Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai called on Friday for the two ministers who share control over the police — one from his party, one from President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party — to ensure the arrests of all the people illegally seizing white-owned commercial farms. Apparently in a challenge to Mr. Mugabe, who endorsed the seizures in his birthday speech last month, Mr. Tsvangirai contended that most of them since he joined the government in February were “actually acts of theft.” Mr. Tsvangirai has been insisting on a halt to the renewed farm invasions for weeks, but he never so specifically exerted his authority to order arrests of the lawbreakers. The test will be whether the police do as he says.
Source: New York Times
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