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Despite a court ruling in their favour, white farmers in Zimbabwe are still being forced from their land, and the new political coalition appears deaf to their appeals

THE THERON family home on Friedenthal farm outside of Beatrice, a rural village 70km north of Harare, resembles a military enclosure as much as it does a farmhouse at the heart of a sprawling cattle ranch.