[Clive]

Assuming that Zimbabwe actually pays any attention, the best case is that the evictions are delayed for a few months.

But it also prolongs the uncertainty.

No farming will be done as the order is really in favour of the mortgagees, not the farmers and they are still prevented from continuing farming operations.

So the winter crop does not get brought in and the summer crop does not get planted.

All food shortage estimates are for the period up to the summer harvest.

But there will be no harvests, either the current winter or the coming summer.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Mugabe is starving his own people *** People are being starved in Zimbabwe by President Robert Mugabe's deliberate and systematic ploy of using food shortages to cling to power. Millions of people are going hungry not, as Mr Mugabe's government claims, because of poor rains but as a direct result of its policy of denying food to opposition supporters and enriching its loyalists. Last night, the deadline passed for the mass eviction of 2,900 of Zimbabwe's white commercial farmers, for decades the mainstay of the agricultural sector. Mr Mugabe ordered them to abandon their homes, land and livelihoods by midnight.***