By a Special Correspondent in Zimbabwe
17 December 2006 Economic collapse has forced Zimbabwe to reconsider its notorious land reform policy
...It may be too late to persuade more than a handful of white farmers to return. "A lot of the whites just gave up and emigrated out of the country," said a man who lost his farm in 2001. "Now you have white Zimbabweans farming in Zambia, South Africa, and even Nigeria. Others went to the UK or Australia - and most will not come back." |
Andrew Meldrum in Johannesburg
Sunday December 17, 2006 The Observer British property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten had a Channel 4 film crew put under house arrest in Zimbabwe when he discovered that they intended to make a documentary critical of Robert Mugabe. Hoogstraten, who owns a vast estate and other businesses in Zimbabwe, told reporters he had arranged press accreditation for the crew in return for an assurance it would be positive about the Harare regime.
Jerome Lynch, a barrister, led the three-man team and they visited sites in Harare with Hoogstraten and Nathan Shamuyarira, the secretary of information for Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party. |
Drugs boom fuels Dublin gang killings - five murders in a fortnight testify to a ruthless underworld war
Henry McDonald, Ireland editor
Sunday December 17, 2006 The Observer Christmas shoppers rushing into Dublin's city centre on the busiest week of the year are being greeted at checkpoints by police wearing body armour and carrying Uzi sub-machine guns.
The Garda Emergency Response Unit has been sent on to the streets by Michael McDowell, the Justice Minister, as a visible response to the escalating gangland war that has claimed 24 lives in 2006. McDowell insists he will maintain an armed presence in Dublin over the festive period. In the last fortnight there have been six gun deaths - five of them related to the city's gangland. |
Gaby Hinsliff, political editor
Sunday December 17, 2006 The Observer Work-shy Britons are in danger of losing out to a new wave of industrious eastern European immigrants over jobs, a cabinet minister will warn this week as he launches a controversial review of benefits.
John Hutton, the Work and Pensions Secretary, will argue that, with 600,000 vacancies nationwide, there should be jobs for most of those who want them. And he will say that a 'can work, won't work' minority who refuse to take up opportunities will be targeted in the review, which could lead to tougher sanctions against those judged not to be co-operating with efforts to find employment. |
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