Whites Resist Deadline to Stop Farming
A 45-day countdown for 3,000 white Zimbabwean farmers to abandon their land began today, but many vowed to stay put rather than watch vital crops rot as the nation is short of food.
The farmers had been given until midnight Monday to stop working the land and just over a month to leave entirely after President Robert Mugabe’s government amended its land acquisition law last month.
But Jenni Williams, spokeswoman for the Commercial Farmers’ Union, said the farmers would finalize papers today seeking a court ruling to stop the order.
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