On Benchmark 3: Land and Agriculture - According to the STERP policy, the IG should have established a diverse and fully representative mechanism to conduct a comprehensive land audit that is nonpartisan and transparent. Land Audit: Nothing of this sort has materialised thus far. At the moment there are no concrete steps to conduct a comprehensive land audit. This, according to Lands Minister Hebert Murerwa, is due to a lack of funding. Murerwa said that although the government is receiving some funding from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to set up the data capturing infrastructure, more was needed for the real audit to begin. “We are being assisted by UNDP to set up data structures across the provinces, but we need US$31 million for the audit which has not been found,” he said26. According to the STERP policy, the IG should have established a diverse and fully representative mechanism to conduct a comprehensive land audit that is non-partisan and transparent, but nothing has materialised yet. The Minister of Agriculutural Mechanisation, Joseph Made, has been quoted widely arguing that a land audit will only be conducted after sanctions have been removed, claiming that these sanctions are affecting agricultural production. Farm Invasions: Fam invasions continue to characterise the land resettlement programme, targeting mainly commercial white farmers. Zimbabwe’s remaining white farmers say continued farm invasions as well as human and property rights abuses by partisan groups are keeping international investors away from the poverty-stricken country. According to the Commercial Farmers’ Union (CFU), 152 of the 300 commercial farms still in operation are now being targeted for eviction27. The CFU has rounded on the inclusive government, slamming the troubled administration’s failure to stop a few extremists from openly threatening, physically attacking and illegally evicting commercial farmers and their workers. The selective application of the law and disregard for property rights, investment agreements and court orders has also been noted.28 The government has failed to protect even farmers whose properties are protected under governmentto-government agreements. For instance, despite the signing of a Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPPA) with South Africa on November 27, 2009, attacks on South African nationals operating productive commercial farms have increased. Since Christmas, there have been numerous attacks and evictions and these acts of lawlessness are continuing. On 17 January, the South African government officially raised its concerns with the Harare administration against the grabbing of farms from its citizens. The German embassy in Harare also wrote to the Zimbabwean government protesting against the continued violation of an investment protection agreement between the two countries, and warned this could harm further aid from Berlin. The embassy acted after farm invaders – alleged to be members or supporters of ZANU-PF – moved onto three properties belonging to German citizens. The letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi identified the properties occupied as Makandi Tea and Coffee (Private) Limited, Border Timbers Limited both in Manicaland province and Forrester Estate (Private) Limited in Mashonaland Central. They are all  ëFunding problems stall land audit: Ministerí;  Friday  04  June  2010:  www.zimonline.co.za 26  ëZim farm invasions keep investors awayí; Mail and Guardian, 10 January 2010. 27  CFU slams GNU over continuing invasions; The Zimbabwe Times, 25 January 2010 and ëFarmers Flee as Invasions Resume in Matebelelandí; Newsday, 4 June 28 2010,pp:9 CIVIL SOCIETY MONITORING MECHANISM (CISOMM) SIX MONTH SHADOW REPORT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE INCLUSIVE OF ZIMBABWE 18