Only 100 white farmers left in Zimbabwe

HARARE, Zimbabwe, March 25 (UPI) -- Only 100 white farmers remain in Zimbabwe after a radical land reform policy instituted by President Robert Mugabe, opposition leaders say.

Mugabe's policies have resulted in 4,000 white farmers being evicted from their land by government enforcers since he moved to abolish freehold title on farms in 2007, The Times of London reported Wednesday.

It is a policy that new Finance Minister Tendai Biti -- a member of the Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe's new coalition government -- says has resulted in food production plunges and widespread hunger. Biti pledged last week to "arrest any further farm invasions" but they seem to be accelerating, The Times said.

On Tuesday, farmer Tom Venter was found guilty of failing to get off his farm, while elsewhere in Zimbabwe, Simon Keevil received a summons for the same offense. A day earlier, The Times said, two white farmers were arrested and two black farm managers were jailed because their employers weren't there.