The new deal will see farmers receive compensation for any improvements they made to the farms they occupied until the disastrous land reform programme in the early 2000s.
It looks like Phillip Rankin and his family can say goodbye to the farming life, a British doctor claiming his farm and police moving swiftly in.
Finally a select few white farmers in Zimbabwe will have some peace of mind after the government announced some drastic changes to their policy on white land ownership.