ZIMBABWES main opposition party, which has fiercely opposed President Robert Mugabe’s land reforms, has given cautious support to the government’s new scheme of resettlement based on commercial operation. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has previously criticised the programme promoted by Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), which involves taking away land mainly from white commercial farmers for redistribution to blacks. Known as the commercial farm settlement scheme, the exercise launched this week aims to give commercial farmland to individuals with sizes ranging from 15 to 2_000 hectares. Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister Joseph Made said the scheme aims at “de-racialising” commercial agriculture. – AFP