Modern History Project

"A little learning is a
dangerous thing"

"One of Zimbabwe's last remaining white farmers was strangled and burned to death in an attack inside his home yesterday. Don Stewart, 68, was...one of the last 300 white farmers left in Zimbabwe. His assailants...entered through the roof and strangled Mr Stewart in his bed. Then they covered him with a mattress, doused it in petrol and set him alight... Zimbabwe's summer rains started last week but few crops have been planted. Commercial agriculture has collapsed following President Robert Mugabe's purge of white farmers."

See: London Telegraph (2005-11-28)