Forced off his land in Zimbabwe, 60-year-old Hunter Coetzee has farming in his blood, but it’s Nigerian soil under his fingernails now after the first harvest in his new home. ”Nigeria has offered us hope and succour. We are here for good,” he said contentedly, six years after he thought he had lost everything.
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/ 2 February 2005
Riding through a Nigerian forest on motorbikes, four white Zimbabwean farmers are checking out the land they’ll soon settle on, hoping to start a new life here after being chased off their farms. Since 2000, some of the thousands of farmers forced off their land have moved to neighbouring Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia.