Zimbabwe seizes Zambia-bound farm equipment

Zimbabwe seizes Zambia-bound farm equipment

FARM equipment has been nationalised

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By Staff Reporter

ZIMBABWE police have arrested five men for attempting to smuggle farm equipment to Zambia, where many evicted white Zimbabwean farmers have settled, a police spokesperson said today.

Zimbabwe law allows authorities to confiscate agricultural equipment left behind on commercial farms seized from whites, although president Robert Mugabe's government has accused some farmers of vandalising the machinery in retaliation.

Wayne Bvudzijena, the assistant commissioner, said in a statement police had intercepted a consignment of farm equipment en route to Zambia from the southwestern city of Bulawayo.

He said a white farmer was implicated in the crime.

Critics say Mugabe's redistribution of land from white commercial farmers to landless black has disrupted agriculture and led to the food shortages which have affected millions of Zimbabweans since 2001.

The government blames the crisis on drought.

Reuters

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