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Original Post Date: 2001-11-14 Time: 14:08:26 Posted By: Jan
[Harare, November 13 ] – As stunned white farmers tried to absorb president
Robert Mugabe’s new mass eviction bid, their union warned them not to make
immediate decisions for their future.
Commercial Farmers’ Union president Colin Cloete said in a statement on
Tuesday night that a decree issued by Mugabe last week that gave the owners
of about 800 farms immediate notice of 90 days to get off their farms, had
“widespread implications.”
The issue would be discussed by union leaders before it could give any
advice.
Union officials said a series of meetings would be held around the country
later this week.
I don’t know what to do now,” said one senior official. “What are we supposed
to tell people, plant at the risk of being thrown off before they can reap,
or pack up and go and abandon everything, their whole lives. This is too
horrible for words.”
On Monday senior cabinet ministers confirmed that the decree issued by Mugabe
under his sweeping presidential powers meant that confiscation orders that
previously could come into effect only after being approved by a court, now
gave farmers three-months notice from Friday when the decree was issued, and
side-stepped the judiciary.
They said that the owners of another 3700 farms – making a total of 4500
properties, or 90 percent of the more then ten million hectares owned by
white farmers – would receive the same eviction orders.
The move would probably have the most devastating effect of everything that
has happened since thousands of ruling ZANU(PF) party militias began invading
white-owned farms in February last year, observers said.
Since then 39 farm workers and nine white farmers have been murdered, while
police took scant notice of appeals for protections from rampant violence,
destruction of property, harassment and theft by squatters.
With the beginning this week of the summer rainfall season, usually welcomed
with joy by farmers, economists forecast that Mugabe’s move would immediately
force farmers to abandon all their plans to plant for the summer cropping
season.
Several farmers contacted around the country said they had been dismantling
irrigation equipment on their farms. “What the hell is going on?” pleaded one
farmer who asked not to be named.
“I produced 12000 tonnes of wheat this year and the government is asking for
food aid. There is no sense.”
Said another: “We have been producing through 18 months of anarchy and
lawlessness. But how can you survive this? You wonder what we have been doing
here.”
The United Nations was expected this week to give its response to an appeal
by the government two weeks ago for 365 million dollars emergency relief,
including food aid.
Aid agencies say already nearly one million people are in “dire need” of food
aid and that stocks of maize are expected to run out in January.
Observers say Mugabe’s goal to hand over millions of hectares of white land
to blacks is his most important strategy to retain power in elections due by
the end of March next year.
[Sapa]