Seizure of White-Owned Farms in Zimbabwe Continues, Fears of Food Shortages Heightened

According to Zimbabwe’s Commercial Farmers Union at least 77 white-owned farms have been seized by those close to President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party over the past two weeks.

The seizures were taking place in the provinces of Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland West, Masvingo and Midlands as part of Mugabe’s land reform policies that included the redistribution of white-owned farms to landless blacks.

Union President Trevor Gifford has pointed his finger at MPs, police, the military and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for carrying out the land seizures, an act that was ruled illegal by the Southern African Development Community Tribunal in November.

Mugabe’s land reform policy has left millions of Zimbabweans in need of food as farms that once produced crops now sit untilled. The growing food shortage is expected to get worse with news of new farm seizures and under the new unity government that Mugabe was forced to form with Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai the ZANU-PF appointed ministers of agriculture and lands.

Many see the recent seizures as a means of undermining Tsvangirai who has made it his mission to stabilize the failed economy of Zimbabwe.

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