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Land seizures to go ahead

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe says he will go ahead with plans to seize white-owned commercial farms to resettle black labourers despite his defeat in the country's recent constitutional referendum.

    "We can take the land under presidential powers and nobody should rejoice over our defeat," Mugabe said in an interview on Sunday on state television (ZTV).

    "The land question has not been resolved. The people are angry and if we let the people vent their anger, they will invade the farms and then the farmers will come to us for protection," he said.

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