Zimbabwe -- Mugabe's sister wanted victim's house***"Mugabe said she knew that Paddy McCleary, Terry's aunt, had died a couple of months earlier and she wanted to take Paddy's house, on Terry's farm, for herself. "To avoid trouble, Terry let Mugabe walk around Paddy's house. Then Mugabe said that she would be moving into the house the next day and that she wanted the furniture as well. "Terry told Mugabe she couldn't do it. She said 'I can. My brother's the President and if you don't do it then heads will roll.' When Terry asked if she was threatening him, she denied it." Following Miss Mugabe's visit, Miss Rusike returned leading a group of war veterans and confiscated all his farm equipment. "They allowed him to plough, but then they planted their own crops in the fields he had prepared," said Mr Munro. It appears there was also a feud behind her intimidation of Mr Ford whose body was found with his dog refusing to leave his side, a scene shown in pictures transmitted around the world. ***
Zimbabwe -- 12 Mugabes to get white farms***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.***
SIX MILLION: Starvation of 6 million won't deter Mugabe's crack down on white defiance in Zimbabwe *** "Time is not on their side," Mugabe was quoted by state radio as saying. The increasingly authoritarian leader said his government would take action against those who defied its orders. Despite a looming famine in southern Africa, Mugabe has continued with the seizure of 95 percent of the white-owned farmland in the country, bringing to a standstill an industry that once helped feed southern Africa. ***
Zimbabwe -- Beware the U-turn***……….The key to understanding what Mugabe and his Zanu PF party are up to - for blacks as well as whites - is the word "leases." The ruling party moguls, security force chiefs and 54,000 others getting so-called "model 2" holdings, capable of being farmed on an individual basis, will not be granted the freehold their 5,000 white predecessors had (The first 2,900 seizure and eviction orders fell due on August 9 and scores of whites were detained over the past weekend for defying them, although their constitutional validity is heavily in doubt). At the first sign of political disloyalty the "new farmers", as Mugabe calls them, will be liable to instant eviction.