Dozens more white farmers were handed eviction notices in Zimbabwe as the government of President Robert Mugabe vowed on Monday to forge ahead with its controversial land reform policy.
The seizure of around 4 000 farms since 2000 is seen as a major cause of the economic crisis in the southern African nation, but the farmers' union said around 10 percent of the 500 remaining farmers had now been told to quit.
"So far 40 eviction notices have been given out by the government," Emily Crookes, the spokesperson for the Commercial Farmers' Union (CFU), told reporters.
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