War Veterans Compensation Zimbabwe

Veterans discharged under conditions other than dishonorable who served in the Southwest Asia theater of military operations which includes the areas specified by regulation but not Afghanistan may be entitled to disability compensation for certain undiagnosed illnesses certain diagnosable chronic disability patterns and certain presumptive diseases as described below even.

War veterans compensation zimbabwe. Some of 11 white farmers remaining in Zimbabwe coming out of court digected after the ruling did go to thier favour at Chegutu magistrate court northwestern Mashonaland West province 100 kilometres 60 miles northwest of Harare11 October 2007 for a trial after they stayed on their properties in defiance of a government eviction order. Zimbabwes late ex-president Robert Mugabe launched land reforms in 2000 grabbing white-owned farms to reverse a historical land ownership imbalance that favoured the white minority population. Muchinguri said it was the duty of the State to take care of the war veterans as set out in the constitution. The war veterans monthly pensions have not been reviewed for a long time and we feel that it needs to be increased in line with the increment that it due to public service members she said noting that Zimbabwes war veterans were poorly paid compared to their counterparts.

Zimbabwe war veterans demand compensation. WAR veterans have written to President Emmerson Mnangagwas government demanding that he shelves his US35 billion compensation pact with white former commercial farmers describing the move as highly discriminatory degrading and akin to selling out the liberation struggle. A group of Zimbabwean liberation war veterans has filed a legal challenge against the governments plans to compensate former white farmers whose properties were seized during controversial land reforms two decades ago. Mnangagwa last month signed the global compensation agreement with white former farmers displaced during the countrys 2000 land reform programme.

Zimbabwe liberation war veterans sue government over plan to compensate white farmers. The War 124 Zimbabwes war veterans. Tax free pensions of Z2000 a month were also conceded. Zimbabwes government is offering four thousand US dollars to compensate war veterans for unpaid pensions but some veterans consider the offer an insult.

The compensation offer comes after months of protests by veterans of the seven-year bush war that led to independence in 1980. Zimbabwe war veterans oppose white farmer compensation President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed a 35 billion agreement with white farmers in July this as compensation for their losses. The veterans of the 1970s war were in 1997 given Z50 000 in gratuities each by President Robert Mugabes government after embarking on a series of protests. Currently the pension of registered war veterans is 350 and that of ex-detainees is pegged at 317 and currently the amount they are receiving is too little for them to survive and.

A group of Zimbabwean liberation war veterans has filed a legal challenge against the governments plans to compensate former white farmers whose properties were seized during controversial land reforms two decades ago. This success inspired the protests of another group the Women in the National Liberation War Collaborators Association which called on President Robert Mugabe to also compensate female partisans who had served as scouts and spies during the bush war.