MICHAEL HOLMES, WORLD NEWS: Zimbabwe is stepping up its seizure of white-owned farms amid reports of new violence against the opposition. Witnesses say soldiers in armored cars beat up an opposition politician and five supporters in Harare. Meanwhile, the commercial farmers union says at least 25 farms have been occupied since last weekend's parliamentary elections. CNN's Stephanie Hallis (ph) reports.</s>STEPHANIE HALLIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For white farmers, Zimbabwe after the parliamentary elections remains a volatile home. In the week after 58 opposition politicians were voted into the 150-seat parliament, President Robert Mugabe has announced his government will go ahead and seize some 800 white-owned farms and redistribute them to landless Zimbabweans under the Land Acquisition Act. John Snyman's family has been in Zimbabwe for four generations. His farm east of Harare has been invaded.</s>JOHN SNYMAN, FARMER: Let's hope the land issue just is something of - that's going to be rectified very soon and we can get on with our lives. We need security here. We can't live like this.</s>HALLIS: Many of the Zimbabwean whites who make up around 1 percent of the country's population are devastated. They had hoped the elections would produce an opposition and a clear majority and that the policy of land seizures would come to an end. In a country with more than 40 percent unemployment, jobs remain the most important issue to many here. The 100,000 whites in the country carry much of the economic weight. But the government says this is more than a land issue. It says that the white Zimbabweans were given its advantages by the former British colonial rulers - advantages still evident today. The government argues issues such as land ownership, wronged in the past, have to be set right. Stephanie Hallis, CNN, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Seizures Of White-Owned Farms In Zimbabwe To Continue