-Caveat Lector- The white and black tribes of africa can be muderred with impunity. But touch anglo american property and suddenly you realise where the real power lies ============================================= BUSINESS DAY, Wednesday, Sept 20 2000 Anglo sugar estate will not seized. Zimbabwe says it was mistakenly included on resettlement list HARARE - The Zimbabwean government has admitted mistakeny listing one of the nation's most productive sugar estates for resettle ment of landless black people. State television reported yesterday that Zimbabwe had assured Nicky Oppenheimer, deputy chairman of Anglo American, that no part of his company's Hippo Valley sugar estate in southeastern Zimbabwe would be confiscated. President Robert Mugabe met Oppenheimer and other Anglo ex- ecutives on Monday and promised to remove 38 OOOha of the estate from a list of white-owned properties targeted for seizure, Oppenheimer told state television. "We were reassured that the president told us a mistake had been made and agroindustrial estates were not intended for resettlement. " Parts of several other lumber, sugar, citrus and horticulture estates have been targeted for seizure, but their fate was not immediately clear. The sugar estate mistakenly ap- peared on a list of hundreds of white-owned fanns the government plans to confiscate, divide in- to small plots and redistribute to landless black people. The Commercial Farmers Union, representing about 4 000 white fanners, says the list con- tains errors and duplications. Properties owned by the state rail- road and forestry companies, several church missions. a petrol storage depot, a golf club and at least two schools have been included. The government has not acknowledged the errors. Ruling party militants and squatters have since February illegally occupied more than 1 700 white-Qwned farms. Meanwhile, Lewis Machipisa reports that Zimbabwe's main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), yesterdayex- pressed "utter shock" at Home Af- fairs Minister John Nkomo's allegations in parliament that the police had found grenades, pistols, rifles and tear smoke at its offices. Nkomo said in parliament that police searches at the MDC sUp" port centre, head office and MDC provincial offices at St Martins and at homes of MDC officials in Harare had proved that the party had stashed weapons of war . The searches came after a grenade was hurled at an MDC of- fice last week, and were conducted on Thursday and Saturday. The MDC said the searches for the weapons of war , which were conducted by the police in full view of local and international media and MDC lawyers, had yielded nothing. Senior officials of the par- ty are due to meet today to discuss the issue. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
