The remaining white commercial farmers across the country are facing intensified threats by mobs of land invaders, as the lawless invasions of farms continue. Last week Banket farmer Roy Crawford was reportedly abducted from his farm and tied up with barbed wire, apparently for “failing to chant election slogans supporting (Robert) Mugabe.” Crawford was eventually released after the police... 

Zimbabwean farmers attend a meeting of white commercial farmers in capital Harare. Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court heard a case on behalf of three farmers who claimed the constitution excluded confiscation of their land because they bought their properties after the colonial era ended with independence in 1980. The Supreme Court did not agree and quickly dismissed their application. One of the farmers,... 

Zimbabwe’s white farmers face new violent surge in the build up to vote, farm leaders say. A Zimbabwean white farmers’ organization said Thursday they had seen a “renewed onslaught” of farm seizures and attacks, including the slayings of two farmers, in recent weeks. Deon Theron, head of the Commercial Farmers Union that represents Zimbabwe’s dwindling number of white... 

You've got killed? It was all your fault! Why did you exist in the first place? Didn't you know white people don't have the right to exist? It’s farmers’ fault that many farms are unsafe, ANC MPs said on Tuesday. André Botha, chair of Agri SA’s policy committee on rural safety, said during a presentation to the portfolio committee on police that the derogatory statements... 

Beaten: Mike, left, and Ben whose farmland in Zimbabwe was torched They turned up that dark evening, as they would for many more to come, when supper was over. Screaming ‘out, out, out’ and thumping drums, Mugabe’s mob lit a noose of 50 fires around the farmhouse. In the flickering circle of flames, it was easy to see the AK-47 automatic rifles they waved above their angry faces. Inside,... 

The Republic of Congo has signed an agreement to lease 200,000 hectares of land to South African farmers. Congo’s agriculture minister said it would bring expertise to the country and reduce its dependence on imports. South African farmers’ union Agri SA, which signed the deal, said the ANC government’s land policy was forcing white farmers to seek land abroad. The ANC is seeking... 

“He’s talking like Mugabe now”: Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, the new prime minister of Zimbabwe after ousting out Robert Mugabe continue the crackdown white farmers who are cultivating food and crops to feed the blacks, who are unable by any means to work their own land. Harare – President Robert Mugabe’s controversial “land reform programme” took a new twist... 

President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party has drawn up a secret plan to accelerate seizures of land owned by white farmers in Zimbabwe. The Commercial Farmers’ Union estimates that at least 100 farmers have been targeted for eviction and invasion in the last two weeks. They appear to be the first victims of a secret plan drawn up by Mr Mugabe’s allies to ensure that “everything... 

Militants Invade White Farms in Zimbabwe White farmers in Zimbabwe say militants loyal to President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party have forced three cattle ranchers off their land. A fourth is holding out with about 50 militants threatening to break down his farm gates. The land grabs, revealed Sunday, come as Mugabe and his party confront massive elections losses and an expected presidential...