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WINDHOEK, Namibia — A southern African regional court ruled Friday that 78 white Zimbabweans could keep their farms, saying the government’s land-grab policy was racially motivated.
The farmers hailed the ruling as a victory but acknowledged that it is unlikely to be enforced amid Zimbabwe’s political and economic crisis.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s often-violent land reform program forced many white commercial farmers from prime farming land. Critics have said it helped turn the country from regional breadbasket into a begging bowl, but the government said the program was meant to benefit the country’s black majority.
