Only a 'small fraction' of white farmers who lost their land in the 2000s in Zimbabwe have been compensated to date.

More than two decades ago over 4,000 commercial farmers lost their land to black counterparts amid the land reforms of then president Robert Mugabe.

Mugabe led the country to independence from Britain in 1980 and was president for 37 years until shortly before his death in 2019.

'There is a tiny fraction that have accepted a side deal,' said Deon Theron, acting chairman of the committee.

'We're just trying to correct that misconception that the deal has been done and compensation is taking place and everyone is happy. That's not the true fact,' he insisted.

The committee has already complained that the government's compensation programme substantially undervalues the properties' values.

Land reforms designed to correct inequalities stemming from the era of British colonialism largely benefited acolytes of the then government and farmers who were neither equipped nor trained to run the farms, leading to a collapse in production as well as underpinning a surge in criminality, the effects of which remain today.

Mugabe's successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, signed a $3.5 billion deal in 2020 designed to compensate those dispossessed, but Theron says they have seen almost none of the cash to date.