ZIMBABWE: TWO WHITE WOMEN REPORTEDLY GANG-RAPED NEAR HARARE AS SCOPE OF VIOLENCE WROUGHT BY ZIMBABWE'S WAR VETERANS APPEARS TO WIDEN

Record ID: 528129

  • Title: ZIMBABWE: TWO WHITE WOMEN REPORTEDLY GANG-RAPED NEAR HARARE AS SCOPE OF VIOLENCE WROUGHT BY ZIMBABWE'S WAR VETERANS APPEARS TO WIDEN
  • Date: 20th April 2000
  • Summary: NEAR HARARE, ZIMBABWE (APRIL 20, 2000 (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS: EXTERIOR OF COTTAGE WHERE TWO WHITE WOMEN WERE RAPED 0.07 2. VARIOUS: DEBRIS INSIDE/ FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS (8 SHOTS) 0.51 3. MV: LANDLORD JOHN DANKWERT AND HIS WIFE STELLA 1.05 4. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) LANDLORD JOHN DANKWERT SAYING: "They're terribly shaken and they're just sleeping, we haven't bothered them at all. It must have been a dreadful ordeal. They had to walk from here about five or six miles to the airport to get help because they were frightened, they didn't know whether we were here and they had just been through such an ordeal" 1.21 5. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) LANDLORD'S WIFE, STELLA DANKWERT, SAYING: "Just jolly pleased that they weren't killed, they could have been shot I suppose. So it could have been worse, apart from the mental stigma that's going to affect these two ladies. I think eventually in time they probably will recover from this terrible ordeal, but mentally it's not a good thing for a woman and I'm desperately sorry for them" 1.53 6. MV: ANASTASIA GERA, MAID, LEAVING HOUSE 2.03 7. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) ANASTASIA GERA, MAID SAYING: "I just can't feel free waiting in this place. I think they will just come anytime they feel like it ... so I think that even when they come, when the owners are not here, I think they will kill me" 2.19 8. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) LANDLORD'S WIFE, STELLA DANKWERT, SAYING: "We have five grandchildren. Is there going to be a future for the grandchildren of all the people in the country? That I do not know. But it's a beautiful country. I was born in South Africa (but) I have no feeling about going back to South Africa. This is my home, I married here" 2.43 9. PAN DOWN: DEBRIS INSIDE HOUSE 2.49 MARONDERA DISTRICT, ZIMBABE (APRIL 20, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 10. TRAVELLING SHOTS: CONVOY OF WHITE FARMERS GOING TO CHECK THEIR PROPERTY (2 SHOTS) 2.58 11. SV: SIGN 3.01 12. MV/SV: FARMER PLAYING WITH DOGS (2 SHOTS) 3.13 13. SLV: FARMER TALKING TO WORKERS 3.18 14. MV: FARMERS DRIVING ON 3.23 15. LV: FARMYARD 3.27 16. SV: FARMER KAY BAISLEY 3.31 17. SCU: FARM MACHINERY 3.35 18. SV/LV: FARMERS TALKING/ BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 3.43 19. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) FARMER KAY BAISLEY SAYING: "Well we've just come back to reassure them because we haven't been back since Saturday night when we had to get out in a hurry. And we've come to collect a few things. We're gonna leave our wife and kids in town. Come to collect a few clothes, a few things like that" 3.58 20. SV: FARMER TALKS TO WORKER 4.06 21. MV/SLV/SV: FARMWORKERS FAMILIES (2 SHOTS) 4.15 22. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) FARMWORKER TALKMORE NYASHA SAYING: "They were beating, they were beating, they were beating.They were not here after a woman, after a man or a woman.They were beating" 4.25 23. MV/SCU: RICHARD THORNEYCROFT OF COMMERCIAL FARMERS UNION/ CFU SIGN (2 SHOTS) 4.33 24. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) RICHARD THORNEYCROFT OF COMMERCIAL FARMERS UNION SAYING: "Locally and certainly down in the Wedze area, the modus operandi has been to go in at night, into the compound, the housing of all the farms and beat up labour and intimidate them. Other than that we don't know and that is what is happening" 4.51 25. SCU: IRRIGATION SYSTEM (SPRINKLER) 4.55 26. WIDE OF FIELD 5.01 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: NEAR HARARE AND MARONDERA DISTRICT, ZIMBABWE
  • Country: Zimbabwe
  • Reuters ID: LVA8V06DOQTYRL7YPPLDZ1I0CZZY
  • Story Text: Zimbabwe has said it will host talks with its
    neighbours on the country's deepening land-grab crisis.

    Two white women are reported to have been gang-raped and
    squatters are said to have turned on black farmworkers.

    The scope of the violence wrought by Zimbabwe's war veterans
    appears to be widening.

    Two white women are reported to have been gang raped at this
    cottage south of Harare.

    The property was broken into and there was evidence of a
    struggle.

    Landlord John Dankwert condemned the attack.

    LANDLORD, JOHN DANKWERT, SAYING (ENGLISH) "They're terribly
    shaken and they're just sleeping, we haven't bothered them at
    all.It must have been a dreadful ordeal."
    Other reports suggest that black war veterans turned on farm
    workers overnight.

    Some white farmers travelled in convoy to check homes they
    abandoned almost a week ago.

    The farm hands who stayed say they were beaten.

    Farmers say they found the body of a black foreman missing
    since farmer David Stevens was killed on Saturday, raising the
    death toll on the farms to four.

    The farmers and veterans have begun talks but there is only a
    declaration of intent to hold more meetings.

    Meanwhile President Mugabe will hold two meetings with the
    leaders of South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique to discuss the
    land crisis in Zimbabwe and the civil war in Congo.
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