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Government Begins Evicting Farm Squatters

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From Times Wire Reports

ZIMBABWE

Zimbabwe has begun evicting thousands of black families occupying white-owned farms and other lands not listed for seizure under President Robert Mugabe’s land reform plan, officials said.

White commercial farmers welcomed the government’s first major move against illegal settlers since a wave of state-sanctioned farm invasions began two years ago. About 12,000 families are to be evicted from undesignated farms in southern Masvingo province.

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