. Stewart’s assailants were unable to penetrate the barred windows and reinforced doors of his homestead on Ngawarati dairy farm. Instead, they entered through the roof and strangled him in his bed. Then they covered him with a mattress, doused it in petrol and set him alight. Several farm workers tried to rescue him, but found he him already dead. John Worsley-Worswick, the chief executive of Justice for Agriculture Trust, a pressure group, has been quoted as saying: “We are appalled at the cold-blooded murder of yet another of Zimbabwe’s few remaining productive commercial farmers. It was particularly abhorrent at this time of Zimbabwe’s acute food crisis.” Mr Stewart’s murder came as the self-destruction of Zimbabwe’s opposition allowed President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) party to sweep to an easy victory in the recent Senatorial elections.
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2.12.2005
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Farmer burnt to death
NORTON Don Stewart, 68, one of Zimbabwe's last remaining white farmers, was strangled and burned to death in an attack inside his home at the weekend.
Police have said the murder was the work of common criminals and had no political motive. But only a hunting rifle appears to have been stolen
Police have said the murder was the work of common criminals and had no political motive. But only a hunting rifle appears to have been stolen