If something is wrong... The invisible suffering of commercial farm workers and their families due to “Land Reform”
[2009 November 10]

Report produced for the General Agricultural & Plantation
Workers Union of Zimbabwe [GAPWUZ] by the Research and
Advocacy Unit [RAU] and the Justice For Agriculture [JAG] Trust

This report presents the findings of preliminary quantitative and qualitative surveys of workers on commercial farms in the wake of the catastrophic “Land Reform” policy in Zimbabwe. Whilst the companion reports produced from this series of projects have received some attention, this report is the first to deal solely with data gathered from the farm workers themselves. It represents the views of only a small section of the 1.8 million people that lived and worked on Zimbabwe’s commercial farms. However, the continued gathering of data means that in time we will be able to paint a detailed picture of the lives of farm workers across the country, as they struggled over the last nine years with State-sponsored invasions, torture, violent assaults, murders, rapes, evictions and other violations of the law and their rights. For the moment, though, the data presented here makes no claim to be statistically representative.

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