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Veterans insist they will remain on the farms

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabwe veterans leading the land invasions insisted on Monday that they would not vacate the white-owned farms despite calls by a cabinet minister to allow an orderly land redistribution exercise.

    Home Affairs Minister Dumiso Dabengwa said at the weekend the veterans and ZANU-PF supporters who invaded the farms should be prepared to move out to enable a proper resettlement programme.

    “We will never agree to what Minister Dabengwa is saying and we are not going to move out of the farms,” Agripah Gava, director of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association (ZNLWV), told AFP. He said the veterans and the Commercial Farmers Union had agreed the occupants would stay on the farms until they were moved to newly allocated land, and that even President Mugabe was aware of the condition.

    “In the first instance it is not them (the leaders) who sent the war veterans onto the farms,” Gava said.

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