The kids were terrified. I had to send them away. I know what these poor Jews felt like with the Nazis. Whatever the outcome of the land dispute, it is causing further economic dam age that Zimbabwe can ill afford. Much of the tobacco crop has been harvested but it has not been treated and will probably not be ready in time for the auctions that bring in much of the country's foreign currency.
Foreign banks are edgy.
Many of the targeted farms are heavily mortgaged to local branches of Barclays and Standard Bank of South Africa. If the white farmers are thrown off, they will default. But the banks can hardly seize the farms when they have already been taken over. In any case, the government's desire to redistribute without compensation has stripped most agricultural land of any value. No one is going to buy a farm in Zimbabwe right now.