Top economic analyst Vince Musewe has come to the defense of the government over its controversial move to re- offer land to former commercial farmers, violently repossessed during the chaotic land reform exercise saying the narrative in the public domain was misleading.

Posting on Twitter, Musewe urged people to get facts right on the government move which he said was not about reversing the land reform exercise.

“There is NO land reform reversal I don’t know who created that narrative. Let’s get the facts right. Returning farms to foreigners and those blacks with title whose land was wrongly repossessed is not a reversal of anything. Compensation is also the right thing to do,” said Musewe.

“There is this false myth that ALL white farmers unfairly inherited stolen land. That is another false narrative. Most of them bought that land in the market place post 1980 just as blacks also bought land post 1980 and the latter are getting their land back,” he added.

Government has also clarified that only those farmers covered by BIPPAs entered into between Zimbabwe and countries such as South Africa, Germany and Netherlands.