New legal battle to keep White Zimbabwe farming
Posted: Wednesday, June 26, 2002(Guardian UK) Two white Zimbabwean farmers took the government to court yesterday in an effort to block its order that they abandon their farms. It was a test case closely watched by 3,000 others also facing eviction.
A 45-day countdown for the white farmers to leave their land began yesterday, but many vowed to stay put rather than watch crops rot in a country short of food.
Zimbabwe's Commercial Farmers' Union has not joined the action, but is keenly awaiting the outcome, which is expected on Friday.
The order was the latest shot in the government's battle to redistribute farms to landless black Zimbabweans. MOREPrinter friendly version
Send page by E-Mail
Previous Page | Zimbabwe Watch | Historical Views | Home
NOTICE: All articles are the copyright property of the writers. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C., section 107, some material on this site is provided without permission from the copyright owner, only for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of federal copyright laws. Visit: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml for more details. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
