1.   Apparently white farmers are to be offered immediate refugee status, no questions asked.

2.   He is the ninth white farmer killed since Mr Mugabe launched the land invasions nearly two years ago.

3.   The dead include white farmers, black farm labourers and city residents.

4.   The minister of agriculture and resettlement, Kumbirai Kangai, has been trying to reassure white farmers.

5.   This has made Britain happy, since it has not had to pay out compensation to white farmers.

6.   Among them were white farmers who loaned him and his wife, LaVerne, the airfare to Washington for the protest and court appearance.

7.   Another priority, he said, was reconciling the polarized nation by reassuring white farmers and black opposition supporters of their place in the country.

8.   At least four houses were looted and at least two white farmers were shot at, said David Rockingham-Gill, the regional executive of the farmers union.

9.   Attacks on white farmers have been mounting, and some assaults have been particularly brutal.

10.   Attacks on white farmers have been mounting.