Two decades after thousands of white farmers were forced from their land without compensation, a new generation is back to start again
Family after family fled along this dirt road towards Harare as they were evicted from their farms by Zimbabwean war veterans.
The road through the country’s prime, red-soiled land was a front line in Robert Mugabe’s policy of seizing white-owned farms, first implemented more than 20 years ago.
The luckiest farmers were given enough time to collect up their belongings and stack them in the back of vehicles. Others fled empty-handed, chased, often violently, from their farmhouses.
Thousands of white farmers were forced from their land without compensation in areas like this between 2000 and 2005, in a policy Mr Mugabe said was to redress colonial-era land grabs.