No arrests on deadline for white farmer evictions

A NEW deadline for Zimbabwe's white farmers to quit their properties and make way for landless blacks expired yesterday with no news of fresh arrests.

John Worswick, Vice Chairman of farm lobby group Justice for Agriculture, said some farmers had hurriedly left their land as the 1200 GMT deadline approached, but would soon return.

“I’m sure a lot of them will be going back to their farms tomorrow. We also had a lot of farmers on their properties who haven’t been arrested,” Mr Worswick said.