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Veterans' leader says he wants all occupied farms seized

    JOHANNESBURG

    The leader of Zimbabwe's war veterans has said that the government should seize all 1,500 commercial farms his followers have occupied since February, news reports said on Tuesday.

    The government last week gazetted 804 white-farms for seizure without payment. It intends to distribute them out among landless blacks.

    "The gazetting of a few farms is welcome," Chenjerai Hunzvi told a press conference in Harare. He added that his organisation, would now "persuade our government to gazette all 1,500 farms."

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