Word: chinhoyi
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...green, rich cattle, wheat and tobacco lands of Chinhoyi, 120 km northwest of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, are remembered as the scene of early skirmishes in the black guerrilla war more than two decades ago that ended white rule in what was then Rhodesia. Last week most of the 90 farms around Chinhoyi were deserted. Many had been looted and pillaged by mobs acting with the blessing of President Robert Mugabe. Farm equipment, seed and fertilizer were stolen, and livestock killed or driven into the fields. "I feel as though I've been raped," said a Chinhoyi farmer, surveying...
...After 20 years of independence in Zimbabwe, surprisingly little has changed. White farmers are again facing a black insurgency - only now it represents a government seemingly bent on destroying them, even if it destroys the country. The turmoil in Chinhoyi is the latest in an 18-month onslaught against the white farming community since Mugabe declared a "fast-track" policy of seizing more than 90% of white-owned farmland for black resettlement. Nine white farmers have died in the accompanying violence. Scores of black farm workers have been injured, and thousands more have been driven from the land by militant...
...majority rural vote he needs in the presidential election due by next April. Urban dwellers are largely fed up with Mugabe, so the multi-racial opposition Movement for Democratic Change may do well in the cities. But considering what Mugabe's mobs can do in rural areas like Chinhoyi, the 77-year-old President may already have his re-election in the bag. He has dismissed warnings of diplomatic sanctions from Washington as "racist threats," ignored advice from the Commonwealth, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and brushed off the withdrawal of aid from Denmark and other European...
...expressing "grave concern" about Zimbabwe, the 14-nation Southern African Development Community moved to set up a team to "engage in dialogue" with Mugabe and his government. There is little evidence the message is getting through. But if Mugabe were to visit the once-prosperous, now devastated farms of Chinhoyi, he might conclude that his onslaught against democracy...
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