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Shona/English/Nat The leader of the Zimbabwe war veterans, Chenjerai Hunzvi, faces sentencing for charges of contempt of court on Friday unless he can prove that he has taken steps to get the squatters off white owned farms. However the farm invasions continue and there are clear signs from the squatters that they will not heed their leader's calls to leave. The farmers' union says squatters have arrived on ten new farms in the past 24 hours. Forrester Estate is one of Zimbabwe's biggest commercial farms. The 50-thousand hectare estate lies about 150 km (93 miles) north west of Harare. But the future here is uncertain. So-called war veterans are squatting on the farm. They have intimidated, threatened and beaten white farmer Heinrich von Pezold and his black labourers. Once the summer harvest is complete they say they intend to seize total control over the estate and plant winter crops themselves. SOUNDBITE: (English) "They are not going to plough wheat this winter. They are going to finish their crops, then they will go. The next season is ours." SUPER CAPTION: Fidelis Garwe, Squatter Such actions would break last Friday's agreement between the Commercial Farmers' Union and the War Veterans' Association that the squatters can stay on farms. Under the arrangement, the violence must stop and farm work must be allowed to continue. Heinrich von Pezold says that despite insisting that they will use peaceful methods to secure the redistribution of land, the squatters routinely turn to violence and intimidation. SOUNDBITE: (English) "First of all I was assaulted many of labourers were beaten up, after they promised that they had come in peace, they had come to sort out a problem, to make peace and instead of sorting out their people they started beating up the labourers..our wheat production will be severely hampered. We'll do our best to get it in, but as long as those guys are around it won't be easy. And even though nationally it has been said that we should be getting on with our crops, invaders locally made it very clear that we mustn't grow our crops, that we mustn't do anything to for future crops and combined with threats of murder, its very difficult. SUPER CAPTION: Heinrich von Pezold, Farmer The squatters are impatient to win the land they believe is rightfully theirs, by whatever means. SOUNDBITE: (Shona) "We want to plant wheat we want to irrigate crops we hope the government will speed up land redistribution we've been here two months and we've been hoping to get the land by the end of last month. The government must speed up redistribution" SUPER CAPTION: Unidentified Squatter The United Nations last week warned of a potential food shortage in a country already suffering 50 percent unemployment and 70 percent inflation. At least 13 people have died and scores have been injured in the southern African state in the past three months as black squatters have occupied 1,000 white-owned farms. President Robert Mugabe has defended the occupations as a legitimate demand for land reform. But opposition leaders claim he is manipulating public opinion ahead of elections. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/73b96d457ddda0405a2b0b097a6a6283 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork