Farmers to meet Mugabe on grabs

Harare - Zimbabwe's white farmers will meet President Robert Mugabe's government today, just hours after state television announced…

Harare - Zimbabwe's white farmers will meet President Robert Mugabe's government today, just hours after state television announced a dramatic expansion of the plan to seize farms for resettling landless blacks.

The Commercial Farmers Union, which at the weekend said it would join this week's opposition-backed general strike, had scheduled the meeting before ZTV announced that 3,000 farms would be acquired. The CFU represents 4,500 primarily white farmers. --(Reuters)