"Since the 2000 land invasions began, Zimbabwe's economy has gone into freefall. Foreign companies will get their farms back, but the country's white farmers will be left in the cold. The first beneficiary of the initiative will be an Indonesian company breeding ostriches in Matabeleland North Province, according to the head of an Indonesian delegation touring the country, but Indonesia's minister for the empowerment of women, Prof Meuria Swasono, said the company would have certain obligations. The ostrich and leather exporting concern will meet the costs of moving the settlers to their new homes, and be responsible for building new accommodation and sinking boreholes."
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