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the nature boy
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dballer said:
I was merely asking you a question. why are they doing that? I'm not familiar with that area. So you tell me.
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Crunch Day Arrives for Zimbabwe's White Farmers
Thu Aug 8, 8:09 AM ET
By Cris Chinaka and Stella Mapenzauswa
HARARE (Reuters) - Thousands of white Zimbabwean farmers face a midnight deadline on Thursday to leave land they have farmed for generations or risk jail, although a last-minute High Court ruling could provide a grace period.
Reuters Photo
Reuters
Slideshow: Zimbabwe
The High Court ruled a mortgaged farm could not be taken for resettlement by blacks if the state had not properly informed the mortgage institution. A decision that could throw a lifeline to most of the farmers.
In a landmark decision on Wednesday, High Court Judge Charles Hungwe said the state could not confiscate land owned by Andrew Kockett because it had not informed the National Merchant Bank, which has a mortgage registered over the property.
"Farmers in the same situation as me -- which is I believe the majority -- in very few cases or in no cases has the bond holder been served with these notices," farmer Kockett told South African radio on Thursday.
"Whether that automatically gives the other farmers cover I don't know," he added. The ruling was made available to Reuters on Thursday.
Mugabe has given nearly 3,000 of the country's 4,500 white farmers until midnight to hand over their land or face a fine and up to two years in prison.
The independent weekly Financial Gazette said banks and other financial institutions lending for commercial agriculture stood to lose nearly $12 billion because of President Robert Mugabe's chaotic land reforms.
Mugabe launched his drive to take white-owned farms for black resettlement two years ago, but this would mark the first mass eviction. It comes as the country -- once the region's breadbasket -- faces severe food shortages.
Analysts say disruption to farming through the state-backed farm invasions has compounded both the food shortages and a severe economic crisis blamed on government mismanagement.
Mugabe -- Zimbabwe's sole ruler since the former Rhodesia gained independence in 1980 -- says his land seizures are meant to right the wrongs of British colonialism, which left 70 percent of the best farmland in white hands.
In May, he passed a law giving 2,900 farmers 45 days to wind up operations and another 45 days -- expiring at midnight on August 8 -- to leave their land and make way for black settlers.
SOME FARMERS TO GO, OTHERS TO STAY
Some of the farmers say they will go. Others have vowed to fight the land seizure and eviction orders through the courts.
The Commercial Farmers Union (CFU), which represents the white farmers, says it supports land redistribution, but is opposed to the system employed by the government.
But a new CFU splinter group is urging farmers to fight on.
"Our position is that people should not give in because we are in a crisis as a country," Justice for Agriculture (JAG) chairman David Connolly told reporters.
The official Herald newspaper reported on Thursday that the High Court was expected to hear another appeal from a white farmer challenging the constitutionality of the Land Acquisition Act. No date has been set so far.
The European Union ( news - web sites) and the United States have imposed sanctions on Mugabe and his ruling elite over his land policy and after his controversial re-election as president in March.
Many Western powers say the election was rigged and are backing demands by the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) for a fresh poll.
Mugabe insists he won fairly, and dismisses calls for a rerun as attempts to impose MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai as leader of the southern African country.
Thu Aug 8, 8:09 AM ET
By Cris Chinaka and Stella Mapenzauswa
HARARE (Reuters) - Thousands of white Zimbabwean farmers face a midnight deadline on Thursday to leave land they have farmed for generations or risk jail, although a last-minute High Court ruling could provide a grace period.
Reuters Photo
Reuters
Slideshow: Zimbabwe
The High Court ruled a mortgaged farm could not be taken for resettlement by blacks if the state had not properly informed the mortgage institution. A decision that could throw a lifeline to most of the farmers.
In a landmark decision on Wednesday, High Court Judge Charles Hungwe said the state could not confiscate land owned by Andrew Kockett because it had not informed the National Merchant Bank, which has a mortgage registered over the property.
"Farmers in the same situation as me -- which is I believe the majority -- in very few cases or in no cases has the bond holder been served with these notices," farmer Kockett told South African radio on Thursday.
"Whether that automatically gives the other farmers cover I don't know," he added. The ruling was made available to Reuters on Thursday.
Mugabe has given nearly 3,000 of the country's 4,500 white farmers until midnight to hand over their land or face a fine and up to two years in prison.
The independent weekly Financial Gazette said banks and other financial institutions lending for commercial agriculture stood to lose nearly $12 billion because of President Robert Mugabe's chaotic land reforms.
Mugabe launched his drive to take white-owned farms for black resettlement two years ago, but this would mark the first mass eviction. It comes as the country -- once the region's breadbasket -- faces severe food shortages.
Analysts say disruption to farming through the state-backed farm invasions has compounded both the food shortages and a severe economic crisis blamed on government mismanagement.
Mugabe -- Zimbabwe's sole ruler since the former Rhodesia gained independence in 1980 -- says his land seizures are meant to right the wrongs of British colonialism, which left 70 percent of the best farmland in white hands.
In May, he passed a law giving 2,900 farmers 45 days to wind up operations and another 45 days -- expiring at midnight on August 8 -- to leave their land and make way for black settlers.
SOME FARMERS TO GO, OTHERS TO STAY
Some of the farmers say they will go. Others have vowed to fight the land seizure and eviction orders through the courts.
The Commercial Farmers Union (CFU), which represents the white farmers, says it supports land redistribution, but is opposed to the system employed by the government.
But a new CFU splinter group is urging farmers to fight on.
"Our position is that people should not give in because we are in a crisis as a country," Justice for Agriculture (JAG) chairman David Connolly told reporters.
The official Herald newspaper reported on Thursday that the High Court was expected to hear another appeal from a white farmer challenging the constitutionality of the Land Acquisition Act. No date has been set so far.
The European Union ( news - web sites) and the United States have imposed sanctions on Mugabe and his ruling elite over his land policy and after his controversial re-election as president in March.
Many Western powers say the election was rigged and are backing demands by the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) for a fresh poll.
Mugabe insists he won fairly, and dismisses calls for a rerun as attempts to impose MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai as leader of the southern African country.
Prometheus
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bwood8168 said:
YOU ARE.
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Friday, 31 May 2002
US offers more food aid to Zim
Loughty Dube
THE United States government has extended a further US$4,96 million ($273 million) grant in food aid to famine-ravaged Zimbabwe through the World Food Programme (WFP) amid alarming reports that over six million Zimbabweans face hunger in the coming year.
US embassy public affairs spokesman Bruce Wharton said the food aid would consist of 8 500 tonnes of consumables.
"The new assistance to Zimbabwe consists of 7 500 metric tonnes of corn meal and 1 000 tonnes of corn-soya milk all valued at US$4,96 million and the aid is chanelled through the US Department of Agriculture," Wharton said.
The latest food aid by the US government brings the total aid by that country to Zimbabwe to US$27,5 million ($1,5 billion) in the last few months.
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http://www.theindependent.co.zw/news/2002/May/Friday31/633.html
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dballer
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please read about rhodesia!!!!!
they did not take the land. The British settled here in 1886 or so.. there was no struggle.. they just showed up and settled.
The did not take the land...
they did not take the land. The British settled here in 1886 or so.. there was no struggle.. they just showed up and settled.
The did not take the land...
the nature boy
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then why are the blacks doing this? this will be my 3rd time asking the same question on this thread.
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dballer
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My opinion on those starving children of Africa has just changed.
