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Original Post Date: 2001-08-20 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 8/20/2001 1:20:32 PM
Zimbabwean Farmers driven off by an orgy of “banditry”
> Jan, this was in today’s issue of The Times of London. FYI.
> Gordon
>
> TUESDAY AUGUST 14 2001
>
> Farmers driven off by ‘orgy of banditry’
>
> BY MICHAEL HARTNACK IN HARARE AND MICHAEL
> DYNES
>
> WHITE farmers in Zimbabwe suffered a fresh round of plunder
> and
> violence yesterday as more than 250 pro-Government militants
> ransacked properties in the northwest. Ninety families,
> totalling about 300 men, women and children, have been evacuated
> from the farming district around the town of Chinhoyi, 75 miles
> north of Harare.
>
> Nearly (194)Â(163)£2.8 million-worth of tractors, vehicles and other
> farming equipment was stripped from a number of farms in the
> area.
>
> “My farm was one of the first to be trashed,” one farmer said. “A
> 250-strong mob arrived at the farm on tractors stolen from other
> properties.
>
> “They went through my house from top to toe, smashing everything
> in their sight. Six of my dairy cows were butchered with axes,” he
> said.
>
> “They made our workers join in. Anyone who refused was beaten up.
> My foreman was left with a broken arm. Then they set fire to the
> bush behind my house. The police made no arrests for destruction
> of property or stock theft. About 28 of the 90 farms in the area
> have been trashed so far. There is tonnes of farm equipment lying
> about all over the place. It’s complete chaos.”
>
> Another farmer said that scores of black workers had been
> assaulted by the war veterans. Farm documents were scattered or
> burnt in what appeared to be an attempt to prevent the owners from
> resuming production. “What couldn’t be loaded on to tractors,
> trucks and even donkey carts was destroyed or set on fire in an
> orgy of banditry,” he added.
>
> The Rev Deon Van Dyk, a local clergyman, inspected four of the
> farms belonging to his parishioners in the Mhangura area, near
> Chinhoyi. “Not a single piece of furniture is left. Combine
> harvesters have been trashed. Seed and fuel has been scattered
> everywhere,” he said. “Twenty-eight houses in the area have
> totally gone – just gone.
>
> “The farmers are completely traumatised by what has happened to
> them. Yet not one has fired a shot in anger.”
>
> More than 100 of the 400 farms in the Chinhoyi-Mhangura-Doma
> area have been abandoned in the week since 21 farmers were
> detained for coming to the aid of a besieged neighbour. Fresh
> approaches will be made to judges today for their release.
>
> Nearly all of Zimbabwe’s 5,500 white-owned farms, totalling 30
> million acres, have been designated for seizure.