Why border farms are abandoned
Feb 26, 2021
3 minutes
FW ARCHIVE
In 1978, the Zimbabwe War of Liberation meant that many farmers abandoned their farms on the border of Zimbabwe and South Africa to avoid being caught in the crossfire. This article focuses on those who stayed.
The whine of aircraft engines and the crash of bombs brought Andries van der Walt and his wife hurrying from their farmhouse on the South African side of the Limpopo River as the bush on the Rhodesian bank
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