Minister of Land Reform, Didymus Mutasa, told State radio that the amount of land recovered from the ruling party loyalists was changing all the time. He said he would not know for some time how much land had been finally recovered from those who grabbed more than they are allowed, but that it would be redistributed to people who applied for land, but had so far not received any.
The few white commercial farmers left on their properties said recently they could see no evidence that Cabinet ministers, judges, bank managers, senior army personnel and other leaders, had abandoned any of the farms they took. In fact, senior army officials are scrambling for the remaining 300 productive white-owned farms.
For example, Police Assistant Commissioner Veterai this week stepped up demands on a farm in eastern Zimbabwe and told the white owners, Jessie and Digby Nesbitt and their family, they must leave the land immediately.
Veterai, who already has one farm, is ignoring a recent court order prohibiting his confiscation of the farm and his illegal occupation of the Nesbitts’ home.
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