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ZimBob charges two white farmers, orders 50 others to leave
President Robert Mugabes government will next week prosecute two white farmers for defying orders to vacate their farms while it has also ordered another 50 white landowners across the country to surrender their properties, a top official of the white Commercial Farmers Union said. Only about 600 out of an estimated 4 000 large-scale producing white commercial farmers remain in Zimbabwe after Mugabe drove the majority off the land and gave their farms to landless blacks in a chaotic and often violent campaign he said was meant to correct racial imbalances in land ownership.CFU vice-president Trevor Gifford declined to disclose the names of the two farmers but said they will next Tuesday appear in the magistrates court in the farming town of Karoi in Mashonaland West province. Gifford said: "Two farmers have been issued with summons to appear in court on Tuesday at 8am. They are being accused of ignoring eviction notices that were served on them. But the tragedy is that the two are some of the best in tobacco and cereals. One of them had just delivered 1 000 tonnes of maize to the Grain Marketing Board (sole grain procurer owned by the State) and now he is going to be prosecuted for doing that." Posted by: Pappy 2006-10-01 |
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