Zim vice-president orders minister to halt farm seizures (...) Traditional leaders are said to have told Mugabe during a conference in Harare last month that most of their subjects were grateful for the support they were getting from white farmers and that the farmers should be viewed as development partners. Zimbabwe has largely survived largely on food handouts from international relief agencies since land reforms began seven years ago after black villagers resettled on former white farms failed to maintain production. Poor performance in the mainstay agriculture sector has also had far reaching consequences as hundreds of thousands have lost jobs while the manufacturing sector, starved of inputs from the sector, is operating below 30 percent of capacity.
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