The government today described Zimbabwe’s remaining white farmers as irrelevant and rejected their pleas for a truce on land seizures.

Zimbabwe’s white farmers were branded racists and fascists by a government minister today who urged tough action against those who are defying an order to stop working their fields.

Zimbabwe’s government yesterday said it had accepted an offer of 531 white-owned farms for the resettlement of landless black people.

Zimbabwe’s white landowners and private financial backers today offered to give the government 2.4 million acres of farmland to resettle landless blacks.