The farmers are the first major group to face eviction since Mugabe launched his drive to compulsorily acquire white-owned farms for black resettlement two years ago. On Wednesday, Zimbabwe state ...

Black militants began evicting a white farmer from his land in north eastern Zimbabwe today, the first incident since a government eviction order for thousands of farmers expired last week.

justified the reforms as being necessary to redress some of the wrongs of colonialism that put most of Zimbabwe's fertile land in the hands of a few white people. But the new Black farmers weren't ...