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/ 11 October 2007
A court was to rule on Thursday whether 11 of Zimbabwe’s last remaining white farmers should stand trial after they stayed on their properties in defiance of a government eviction order. A magistrate in the farming town of Chegutu will also to decide whether the 11 can appeal against their impending eviction.
Hundreds of schools have sprung up in Zimbabwe’s former white farmlands but many of the black children they are meant to educate are not turning up at classes. At the Laforte school in Chegutu, located about 140km west of Harare, three quarters of the 116 children have not paid the fees imposed by the government to cover education costs.