Mugabe launches fresh round of farm seizures
Posted: Friday, March 22, 2002

INDEPENDENT.CO.UK - The Government of Zimbabwe has said it will seize hundreds more white farms, despite rising international pressure on President Robert Mugabe after his controversial election victory.

The government has published a list of 388 farms, including ranches owned by South Africa's wealthy Oppenheimer family, for seizure.

Early yesterday hundreds of white farmers and black farm workers attended the funeral of a white farmer, Terry Ford, who was shot on Monday at his farm west of Harare. He was the 10th white farmer to have been killed since farm occupations by war veterans began two years ago.

The Government also announced plans yesterday for massive food imports. The country is facing starvation due to drought and the chaos which has followed the occupation of white-owned farms. MORE 

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