From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [L-I] Zimbabwe Evicts 1, 000 White Farmers AP. 12 November 2001. Zimbabwe Evicts 1, 000 White Farmers. HARARE -- The Zimbabwean government on Monday banned 1,000 white farmers from cultivating their fields and gave them three months to vacate their homes as part of its "fast track" land redistribution plan. The government has targeted 5,000 white-owned commercial farms, about 95 percent of all farms owned by whites, for seizure and redistribution to landless blacks. In a government gazette released Monday, President Robert Mugabe invoked special powers forcing the 1,000 farmers who had already received notification their land was being seized to stop all work on it, regardless of whether they had crops waiting to be harvested or appeals of the seizures pending in court. They were given three months to leave their houses. Lands and Agriculture Minister Joseph Made said the government would begin allocating plots on the farms to 51,000 black families. He said 201,000 black families had already been resettled as communal farmers on formerly white farms, a number white farmers dispute as vastly exaggerated. "This (plan) is now fundamentally complete and has been a major success," Made said. Ruling party militants began occupying white-owned commercial farms in March 2000. ------------------------------------------- Macdonald Stainsby Rad-Green List: Radical anti-capitalist environmental discussion. http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green ---- Leninist-International: Building bridges in the tradition of V.I. Lenin. http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international ---- In the contradiction lies the hope. --Bertholt Brecht _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
