White farmer says he will only hand over farm if ordered.

Описание: (10 Jul 2001)

Marondera - July 9, 2001
1. Kay family walking outside farmhouse - Iain, Kerry and their son David
2. Farmhouse
3. David standing by charred area on ground where veterans had one of their fires
4. David by damaged fence
5. Damaged seedling nursery
6. Disturbed trays by nursery
7. Close up damaged fence
8. Iain Kay showing damaged seed trays
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Iain Kay, Farmer
"And they wanted to know when I was going to leave. And I explained to them that this was our home, that two generations had built this farm from nothing. It was just bush. And the third generation was starting to work on this farm. And my employees, some of my employees had been with me, or with the family since then. And I said we none of us wanted to leave. But if the law demanded it, we would follow the due course of law."
10. Iain showing where fires had been
11. Iain talking to black worker (in Shona, local language in which Kay is fluent)
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Iain Kay, Farmer
"On Friday when this started, some people had obviously been sent down there, and the whole seed bed site had been trashed. The plastic has been burnt, they've dug up the seed beds. And I mean that represents a lot of money, a lot of money."

Marondera - April 5, 2001
13. Kay lifts up his shirt and shows cuts and bruisers on his back
14. Kay eating with his family
15. Close up injured head

Marondera - July 9, 2001
16. Kay family outside house
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kerry Kay
"And if people in the rest of the world think there is law and order in Zimbabwe, there's absolutely none. Well there's law and order for the one party and that's it. And anybody who has any differing opinion. So I'm just really sad, I spent a whole morning up in the communal area just last week where a woman had killed her two children and killed herself. She was 29 years old, she killed her baby boy of six months old and her son of seven years old. When I asked the people who were sitting round the fire with them what was wrong, and she just said she couldn't live properly in Zimbabwe today and she didn't want her children to suffer and that's exactly what's going on at the moment."
18. Various destroyed pipes which were used to irrigate the field

STORYLINE:

As African leaders meeting in Lusaka praised Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's efforts to seize white farms without compensation, Zimbabwean farmers and their workers continue to suffer under this policy.

African foreign ministers at the Organisation of African Unity summit in the Zambian capital drafted a statement of support that is expected to be formally adopted at the end of the summit on Wednesday.

Iain Kay, a tobacco farmer in the Marondera district of Zimbabwe was badly beaten by self-styled Zimbabwean war veterans twice last year.

Both times he was hospitalised.

The government has since earmarked about 4,500 of the country's 5,000 white-owned farms for seizure, a plan the courts have ruled violates Zimbabwe's own land reform laws.

Kay , who again spent this weekend under siege from armed men, said he would only willingly abandon his farm if required to do so by law.

About 60 militants occupied his homestead in the Marondera tobacco and corn district about 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Harare on Friday.

At least one militant had a Kalashnikov assault rifle, another had a shotgun and most of the rest carried axes, clubs and knives.

They lit fires around the thatched farmhouse and beat drums throughout the two-day siege.


Militants assaulted 18 of Kay's workers, one seriously.

















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