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Mugabe says all white-owned land could be seized

    JOHANNESBURG

    President Robert Mugabe said on Wednesday his government could seize all white-owned land in Zimbabwe, and that the government was looking at requisitioning more than the 841 farms already designated.

    News reports said he made the remarks in a pep talk to the 120 candidates of his ruling ZANU-PF party who are contesting the 24-25 June parliamentary elections.

    "It is not just the 841 farms that we are looking at. We are looking at the totality of our land," Mugabe said. "If we allow others to own portions of it, it must be out of our own will, our own desire, our own charity. Not on the back of colonial history. So let us be clear on that."

    Thousands of liberation war veterans and ZANU-PF supporters have invaded hundreds of white-owned farms since February when the government lost a referendum on seizing the land without compensation.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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