An anti-government strike shut down much of Zimbabwe’s economy on the second day of a national week of protest called against the increasingly repressive rule of President Robert Mugabe.

Opposition officials in Zimbabwe vowed to continue a week of anti-government strikes and protests today despite a tough crackdown by President Robert Mugabe’s security services.

Ruling party militants and local officials began putting pressure on a few of the hundreds of farmers defying a government order to leave their homes, farmers’ leaders said today.