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CFU alleges continuing rural intimidation

    JOHANNESBURG

    Activists of Zimbabwe’s ruling party beat and intimidated farm workers who failed to attend a weekend election rally near Glendale, 80 km north of Harare, farmers said on Monday.

    “They took a roll call and sent people to farms whose workers were not adequately represented and beat them up,” a spokeswoman for the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) told Reuters. ZANU-PF, which is facing its biggest election challenge in 20 years, held the rally on Sunday.

    “There is also widespread extortion going on all over the country as they demand food, money, transport and shelter,” she added. “They are running out of money.”

    President Robert Mugabe, who does not face re-election until 2002, has called parliamentary elections for June 24-25 for which parties and their candidates have until Saturday to register.

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