A fresh wave of farm takeovers hit the southeastern Lowveld in Zimbabwe this week with Zanu-PF supporters and land officers seizing five plots with a ready-to-harvest sugarcane crop. The farm owners, most of them South Africans, have since appealed to the South African embassy in Harare to intervene, reports the <i>Zimbabwe Independent</i>.

<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/199502/Zim_icon.GIF" align=left>In their latest efforts to win the March 31 parliamentary election in Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Africa National Union-Patriotic Front candidates have resorted to politicising the scarcely available grain in the country to starve suspected opposition supporters into submission.