31.   Government opponents accuse Mugabe of using land seizures, without compensating the farmers, as a pre-election ploy to garner support and scare off opponents.

32.   In February, thousands of hill tribe members demonstrated in the streets of the provincial capital against land seizures and government restrictions on religion.

33.   Lawyers and court officials fled the courtroom where the hearing on land seizures was to be held.

34.   Likud now appears to have inadvertently caused the cancellation of the land seizure, which it supported.

35.   Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was meeting with PLO leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City on Monday to try to calm the outcry over the land seizures.

36.   Mugabe has described the land occupations as a justified protest against unfair land ownership by whites and has ignored six court orders declaring land seizures illegal.

37.   Mugabe says the land seizures are acceptable in a country where one-third of the fertile land is owned by a few thousand whites.

38.   Opponents accuse Mugabe of using land seizures to improve his diminishing popularity.

39.   Opposition officials accuse Mugabe of using land seizures without compensation to the farmers, as a pre-election ploy to garner support and scare off opponents.

40.   Opposition officials accuse the government of using land seizures to garner support ahead and intimidate opponents ahead of presidential elections scheduled for next year.