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Britain concerned at land grab

    JOHANNESBURG

    The British government said on Thursday it was “extremely concerned” over the latest moves by Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe to seize white-owned farms without paying compensation.

    Media reports quoted Foreign Office Minister Peter Hain as saying: “This act is calculated to raise the temperature. It is in nobody’s interests.”

    Hain was speaking a day after Mugabe enacted special powers to allow the seizure of 841 farms which the Zimbabwean government has identified for redistribution to landless blacks.

    “We are extremely concerned that President Mugabe may be preparing to take land quickly and without compensation under this act,” Hain said. “We have always recognised the importance of the land issue but any resettlement should be done in a way which is acceptable to all concerned. Clearly this is not.”

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