ZIMBABWE: PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE'S GOVERMENT TO GO AHEAD WITH PLANS TO SIEZE MORE THAN 800 WHITE OWNED FARMS

Record ID: 443128

  • Title: ZIMBABWE: PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE'S GOVERMENT TO GO AHEAD WITH PLANS TO SIEZE MORE THAN 800 WHITE OWNED FARMS
  • Date: 28th June 2000
  • Summary: ARCTURUS, 40 K FROM HARARE, ZIMBABWE (JUNE 28, 2000) 1. SLV ALDERLY FARM: VARIOUS OF FARM WORKERS/ COWS GRAZING/ WORKERS GRINDING MAIZE (7 SHOTS) 1.00 2. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHN SNYMAN, WHITE FARMER: "We are born and bred Zimbabweans, we have a right to be here. They (ZANU-PF) can't chuck us out, they have no right to chuck us out, we are born and bred Zimbabweans. That's what we are 1.15 3. MV SNYMAN SEATED 1.17 4. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) SNYMAN: "Let's hope the land issue is something that's going to be rectified really soon and we can get on with our lives. We need security here, we can't live like this. Nobody wants to live in a situation like this. It's such a fantastic country. Why wreck it through, I don't know, ill-governance?" 1.39 5. LV FIELD IN LAROCO FARM, OWNED BY WHITE FARMER NICO AND HEIDI VANRENSBURG (3 SHOTS) 2.00 6. SLV COWS/ VANRENSBURGS WALKING THROUGH GATE (3 SHOTS) 2.16 7. SV SOUNDBITE (English) NICO VANRENSBURG: "I think what Mugabe was saying last night, we must be one nation and just carry on and that we just build the nation, we just build the country up" 2.29 8. SET UP/SV SOUNDBITE (English) HEIDI VANRENSBURG: "If you want to make something of your country you must work and to bring this country's name up. and because Zimbabwe is a beautiful country and it is a very rich country. And I understand there is a lot of people which are worried about this country, worried that people must make a life here. And well I don't want to quit my country so that's why I don't want to put Zimbabwe bad because it's a beautiful country" (2 SHOTS) 3.15 9. SLV VANRENSBURG WITH FARM WORKERS 3.20 10. SV SOUNDBITE (English) NICO VANRENSBURG: "This morning I see some of the workers here use their MDC T-shirts now, their MDC hats, because they not fear now because if they was used it before the election (means, if they had done this before the election) they (pro-government) was (would have) just grabbed them, take (taken) them down to the camps and give them hidings and coming down to burn their compounds and all that so everything looks like taking one line now" 3.45 11. SV SOUNDBITE (English) HEIDI VANRENSBURG: "The whites have got the same rights as the blacks. the whites have also got a right to stay in Zimbabwe, not only the blacks. You understand what I mean?" 3.56 12. MV FAMILY ON THE PORCH (2 SHOTS) 4.06 13. SV SOUNDBITE (English) SNYMAN: "Of course we're always very hopeful the country's going to get back on its feet. We were born and bred Zimbabweans, we want to stay here. It's got to come right and I think that our future's all here. We can't go anywhere else. I don't feel that I'm the type of person to go and live anywhere else. I'm quite happy to carry on" 4.28 14. SLV CAR IN LAROCO 4.39 15. CU SELF-STYLED WAR VETERANS SIGN ON TREE SAYING: ZIMBABWE WILL NEVER BE A COLONY AGAIN 4.43 16. SLV SELF-STYLED WAR VETERANS CAMPED IN LAROCO COMPOUND (2 SHOTS) 4.54 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th July 2000 13:00
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  • Location: ARCTURUS, 40 K FROM HARARE, ZIMBABWE
  • Country: Zimbabwe
  • Reuters ID: LVAL2MI8ZPZ3995GXZ8KSFPNR7U
  • Story Text: President Robert Mugabe's government has said it will
    go ahead with plans to seize more than 800 white-owned farms
    in Zimbabwe despite only narrowly winning parliamentary
    elections.

    But Zimbabwe's white farmers union has said the
    confiscation of land for black resettlement could be tied up
    for some time in the courts if farmers mount hundreds of legal
    challenges.


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