Mugabe now moves against city whites...

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President Robert Mugabe has begun confiscating and vandalising white-owned property in Zimbabwe's cities, after taking over most farms in the countryside.

His police last week evicted hundreds of people from their homes eight miles from the centre of Harare.

Ian Ross, 68, the owner of Gletwyn farm, incorporated into the capital in 1996, could hardly control himself as he recalled how police turfed his workers out into the rain.

"They arrived to evict the workers, which they did piece by piece, village by village compound by compound," said Mr Ross.

"The workers were dumped. They moved into sheds, into chicken runs. They were living like rabbits."