Farm Shutdown Looms In Zimbabwe
Posted: Monday, June 24, 2002

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - With Zimbabwe facing a potentially devastating hunger crisis, nearly 3,000 white commercial farmers faced a deadline Monday to immediately forfeit their farms, some of which still had crops in the fields.

Under the government's "fast track" land seizure program to redistribute White-owned farms to landless blacks, about 2,900 farmers faced a midnight deadline to cease all farming activities, said Jenni Williams, a spokeswoman for the Commercial Farmers Union.

With hundreds of other farms already seized, about 95 percent of the nation's more than 4,000 white farmers would be out of business after the deadline passed, Williams said. MORE 

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