12 Mugabes to get white farms
2002-09-03 09:49
Sonnette Lombaard
Johannesburg - Members of president Robert Mugabe's family, the Zanu-PF head office chauffeur and even a gospel singer are among the "landless masses" on the list of those who have been allocated farms which have been expropriated from whites in Zimbabwe.
The list of 76 pages, with over 1 00 names, was released on Monday.
Some of those on the list have been allocated three farms, despite the fact that they were given land during the first land reforms in 1998.
There are at least 12 Mugabes on the list - including the president's wife, who gets two farms.
Mugabe's sister
Sabina gets three farms. One of these farms is Gowrie, where the owner, Terry Norton, was killed by invaders.
Among the war veterans to get farms is Shiri Perence, who had been in charge of the Matabeleland massacres in the 1980s in which and estimated 20 000 people died. He gets three farms.
The name of former youth affairs, sport and culture
minister Border Gezi, who had led farm invasions in 2000 is also on the list. He died in a car accident last year.
Local government and public affairs and housing minister Ignatius Chombo
informed the owner of the farm Allan Grange in West Mashonaland on Friday by
telephone to get off the farm as he wanted to move in.
The value of the current wheat and
barley crop on the farm of 400ha is estimated at ZIM$130 million.
- Beeld