackled the age-old national question that of our land, which had been occupied by settlers for over a century. To him this was ‘the grievance of all grievances.’ As a result of his unflinching stance, the land has now been reunited with the people, and the people with their land,” he said.

President Mnangagwa said the challenge that remained was for the agriculture processes to be productive and modernised.

“Now the challenge for us, is to be productive as we modernise and mechanise our agriculture processes. We must equally use our land sustainably, be it in agriculture, mining or tourism, so that we bequeath it to future generations,” said President Mnangagwa.