- HARARE -- President Robert
Mugabe's government has warned it will arrest white Zimbabwean farmers
resisting evictions from new land earmarked for black farmers, state media
reported on Wednesday.
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- Industry and union officials say about 600 of Zimbabwe's
4 500 white farmers have kept their land after the sometimes violent grabs
by Mugabe's supporters.
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- But the government handed some of them eviction notices
earlier this year or reduced the size of their properties.
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- More than 4 000 white commercial farmers have lost their
properties under the reforms. Last year authorities passed a constitutional
amendment barring former owners from challenging the se izures in court.
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- The Herald newspaper said some farmers who were given
notices three months ago to wind up their operations "risk being arrested
for resisting eviction after the expiry of the 90-day notice period".
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- The daily quoted the minister of state for security,
Didymus Mutasa, as sa ing that the government would move against the farmers
accused of going to court to delay their departure.
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- "We have a list of farmers resisting eviction ...
and we are going to act accordingly to redress the situation," he
told a meeting attended by senior government officials. Mutasa was not
immediately available for further comment. - Reuters
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