Zimbabwe’s new rules

HARARE: Economically-hamstrung Zimbabwe has passed new regulations ordering some 300,000 beneficiaries of President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reforms to pay annual rent and levies, a state daily said Monday. The new rules stipulate that ‘resettled farmers with permits and 99-year leases ... shall be expected to pay rent and a development levy,” The Herald newspaper reported. The farmers will now be required to pay annual rental fees ranging from $3 to $10 per hectare.