By Peta Thornycroft
Harare - One of the last white farmers in the Banket area - about 80km north of Harare - has been murdered. Norwegian-born Ole Sunde, 66, was apparently beaten to death at the weekend, but his family do not know exactly how he died because Zimbabwe no longer has a state pathologist.
On Wednesday his daughter-in-law, who asked not to be named, said that there were signs of struggle in the house, and Sunde was found dead on his bed, covered in bruises.
She said Sunde, who came to Zimbabwe about 30 years ago but carried a Kenyan passport, had hardly been able to farm because of political disturbances in the area, which used to be the top food producing district.
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Journalists Karima Brown and Peter Fabricius report that South Africa's High Commissioner to Zimbabwe, Jerry Ndou, has played down concerns about the latest moves by the Zimbabwean government against farms owned by South Africans.
Cases involving 15 South African-owned farms are now going before the administrative court in Harare to legalise the seizure of the farms.
These cases appear to contradict an agreement with Zimbabwe that land owned by fellow-members of the Southern African Development Community would not be touched.
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This article was originally published on page 10 of The Mercury on February 10, 2005
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