eration Command (comprising Zimbabwe National Army , Zimbabwe Republic Police and Security forces), Happyton Bonyongwe see the land reform exercise as a remaining alternative to influence Zimbabwean voters.
President Robert Mugabe announced that it will take farms from remaining commercial farmers arguing that he wants to give land to the landless black majority. Past experiences has however proved otherwise after Mugabe had given the fertile lands to his top elite club which a ZANU PF political consultant Dr Ibbo Mandaza acknowledged had happened recently in Johannesburg .
The Zimbabwean government says it will arrest those resisting having their land taken for redistribution exercise. Mugabe has in the past called white commercial farmers traitors saying they were fighting alongside western government to effect regime change.
More than 4 000 white commercial farmers have lost their properties under the controversial land reform. Last year authorities passed a constitutional amendment barring former owners from challenging the seizures in court.
Industry and union officials say about 600 of Zimbabwe ‘s 4 500 white farmers have kept their land after the sometimes violent grabs by Mugabe’s supporters.
But the government handed some of them eviction notices earlier this year or reduced the size of their properties.
The state controlled media reported as saying some farmers who were given notices three months ago to wind up their operations “risk being arrested for resisting eviction after the expiry of the 90-day notice period”.
The daily quoted the minister of state for security, Didymus Mutasa, as saying that the government would move against the farmers accused of going to court to delay their departure.
“We have a list of farmers resisting eviction … and we are going to act accordingly to redress the situation,” he told a meeting attended by senior government officials. Mutasa was not immediately available for further comment.