Zimbabwe whites 'must stop farming'

BBC Africa Service ^ | June 24, 2002 | Barnaby Phillips

[Clive]

The majority of white farmers who are still in Zimbabwe are legally obliged to stop working their land from Monday, according to their union.

The Commercial Farmers' Union says that 2,900 farmers must surrender farms in line with recent changes to the law, which give the Zimbabwean Government sweeping powers to take land.

Any farmer who carries on working their land 45 days after receiving an acquisition notice could face two years in prison.

The number of farmers affected represents about 60% of the total of white farmers who were in Zimbabwe at the time that land seizures began two years ago.

Self-sufficiency

Last month the government passed the legislation, giving farmers 45 days to stop working land which has been listed for acquisition and redistribution.

War veterans have spearheaded the government's land push In theory the farmers now have another 45 days, at the end of which they must leave their properties for good.

The government was not available for comment, but a state controlled newspaper said the authorities had rejected requests from farmers that they be allowed to stay on.

Some white farmers appear to be in a defiant mood and say they will carry on farming.

One said, you can't just wind up 50 years of work in 45 days.

Donors say the food shortages now affecting millions of Zimbabweans are directly linked to the often chaotic redistribution of land.

But the government says that by taking land from white farmers and giving it to landless black peasants, it is ensuring greater self-sufficiency in the future.

[Carry_Okie]

Outstanding find, thank you. It may have been feed, but the contamination might not even have been a domestic source.

I have heard reports of similar infestations here in the US among sheep.

[Righty1]

The commies did this in Russia and the Ukraine with the same disastrous results. Eventually this will happen to farmers and ranchers in the ex-U.S. SW to try and solve mexicos overpopulation problem. Nobody cared when it was white Volga Germans, Rhodesians, or South Africans. If honky pig whitey doesn't wake up to the fact that the U.N. and the left have him slated for the evolutionary slag heap this process will soon be irreversible!

[another cricket]

Hard yes. But they would be alive. I fear that if they stay they won't be.

a.cricket

[ninonitti]

America could be next. Don't laugh!

America is next-watch for the white population to dip below 50% - by what? 2035?

We've already ceded entire inner cities to the results of welfare breeding experiments run amock. It's only a mater of time before we are over run by savages.

[jws3sticks]

Robert Mugabe is a rabid crazed dog who does not bathe and he will bring the wonderful country to its early grave.

It is so sad to see his crazy mind set under way. Thanks, Jimmy Carter, you a$$hole.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

To Clarify my earlier point:

Foolishness does not necessarily mean unsuccessful.

At least, initially.

[.45MAN]

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