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Evicted farmers sue for breach of contract

    JOHANNESBURG

    About 13 farmers, evicted in July from state farms they were leasing in the Sessombia area to make way for a resettlement programme, have sued the government for breach of contract, news reports said on Tuesday.

    According to the reports, the farmers were on five-year contracts which were set to expire on 5 May 2002. Their leases were terminated to allow top government officials allocated land under the controversial commercial farming resettlement scheme last year, to begin work. Reports said that the scheme was publicly criticized for benefiting cabinet ministers, high court judges, two senior journalists, university lecturers and army generals at the expense of farmers.

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