Muzenda, however, is understood to be in "cordial negotiations" with the farmers to compensate them for their assets reputed to be worth more than $15 million.

Mugabe’s sister —ZANU PF legislator Sabina Mugabe — plus his brother-in-law Reward Marufu have also benefited from the model A2 resettlement scheme.

Zvimba Member of Parliament Sabina Mugabe is the owner of Gowrie Farm in Norton while Marufu, a brother to First Lady Grace Mugabe, has been given Leopard Vlei in Glendale, Mashonaland Central.

Others who have also been allocated land on some of the country’s top farms include Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri, his deputy Godwin Matanga and police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena; war veterans’ leaders Joseph Chinotimba, Mike Moyo, Andy Mhlanga and Patrick Nyaruwata, and governors Obert Mpofu, Peter Chanetsa and Josaya Hungwe.

Bvudzijena this week said he had applied for Mabubu Farm in Guruve but turned it down after its allocation to him was announced in the media because he preferred the 35- ha farm he had acquired in the meantime at Koodoo Hill in Banket.