In Focus | Zimbabwe
Time is nigh to settle accounts between von Pezolds and Zimbabwean regime
The European aristocratic von Pezold family seem to be on the cusp of success in their efforts to reclaim more than $200m of state compensation for agricultural land expropriated during the Mugabe era. Their success in this mission would consolidate their dominant position in Zimbabwean agriculture but also, more widely, in southern Africa.